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[gerbie]

no motivation to write.

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[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Had a week skiing with my students in Italy. Came back feeling ill, hence haven't been online much since.

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

How was the skiing?

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Very good. A lot of them learned a lot in a week, luckily I was able to do some fun skiing myself as well.

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

I come from a very flat part of Canada so only the wealthy ski, really. As a result I can hardly do it at all.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

I am from the Netherlands. A tiny country with shares it's highest point (321 mtr, less than 1000ft) with Belgium and Germany. Need I say more?

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

Heh :) Good point. But it is closer and cheaper to ski in Europe. Everything is so much closer together and public transport is so much more functional.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

True, everything is closer. Yet also much more crowded. Travelling can get more complicated because of the masses.

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

I never noticed that myself, but when I lived in Europe I was mostly travelling in a company vehicle. I did notice how difficult it is to park a large van in most European cities. Rome, especially.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

My country is one big traffic jam every morning from 6 to 10, again in the afternoon from 3 to 7. A bit like Rome, but a bit more sofisticated. And as we're all driving on our own, a van is way too big.

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

I watched people use their cars to ram other people's parked cars out of the way to make a parking spot bigger on the side of the Via Appia in Rome.

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Yep, that's Italians for you. Never seen that happen here though. We're too coldblooded to let ourselves go like that.

[sarahcarotte.livejournal.com]

:) just like a lizard

[gerbie.livejournal.com]

Who happen to live in warm countries though, don't see them here either.