> On 2 May 2014, at 23:35, Bruce Johnson <xxxxxx@pharmacy.arizona.edu> wrote:
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>> On May 2, 2014, at 2:39 PM, Timothy Collinson <xxxxxx@port.ac.uk> wrote:
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>> My daughter has chosen to go to university down in Cornwall (about 5
>> hours drive west of me but not actually that far in miles) and it can
>> feel like a different country there.  Heavy accents, strong sense of
>> regional identity, their own flag.  Even some of the language can be a
>> bit different.
>
> As the old joke goes: “Americans think a hundred years is a long time, Britons think a hundred miles is a long way.”
>
> Then again, 5 hours east of me is Texas. Heavy accents, strong sense of identity, their own flag, and the language is a bit different :-)

LOL!  Good point!

Next Balkanized Traveller world I visit, I think I shall push the
'gentle' that I might have gone for before.

tc