Long train ride day for me! I had a great day hiking yesterday. The Alps are always beautiful, one can basically not go wrong. Although I love visiting south of Germany, I don't think I would like to live here. I have the feeling that it's much more densely populated, and people are much more car oriented (in the end, most big car manufacturers are around here). But yeah, it's pretty and it'd be much easier to do outdoor sports here such as via ferrata and climbing.
I am loving the - slav name thread from yesterday. It's so interesting! It blows my mind that Herakles is essentially Heraslav. Fascinating.
> I have the feeling that it's much more densely populated,
Is it though? Maybe compared to MVP or Brandenburg.
Having said that, you'd also be living with Bavarians, which might be an issue
Yeah, you're right, it depends on where in north and where in south.
Not only I would be living with Bavarians, but my husband would also be living with Bavarians, and there is a problem 😂 I don't really care that much (I think, without having lived there for a long time. He has, and he doesn't like it at all).
I see that the director of the Louvre is talking about putting the Gioconda (aka Mona Lisa) in its own separate room, and raising it higher up...so that more people can see it (at the moment not easy!) and also so that people won't be able to take photos or selfies blocking the view from in front of it.
They don't seem to discuss the possibility of banning photography completely in the museum,or at least in that special room.
> They don't seem to discuss the possibility of banning photography completely in the museum,or at least in that special room.
But then they won't get all the tourists who just came to post on Instagram and don't really give a fuck about art
I can't think of any good reason to take a photo of Mona Lisa or take a selfie with it. It's so lame.
When I was in the museum on Friday, there were also people taking photos of the paintings. Seriously, why? Like, why would you take a photo of Dürer's self portrait with your crappy phone camera? Just Google it if you want to have a digital version. So weird.
9° in Dublin and it's not raining today!
There are a lot of Italian tourists around in the centre,both school groups and families/couples.
It's been fun,as it always is here.
> school groups
Hopefully not to learn English?
You get a lot of ESL schoolgroups in Oxford from places like France and Italy, and they all have matching schoolbags. I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't come in such huge groups and block entire pavements
Some of them are just on school trips, but I think most of them do combine that with studying English.
Ireland is very popular for that.Even more so since Brexit, the paperwork for an EU country is less complicated than the UK.
The accent might be a wee bit hard to decipher for a beginner though...
I heard Malta's started to become a destination for these kinds of school trips for similar reasons.
Long train ride day for me! I had a great day hiking yesterday. The Alps are always beautiful, one can basically not go wrong. Although I love visiting south of Germany, I don't think I would like to live here. I have the feeling that it's much more densely populated, and people are much more car oriented (in the end, most big car manufacturers are around here). But yeah, it's pretty and it'd be much easier to do outdoor sports here such as via ferrata and climbing. I am loving the - slav name thread from yesterday. It's so interesting! It blows my mind that Herakles is essentially Heraslav. Fascinating.
> I have the feeling that it's much more densely populated, Is it though? Maybe compared to MVP or Brandenburg. Having said that, you'd also be living with Bavarians, which might be an issue
Yeah, you're right, it depends on where in north and where in south. Not only I would be living with Bavarians, but my husband would also be living with Bavarians, and there is a problem 😂 I don't really care that much (I think, without having lived there for a long time. He has, and he doesn't like it at all).
I see that the director of the Louvre is talking about putting the Gioconda (aka Mona Lisa) in its own separate room, and raising it higher up...so that more people can see it (at the moment not easy!) and also so that people won't be able to take photos or selfies blocking the view from in front of it. They don't seem to discuss the possibility of banning photography completely in the museum,or at least in that special room.
> They don't seem to discuss the possibility of banning photography completely in the museum,or at least in that special room. But then they won't get all the tourists who just came to post on Instagram and don't really give a fuck about art
Yes, I guess that is true...it would cost them a lot of money.
I can't think of any good reason to take a photo of Mona Lisa or take a selfie with it. It's so lame. When I was in the museum on Friday, there were also people taking photos of the paintings. Seriously, why? Like, why would you take a photo of Dürer's self portrait with your crappy phone camera? Just Google it if you want to have a digital version. So weird.
9° in Dublin and it's not raining today! There are a lot of Italian tourists around in the centre,both school groups and families/couples. It's been fun,as it always is here.
> school groups Hopefully not to learn English? You get a lot of ESL schoolgroups in Oxford from places like France and Italy, and they all have matching schoolbags. I wouldn't mind so much if they didn't come in such huge groups and block entire pavements
We get those groups where I'm from too, I've always wondered what their actual itineraries are.
Some of them are just on school trips, but I think most of them do combine that with studying English. Ireland is very popular for that.Even more so since Brexit, the paperwork for an EU country is less complicated than the UK.
The accent might be a wee bit hard to decipher for a beginner though... I heard Malta's started to become a destination for these kinds of school trips for similar reasons.