07-05-2004, 11:27 AM
Nystul,Jul 5 2004, 11:17 AM Wrote:I'm a bit in the fog on this one. Enlighten those of us from the less-cultured continent. Do Europeans shut off their computers until September or something?Pretty much, yeah.
August is pretty much "ghost town" month in most of the main capitals here. You can go to Madrid or Rome, and in streets bustling with activity during the rest of the year you could walk alone along the middle of it undisturbed, parking spaces plentiful and the place would be totally deserted. Take Paris, for example; it'd take you longer to find a person whose native tongue is French than, say, Chinese or Spanish.
On the other hand, I defy you to find a room in a hotel in the coast of Spain, Italy or Greece on August 15th, or any of the resorts in the Alps ;)
Those who don't do that find cheaper alternatives, but in any case everyone, and I mean everyone, takes Half+ August off around here.