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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?
Pic unrelated.
Lived in the UK for a while - Squirrels, and the fact that the church in the town we lived in was built before ANY humans set foot in New Zealand
It's not very common to see squirrels in Japan but they're all over the place in the states. I was hiking in the woods with a group and one of the Japanese people spotted a squirrel and told everyone so they could have a look. Where I'm from maybe you'd point out a deer or rabbit or something (although those are pretty common too), but it's pretty much impossible to not see a squirrel or chipmunk if you go outside.
Damn, that's an old church, I know there are a few still standing from around the Norman conquest
to be fair it wasn't the complete church, it was rebuilt in part in the mid 1700s
it looks like the church is mostly intact from the very early 1300's (first vicar 1309) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Cuthbert%27s_Church,_Darlington.
NZ was first settled about (current data) 1320-1350 (the earliest date that I've seen is about 1280)
Still, something that old, is always special to behold
So who built the church? The emus?
/me tries to understand that comment and fails
Bro you said a church was built "before any humans set foot there". So the people who built the church never set foot there. How did they build the church? Were they levitating?
The church in the town from when OP lived in the UK.
TBF it did take me a moment to parse too.
Thank you. Now that makes sense to me. And I used emu because I didn't know NZ fauna and defaulted to AUS.
Was it that hard? The UK was the subject and NZ was mentioned as the comparison.
and wtf do Emu's have to do with either the UK of NZ
In a list, after an em dash, and you've got four different points in time going on on two islands. It's all technically correct, and there's only the one way to interpret it that makes sense, but "the British town" would have improved readability.
Also, it's a crying shame more people don't know about NZ animals. Some of them are pretty unique.
I had to be the only person in Central Park in NYC excitedly taking photos of squirrels when I was there. They were everywhere.
Even though I've seen plenty of squirrels before I still get excited when I see one, and seeing so many at once is fascinating every time.
I snapped a pick of one sitting upright holding a big nut in his tiny hands, and only after showing multiple people "this cute squirrel with his nut", did I notice that he was proudly displaying a prominent ballsack, at least a third of this fuckers visible body was just...his nuts.