Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]You only need strong government to declare war. Some of the nicest places I have visited have not had strong government since WW2. Italy and Belgium are countries which have often had such compromised coalition governments that any slightly controversial attempt to change something causes at least one member of the coalition to disagree and the government to collapse. Sometimes it has happened several times a year. Italy and Belgium are certainly great places to eat ;-) FD On 19 Jul, 2011, at 22:02, philippe.amard wrote: > > > Le 19 juil. 11 ? 21:36, Mark Rabiner a ?crit : > >> >> People I know have repeatedly come to the conclusion that having visited >> Europe with Greece on the itinerary the next time they go there they'll >> just >> spend their whole visit in Greece. Two or three people have said this too >> me >> over the years. I've yet to see the place. >> >> When I visited Europe in 1970 we were in Italy and later we found out that >> what all the headlines on all the newspapers said the day we arrived: >> GOVERNMENT WALKS OUT. >> There was not government in Italy the whole time we were there. It was >> anarchy. Nobody cared. >> >> > Belgium hasn't any for over a year, their fries are still the best in the > world, and so are their beers :-) > ph > >> Mark William Rabiner >> >> >> >>> From: Philippe Amard <philippe.amard at sfr.fr> >>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2011 13:05:31 +0200 >>> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> >>> Subject: Re: [Leica] Luis and Steve >>> >>> >>> Le 19 juil. 11 ? 10:18, Nathan Wajsman a ?crit : >>> >>>> I have a hard time thinking of Greece as a proper European country. >>>> They had their glory days, but that was about 2500 years ago. >>> >>> >>> Well, they share a common bed of ancient culture with other Southern >>> European countries at least - which doesn't apply to the whole of the >>> Northern EU. >>> Of course, bribery, tax-evasion, corruption and insiders influence >>> don't exist in any other EU country, apart from France, Germany, the >>> UK, Luxembourg, Italy, Belgium, etc where scandals are scarce and >>> politicians beyond reproach - tongue in cheek; solid. >>> >>> Amiti?s >>> Philippe, father of Alexandre (neither from Macedonia nor known as the >>> Great :-) >>> >>> NO ARCHIVE >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information