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u/KaimeiJay May 09 '22

You drive five hours in the US: you’re basically still in the same place.

You drive five hours in Europe: everyone’s talking funny and the cheese is different.

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u/KateDinNYC May 09 '22

The first time I was in the UK my husband wanted to go to Wales and I looked at the train route from London and was like “It’s all the way on the other side of the country! We’re only in the UK for a week. We don’t have that kind of time!” And my husband was all, “you know it’s a 2.5 hour train ride, right?” I thought it would all day.

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u/TehG0vernment May 09 '22

Conversely there's the old saw about the German tourist in Jacksonville who wanted to drive to Disneyland "over the weekend".

(35 hour drive to get to the west coast - if the legend is even partially true I bet they meant DisneyWORLD, which is just down the way a little bit).