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Sent: Monday, December 02, 2002 4:29
AM
Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Re: St Pierre et
Miquelon
when i was last in st pierre circa 1965
most
international traffic still came & went by passenger ferry
thrice
weekly to & from the port of fortune newfoundland
across a passage not
for the faint of heart or weak of stomach
& notwithstanding the
perpetual fog & drizzle
most domestic traffic whizzed around the hilly
town by mobilette
an awkward hybrid between a motor scooter & a
bicycle
also requiring considerable hardiness & courage to
operate
to avoid slowing down at the many street intersections
which
might necessitate strenuous peddling to regain speed
riders simply crossed
their fingers & signalled their right of way
by ching ching chinging
on their little bells as they whizzed thru
while pedestrians scurried in
all directions
it was all this whizzing & chinging & near
misses in the fog that
characterized the distinctive local atmospherics in
those days
oh yes
all traffic was supposed to keep right
de
jure
but de facto it didnt much matter whether you kept right or left
or to the middle
as long as you dodged well
so just as at bp
today
there was never any need to apologize for being off point
since it
was just assumed that everyone was equally sovereign
& might do by
divine right whatever they liked at any time
of course this didnt make
them all multi sovereign pointers
but it did make them all right
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In BoundaryPoint@y..., Dallen Timothy <dtimothy@a...> wrote:
>
Doug et al,
> I had an amazing opportunity to visit St Pierre et
Miquelon
(SPM) three
> years ago to conduct some research on tourism
development.
It's really a
> fascinating little place, which is
proudly French but borrows
much from
> Canada. The 'border' crossing
between Canada and SPM was
interesting,
> especially since only 13
people were on the same flight I was
on. It was
> clear entering SPM
that I was not entering the EU! Strange
setup with its
> own
entry/border stamp in the passport, etc. It is VERY
distinctively
>
European French, and they are offended by ignorant tourists'
perceptions
> that they are somehow politically related to
Quebec.
>
> Dallen
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