maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5219 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu
| Message 81 of 123 18 September 2012 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
@stifa - it wasn't a criticism or anything like. Sorry if you thought it was.
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overscore Triglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4563 days ago 23 posts - 38 votes Speaks: French*, English, German
| Message 82 of 123 18 September 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged |
Montreal resident here. It seems we are legion around here..
I am originally from Quebec City, a small, uneventful city about 250 km east of Montreal.
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Coheed Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 4686 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Romanian, Irish
| Message 83 of 123 18 September 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
overscore wrote:
Montreal resident here. It seems we are legion around here..
I am originally from Quebec City, a small, uneventful city about 250 km east of Montreal.
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Quebec City, uneventful?
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6620 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 84 of 123 18 September 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
stifa wrote:
stifa wrote:
maydayayday wrote:
stifa wrote:
I live only three hours away from
Steinkjer, ....
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I live only 3 hours from a lot of Europe. I do like the use of ONLY three hours.
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Okay, ~160 km then. I meant that it takes 3 hours to go there by car. It even takes two
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I'm not even allowed to get a driver's license, thus it might take longer, and I'm used
to a lot of waiting at airports, train stations, etc.. Hence, three hours is "only" to
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I suppose when counting hours, one should specify means :) But if we're counting planes, then the whole world is pretty close.
I love trains! Unfortunately, they don't go everywhere, but I do enjoy the train between Steinkjer and Trondheim (2 hours). But you live way on on an island, don't you? So that must mean a lot of ferries and buses if you don't drive.
For some reason, I do have a driver's license, but I really can't drive.... I always walk or take the train.
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stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish
| Message 85 of 123 18 September 2012 at 11:51pm | IP Logged |
A car ferry (if that's the proper term) (to Garten), 15 min drive (to Brekstad) and an
hour by a fast ferry (to Pirterminalen in Trondheim) is the quickest way to get to
Trondheim.
Where in Steinkjer do you live? In the town, or around Sprova?
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 86 of 123 19 September 2012 at 12:38am | IP Logged |
Brun Ugle wrote:
I suppose when counting hours, one should specify means :) But if we're counting planes,
then the whole world is pretty close.
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Unless you're traveling to the other side of the world and have one or more layovers.
Then you can count in days.
R.
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Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5956 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French
| Message 87 of 123 19 September 2012 at 1:20am | IP Logged |
tommus wrote:
I live only 15 hours driving from Halifax on the east coast, and only 45 hours driving from Vancouver on the west coast. Any language meet-ups I might want to drive over to?
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Oddly enough, the quickest route between your location and Vancouver involves driving mostly through a different country to get here (the slightly smaller country to our south). Driving only through Canada involves adding another 10+ hours to the drive.
Driving through the Rockies is spectacular and is more than payback for all the wheat and canola fields in between.
I was always a big fan of Kingston when I lived in Toronto - it has the nicest people, and it was always our food stop on road trips.
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6620 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 88 of 123 25 September 2012 at 5:24pm | IP Logged |
stifa wrote:
A car ferry (if that's the proper term) (to Garten), 15 min drive (to Brekstad) and an
hour by a fast ferry (to Pirterminalen in Trondheim) is the quickest way to get to
Trondheim.
Where in Steinkjer do you live? In the town, or around Sprova? |
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Right now I'm living in the town on Nordsia, where all the other immigrants live :)
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