Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2008/01/11

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Belgium (WAS: New topic - what makes "it" newsworthy?)
From: nathan at nathanfoto.com (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Fri Jan 11 22:57:23 2008
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Philippe has just summed up some of the reasons why I think that of  
all the countries where I have lived, I consider Belgium to have the  
best overall quality of life (I have not yet lived in Spain long  
enough to include it in the comparison).

Nathan


On 12-jan-2008, at 2:54, Philippe Orlent wrote:

> I ?m Belgian, and the essence of that is a kind of 'intuitive  
> western polyglotness': linguisticly we have Indogerman, but also  
> Southern European influences, both very often combined with a  
> classic education (intensive Latin and Greek). It's quite unique  
> really. So we might have ridiculous jurisdiction, a laugheable  
> government, an opportunistic nature, and whatever other city myth,  
> but in languages we do excell. And in cuisine ofcourse ;-)
> Anyways.
>

Nathan Wajsman
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