Re: Sharing a bike on a trackday?

On Thu, 28 May 2009 16:25:38 +0100, Bear wrote:

In article <MPG.2488bbf441e8d6ef989afc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, ogden
says...
Bear wrote:
In article <787nglF1k6ua0U8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Adrian says...
Bear <bastardDOTbear@xxxxxxxxx> gurgled happily, sounding much like
they were saying:

BTW, is Turkey in "Europe" or not?

They're in the Eurovision Song Contest, if that's any help...?

heh. Nice one.

The thing is, some of the places they *do* recover you from didn't
strike me as very "European" ... IIRC they include Estonia and
Ukraine, and it was only then that there are vast numbers of
countries that I have no idea precisely where they are - in my mind,
they come under the heading of "you know, over there <waves hand in
general direction of western Europe>".

But they cover the Czech Republic, so that's the main thing AFAIC.

Estonia and Ukraine are both, afaik, very much in Europe, being west of
the Urals.

Turkey spans the Bosphorus, with a tiny part of the country on the
European side and the rest on the Asian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe has a handy map.

Where were you yesterday, when you could have made yourself useful?

<looks at map>

See now I would have said that line of countries on the eastern limit
(Belarus, Ukraine, etc) weren't European, when they apparently are.

I blame the USSR.

PS: There's no *way* I would have placed Lithuania there ... I thought
it was *miles* south of that position, somewhere near Serbia. God my
geographic knowledge is woeful.

Well, political maps and geographical maps are often at odd with each
other. Similarly, post office boundaries don't necessarily match
political boundaries.

--
Leviticus 11:10
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