[SunkenCiv]

It’s startling how old some of the ordinary structures are in Europe, in particular compared to here.

[Tainan]

Yeah. Its really old there...;)



On a less wise-ass note, I used to live part of the year in a small village, puebla blanca, in SE Spain. Built on a small rock mountain about 1/4 mile from the Med. White houses tumbling down from the old central square which had an old castle on one side. It was really a run-down affair.
But a neat thing I noted was the stone entrance ways to the old houses. Stoops is what they were - step on the stone to open the door and go in the house kind of thing.
I began to notice that many of them were really worn down. And these were solid stone...carved rock. It was upon noting and thinking about that stone being worn down by human foot traffic that I really began to appreciate how old those houses are.
Many had the same families, different generations of course, living in them for 250-300 years. Pretty cool I thought.

Of course they upgraded the amenities during the years...electricity and indoor toilets and plumbing. A lot of them still kept goats in the basement or ground floor...but hey...they liked it.

[colorado tanker]

I think many Europeans are amused by what we consider to be “historic” districts here.