Oh, the memories. What impressed me most back then was that this was the first time I ever saw an idle animation. If you didn’t move for a while Commander Keen would sit down and read a book 🤯
Hi, we have done this about 20 times. Never had an issue.
It is a great way to see the world as you get to see a real local home, if you have kids they get their own rooms complete with toys and all. You typically find (and should prepare for your guests) a long list of recommendations and local attractions from pharmacies, bakeries, grocers to small local attractions that are not in guide books.
Oh, and accommodation is free. This enabled us to stay in Vancouver for 4 weeks as a young family as we only had to pay for the flights and rental car - yes, European, we get long paid holidays over here (😇).
PS: We‘ve use homelink.org ( not affiiliated) and were happy with their database. But I am sure there are others like it.
As you are from Vancouver Island you should not have any issues finding an exchange.
I hope you find a nice swap and find everything you need in your difficult time.
Even if you would think that were a good thing - which I don’t - there is no business case justifying spending all this money on border controls, impacting travel, increasing congestion and pollution just to ’catch’ 19(!) “illegal” immigrants. Even the numbers don’t add up.
Little story to that point: In 2000 I flew NWA from Europe to the states. That time they still showed the movie on a big screen in the front of the cabin. The movie that day was Gladiator.
The airline did not censor gore and violence even though children were also flying.
But of course there was no nudity to speak of in that movie at all.
TL;DR: “sorry, you are right, I over-simplified”and “don’t be a dick on the Autobahn”
Ok, you are technically correct, which is - as we all know - the best version of correct. 😎
I admit to gross over-simplification on my part. This is the internet after all.
My point was to not underestimate the weight of the advisory speed limit. Living over here at a stretch of Autobahn with no posted speed limit I have seen my fair share of reckless speeding and felt compelled to make a point as the image projected by many ‘influencers’ is that anything goes on the Autobahn.
Some more details for the three people still reading this:
Courts over here in good ol’ Germany are pretty clear that paragraph 1 of the German highway code lays out the guiding principle of traffic and has to be followed at all times:
[…]
Participation in road traffic requires constant caution and mutual consideration.
(2) Anyone taking part in traffic must behave in such a way that no one else is harmed, endangered or hindered or inconvenienced more than is unavoidable under the circumstances.
[…]
(Translated by myself using deepl.com)
[…]While travelling above the advisory speed limit is not illegal per se, it may be negligence per se and liability for any collisions that occur as a result of traveling above the limit can be placed partially or entirely on the person exceeding the advisory speed limit.[…]
If you go faster than 130 km/h you are always allotted a certain percentage of fault in Germany.
You don’t have the right to speed if you are endangering others.
Came here to say the same.
They are worried about the Iranian flag which has a lion in front of the sun.