Subj : Re: Screaming into the void To : Adept From : poindexter FORTRAN Date : Fri Jan 02 2026 12:18 pm -=> Adept wrote to Nightfox <=- Ad> In Germany, I live in a mid-sized city, that's a fairly-comfortable Ad> longer train ride (well, maybe multiple trains, depending) to Essen, Ad> Cologne, Bonn, and if going for more than 2 hours, Frankfurt, Berlin, Ad> Paris, and Amsterdam, among others, aren't too far away. Exactly! We're looking to retire to the English country, far enough from London that commuters wouldn't want to live there. I'm looking forward to taking the train to Scotland, the Cotswalds, or taking a short hop in an airplane to France, Spain or Italy - something that would be a multi-thousand dollar, 10+ hour flight for a family of 4. Oh, and Amsterdam! I've never been. And Sweden - I have relatives there. Ditto for Germany, my father's family came from a town in the south of Germany, would like to visit there, too. It would be so much easier without that ocean in the way. --- MultiMail/Win v0.52 * Origin: realitycheckBBS.org -- information is power. (21:4/122) .