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    Misconceptions from a Foreigner

    I have finally made a great realization. The large "shanty-towns" outside of Strasbourg and other European cities are actually allotments! While on foreign exchange in France I saw all these like little settlements and being naive I thought they were gypsy shanty towns!!!!! Each allotment had a substantial shed and when I saw the pictures of (Simon's?) shed in the plot thickens, with the potbelly stove, I finally realized. I think it's great y'all have those sheds that are nice enough to have tea in. Much better than community gardens here. My mum had a plot when I was a small, it was right rammed up against the railroad tracks.

    I also love the London Heathrow airport. The signs remind me of Sherlock Holmes!!!
    The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

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    My allotment is right next to the rail lines, and I don't have a shed. I must be a foreigner!?!

    I would dearly love a shed, just so I could spend a bit more time down on the plot "tinkering". As it is, as soon as the rain starts, play stops.

    Heathrow Airport is a nightmare of a place - hideous airport that is a pain in the @rse to get to, and away from. We have far nicer airports, honest.
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    • #3
      Oh my god, that's funny!!

      It'll be my new phrase now "I'm going to potter down my shanty town for a few hours, see you later"
      Shortie

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      • #4
        Ha!!!...Love it!
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        • #5
          Heathrow has a special place in my heart, after all you're not in Europe until the wheels actually touchdown in that place, besides, during a four hour layover it doesn't matter if it takes two hours to go from one gate to the next.

          I swear I had nightmares about being run over by the MetroNorth train, of course I was a child and very impressionable, but all the joking about my dad tying me to the railroad tracks didn't help.
          The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

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          • #6
            Dads are good like that.
            Kirsty b xx

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            • #7
              Heathrow in EUROPE!!! There's a lot of people in the UK wish it WAS in Europe
              I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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              • #8
                See! I am FULL of misconceptions!
                The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it. -John Ruskin

                http://wormsflowers.blogspot.com/

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                • #9
                  But you've got a really cute dog, so we forgive you.
                  Into each life some rain must fall........but this is getting ridiculous.

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                  • #10
                    Lol
                    Last edited by terrier; 17-06-2008, 08:10 PM.
                    I you'st to have a handle on the world .. but it BROKE!!

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                    • #11
                      we live almost under a 'stack' for Heathrow (about 16 miles away) special place is not a phrase often used around here we also live right beside a mainline train into london waterloo, rush hour (from 6am to 9.30!) trains every 6 mins (lovely)

                      At least my 'shanty town' is quieter
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                      Some people feel the rain, others just get wet.
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                      • #12
                        Our allotments are twinned with Soweto!
                        My Majesty made for him a garden anew in order
                        to present to him vegetables and all beautiful flowers.- Offerings of Thutmose III to Amon-Ra (1500 BCE)

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                        • #13
                          Must admit, we went to London for a holiday last year, and I loved looking at the allotments when we went past them on the train. They are a site to behold
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by lzyjo View Post
                            Heathrow has a special place in my heart, after all you're not in Europe until the wheels actually touchdown in that place, besides, during a four hour layover it doesn't matter if it takes two hours to go from one gate to the next.

                            I swear I had nightmares about being run over by the MetroNorth train, of course I was a child and very impressionable, but all the joking about my dad tying me to the railroad tracks didn't help.
                            Sorry I am lost now...what has the wheels touching down in Heathrow got to do with Europe?

                            Europe starts 82 miles south of Heathrow.

                            When the Wheels touch down you are in England.
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                            • #15
                              See for me I love JFK Airport...well loathe might be more the word when queuing up for 2 hours to get through passport control - I love getting out of it anyway, and getting on the funny unmanned train to get to NYC. But I can see where you are coming from.

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