Spidey said: Clowd I keep thinking you are Rain, and wondering why Rain is posting so sweetly
Murasame said: Genome is still alive? Holy fuck.
Blayze said: Onto advice, I'd say you couldn't have picked a safer place than Finland for your first trip. From my experiences with Scandinavians (never been to Finland but been to Denmark and knew a couple of Swedes at uni), they all speak scarily good English. Puts the broken French and German that Brits can speak a little to shame when a lot of our neighbours speak fluent English from a fairly young age.
Blayze said: Anyways, always surprises me a bit that travelling abroad is seen as as something out of the ordinary in America, probably one of the biggest differences between there and the UK, as I'd wager that the majority of people here travel abroad annually.
Spidey said: some places even have random encounters
Zubis said: To be fair in Europe you've got at least 10 countries within 1000 miles travelling distance. In the U.S you've got what, Mexico Cuba and Canada as your closest neighbours?
Spidey said: Europeans travel to North America and South America as much as they to do to other counties in Europe, I don't think its the distance
It's become a pain in the ass to engage in international travel (cost, passports, visas, travel advisories, customs, etc) compared to travel with the US