I've only been abroad one time, and there were little gecko/lizard things everywhere, climbing up walls and scurrying across roads, and nobody cared. I was constantly fascinated but to the locals they're just kinda there.

Bonus question to anyone who visited the UK - was there anything that fascinated you but I'd be taking for granted?

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[–] 49 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I grew up in Portsmouth, England. Some my friends would come to school from the Isle of Wight on the hovercraft service. We all thought the hovercraft was pretty cool, but I only recently found out that it's the only commercially operated hovercraft in the whole world.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is it still operating? For some reason I thought it stopped quite a while ago. Or maybe that's the one that used to cross the channel.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    I grew up in Gosport and enjoy the looks I get when describing that we needed to get a ferry across the harbour if we wanted to go to a club like Walkabout. I hear the overnight ferry stopped running so you're screwed trying to get home late now.

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