I totally agree.
Don't get me wrong, Schengen is heaven to my South African
wife.
But on GCEBE I was getting bored by Schengen; crossing in and
out of Holland and Belgium was like crossing in and out of Danish counties. On
some roads we crossed a border without even knowing it. And with the Euro the
border fun is less. The EU officials and governments all claim we are not moving
towards USE, who are they trying to foul?
With GEEBE every (official) border crossing will be a "real"
border, and the unofficial ones daring. I look forward to Ukraine, I already
have my visa. I can already feel the excitement of facing that Ukrainen border
post.
Jesper
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Sent: Saturday, March 09, 2002 8:24
PM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: What's next:
US without an "A"?
Would you really want that?
Here we've got the same
"look" from coast to coast, 50 states with no
overridinhg differences in
personality between them. Sure, monuments,
interesting, geography,
weather, etc., but the same roads, language,
products in stores, the same
stores, gas stations, signage, everywhere
you go. The thing I miss
most since I returned to the US after having
lived for 25 years in Europe
was knowing I could cross a line on
earth, see different money, different
stamps, different mentality,
different roads, experience different logic
in people, different
designs for household items, a variety of stores
found in one country
and not in another, automobiles I'd never seen or
heard of, and on an
on.... the Euro is a giant step towards boredom.
United Europe? I
don't know... The march towards utopian
monotony is in full swing.
Variety sparked my interst in borders - but
when there's nothing
different on the other side, what's going to be the
point in being
interested in it, or many other things, for that
matter?
Len
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BoundaryPoint@y..., "Peter Hering" <hering@m...> wrote:
> Right,
Len - our world's changing fast...
> maybe there will be another US -
without an
> "A" in Europe...???
> Peter H.
>
>
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