I'm seeing this tomorrow! Also, turns out there's a surprising number of British tourists in Munich! Heard a british family talking about how squirrels lose their tails and regrow them as a defensive mechanism yesterday while I was walking along the river. Promptly pretended to be German so I didn't have to interact with them.
Yup, but they were very specific that it was squirrels. And natural, not human influenced. Hence the abandonment of my national identity in an attempt at self-preservation. Edit - Also, the concert was genuinely moving. Never been to a live orchestra performance before, gonna have to try and do it again some time.
I was on Tenerife (an Island) and brits asked me which way the ocean was. another one asked me if we were in the mediterranean, we were not. there were some birmingham people too who were under the impression that the Netherlands had a population of "a thousand" and who tried to convince an Irishman that the Republic of Irelnd was part of the UK. ( he was not convinced and pretty offended) sooo yeah, your experience seems about right.
It's a tad annoying to me as to just how believable a lot of those are. Most could just be attributed to straight up ignorance of basic geography, but the RoI one is particularly bad. There's really no excuse for not knowing what is and isn't part of your own country.
"Yes" Also, to be fair, that one is understandable if you're looking at, say, Pilot Whales, or Beluga's, where the boundary can feel a bit blurry. Less of an excuse if it's just something like a Right Whale, though.
