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Old Posted Jul 30, 2020, 11:13 AM
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Stop 8 - Montevideo, Uruguay

I was in Montevideo for 3 nights, don't really have an opinion about it other than it is quite expensive due to the fact that their sales tax is 22%







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Old Posted Jul 31, 2020, 12:13 PM
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Stop 9 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

I stayed in Buenos Aires for a week and i really enjoyed my time here. Due to severe currency devaluation and high inflation you can get a huge delicious steak here for less than $15 and moving around with the subway is a breeze since a ticket for a one way trip costs 0.20 cents.




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Old Posted Aug 1, 2020, 11:24 PM
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Stop 10 - New York City, USA
The direct flight from Buenos Aires to New York was primarily full of Jewish passengers flying to the USA for Hanukkah celebrations since Buenos Aires has the largest number of Jews in South America. It was my 3rd time in New York City and visiting it is always a pleasure and one could never possibly get sick of this city.



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Old Posted Aug 2, 2020, 12:29 AM
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Really great NYC and BA (top of my bucket list) photos.
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2020, 9:32 AM
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Great pics, really impressed with what an amazing country Chile looks like, both urban and natural.
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2020, 11:33 AM
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^^^ Yeah it's pretty amazing
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Old Posted Aug 2, 2020, 11:34 AM
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Stop 11 - Quebec City, Canada

This was the second time I visited Quebec City, it is a very photogenic city regardless of which season you visit. You can forget about English here since 98% of the population speaks French.







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Old Posted Aug 3, 2020, 2:05 AM
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pallo -- did they still use any of the old subway cars in bs as?

i heard they got rid of those and modernized?

they were the oldest in use in the world i think and very charming.

also, bs as metro is or was one of those weird sa metros, like mexico city, where they often opened the doors while its still moving. freaked me out until i got used to it. ha.
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 10:06 AM
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pallo -- did they still use any of the old subway cars in bs as?

i heard they got rid of those and modernized?

they were the oldest in use in the world i think and very charming.

also, bs as metro is or was one of those weird sa metros, like mexico city, where they often opened the doors while its still moving. freaked me out until i got used to it. ha.
Most of them were new, i got on one which might have been an old model since they had all windows open for fresh air as it has no air conditioning.
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Old Posted Aug 4, 2020, 10:22 AM
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Stop 12 - Montreal, Canada
This was my 3rd or 4th time visiting Montreal. It is quite a nice looking city and the composition of the population is approximately 70% French speaking and 30% English speaking. Unfortunately the institutionalised linguistic racism/discrimination experienced by the English speaking population is rife and the attitude of the provincial government is to pretty much ignore this section of the population as if they don't exist.



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love montreal, glad to see you got there.
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Old Posted Aug 5, 2020, 1:53 PM
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Stop 13 - Brussels, Belgium
Belgium is one of the rainiest countries in Europe so if you visit you are likely to encounter rain at some point. Brussels is not a particularly pretty city aside from its main square which is stunning. Another thing that people don't know is that Belgium is a very divided country as you can see from the map below and the people don't know each other language.





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Old Posted Aug 5, 2020, 4:10 PM
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did you get to go up inside that weird thingy in brussels?

great views i would imagine.
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Old Posted Aug 6, 2020, 10:24 AM
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did you get to go up inside that weird thingy in brussels?

great views i would imagine.
Yes i did go inside the atomium, but unfortunately Brussels doesn't really have a skyline or a photogenic cityscape, the city from above looks like this

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Stop 12 - Montreal, Canada
This was my 3rd or 4th time visiting Montreal. It is quite a nice looking city and the composition of the population is approximately 70% French speaking and 30% English speaking. Unfortunately the institutionalised linguistic racism/discrimination experienced by the English speaking population is rife and the attitude of the provincial government is to pretty much ignore this section of the population as if they don't exist.
Wow, I think you totally missed the point about the history of Quebec, which is actualy super-normal because every minorities are now playing the victim status because they get much more power and influence with their demands. For your information, every year, the percentage of people speaking french on the island of Montréal drop a lot. At least you should reconfigure your perception with the french-canadians that had to protect their language and culture in an english America.
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Old Posted Aug 7, 2020, 10:25 PM
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Wow, I think you totally missed the point about the history of Quebec, which is actualy super-normal because every minorities are now playing the victim status because they get much more power and influence with their demands. For your information, every year, the percentage of people speaking french on the island of Montréal drop a lot. At least you should reconfigure your perception with the french-canadians that had to protect their language and culture in an english America.
oh yeah i know all about the history of course, but one can't deny that many local people are uneasy about going inside a shop and start speaking English because they don't know what reaction they will get... then of course there is the recent issue of French school boards confiscating schools from English school boards so they can turn them into French schools....
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Old Posted Aug 7, 2020, 10:37 PM
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Stop 14 - Ghent, Belgium
Took a day trip to Ghent for a day which is 35 minutes by train from Brussels. The city is very pretty and it has a lot of historic buildings.
Only Dutch is spoken here.


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oh yeah i know all about the history of course, but one can't deny that many local people are uneasy about going inside a shop and start speaking English because they don't know what reaction they will get... then of course there is the recent issue of French school boards confiscating schools from English school boards so they can turn them into French schools....
I live in Quebec City, 2 hours and half from Montreal, and I go in Montréal like 20 times a years. What you said is truly unrealistic. The reality is that french people, in many part of the island, they can't even get serve in french (like its a foreign language), every time they get the same reaction : french? sorry I don't speak it, can I serve you sir? Of course we must ask Canada : do they really want a country with two official language? Formally they said yes. In fact they do everything to not protect the french tongue. In front of that situation, Quebec governement has no choice but to take measures to try to safeguard its culture. Other fact, the majority of french-canadian can speak english and they open to speak it with foreigners like americans. I work in the tourism business and the reason #1 of why the americans comes visit Quebec city is because of the french culture, it's different for them and they like it.

The entire world use english tongue. The complaints of the english people on the island of Montreal are unfounded.
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Old Posted Aug 9, 2020, 10:55 AM
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Stop 15 - Bruges, Belgium
I did another day trip from Brussels and this time i went to Bruges which is 1 hour away by train. They have a beautiful Christmas market here and the architecture of the city is amazing.
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Stop 12 - Montreal, Canada
This was my 3rd or 4th time visiting Montreal. It is quite a nice looking city and the composition of the population is approximately 70% French speaking and 30% English speaking. Unfortunately the institutionalised linguistic racism/discrimination experienced by the English speaking population is rife and the attitude of the provincial government is to pretty much ignore this section of the population as if they don't exist.
I was going to comment on the nice pictures, but the editorial kind of took the fun out of it.

The English-speaking community has its own, publicly funded, schools boards, 3 universities, many hospitals, community organisations, etc. An English speaker can live his/her entire life without speaking a work of French. For a community that represents about 15% of the metro area's population, I'd say they get treated fairly.

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then of course there is the recent issue of French school boards confiscating schools from English school boards so they can turn them into French schools....
These schools, paid by the Quebec government, were almost empty while the French-language ones in the same neighbourhoods were busting at the seams. It just makes sense to utilise underused assets, and to consolidate 2 half empty English-language schools into one.
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