Request/Two General HP-Related Questions... (from the main list)

[Amy Z]

> David:
> > You sound like Arthur Weasley ('It's amazing the way the English 
> > trains stop for ten minutes just outside the station.  So 
> > *ingenious*...')

Ebony:
 
> LOL!  Yeah, it's tourist syndrome.  I'm sure if I were British and 
> lived anywhere near one of these tourist traps, I'd either go on 
> holiday or retreat into a cubbyhole until September.  

I explained to David off list that the state of public transportation 
in the US is such that your astonishment is not astonishing.  The 
concept of a train actually stopping more than a couple of times a 
day at any town smaller than New York City . . . Wow!

I give you words of wisdom from a friend of mine who was in India 
with me and indulged in bhang (a form of marijuana that you eat)--
replace "Varanasi" with "London" and "eating bhang" with "drinking a 
few pints" and you'll get a good piece of advice.

When in Varanasi,
After eating bhang,
Remember to look RIGHT
Before crossing the street.

Looking forward to reading Ebony's I Drove on the Left Side and 
Survived stories,
Amy Z