Not only does Poland has not just very beautiful cities, with
Gdanks/Danzig the best, very modern motorways and streets- the same with
airport which should not be our topic now, as I am, when possible, a train and
bus traveler-, the Ukraine one excellent connection only, namely from Kiev to
the cosmopolitan city of Odessa, but are distances not as long as it seems when
actually driving by bus from Lutsk to Kiev and not long at all when after that
driving from Munich, the same with my home city of Bamberg- Germany s largest
world cultural heritage site of the UNESCO-, via France until Spain to make a round
trip there.
Apart from the easy way to travel from the northeast to Cadiz in the
southwest of Europe, it is surprising how with border or states and regions
too, languages and accents still do chance, like the appearance of houses,
looking of the people, the gastronomy, the prices and also the political and
social system, to a huge extend even within the Spain.
Unlike France or Germany every autonomous region there can make its own
social politics that includes migration laws. This latter I expected to be in
hands of the European Union alone and being the same everywhere, at least
within the Schengen countries but it is not and even created by each Spanish
region differently. This and that Spanish autonomous regions differ a lot
concerning their welfare politics, i.e. applying different laws for its people,
was absolutely surprising to me, is almost incredible and, honestly, not fair
as all Spanish citizens should obtain the same help when being in need. In some
regions I see more Latin-Americans, especially from Venezuela, than Spanish
ones that get 800 EUR a month without working, while Spanish in other regions
get nothing and have to bag for money. Regarding this I have a great deal of
information I could provide. So, write me, if you are interested.
Something what travelers to Germany might surprise is that you can enter
the metro or urban trains without any entry control, as it seems to be unique
worldwide- also the Ukraine has entry controls- but get punished hard if they
find you without a ticket or just with a wrong ticket. For me, on the other
hand, it was surprising that the Netherland and France have entry controls for
high speed trains too, i.e. both when entering and when leaving the station as
well, you have to insert your ticket in the machine that the access/exit door
opens. In Spain it is even more complicated to enter a high speed train- they,
and not the French or Germans, do have the longest high speed railway net in
Europe- as there are two access controls where the ticket has been shown,
another when leaving and always your belongings is getting scanned. This even
when one wants to store it in a locker only. This rigid way I feel safer now
when travelling but annoyed me in the beginning, especially when comparing it
with Germany where it is utmost easy to bring a bomb into a urban or midland
train. So, why is it not changed here too? Maybe because most of the terrorist attacks
are committed by the intelligent services themselves, something the other
countries do not know?
MJW
