>Terry,
>may be I'm not up do date.
>I have a clear remembrance of the road signs all the way from London to Ramsgate ferry port. (As far as they point to anything east of Ramsgate.) We have had a big laughter on it.
>I do not really believe that it has to be read as "mainland". This sounds to peculiar to me.
>
>Never mind. EC is talking about Turkey now. It's enough to be close in geographical therms. ::)

Then the signs will have to point to "EUROPE/ASIA" :-)

>
>Agnes
>>>> .. or people on the other side of the channel for that matter!)
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>>>A country that have road signs pointing toward europe must be outside europe. I see no other way.
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>>If you refer to the UK, where are the roadsigns pointing to Europe? What would be the point? all the cars would just drive off the edge and into the sea. I live and work near to a ferry port; the only signs are to the ferry, not to Europe. Besides, any sign that *did* say "Europe" would be pretty useless: one would want to know to which country one was heading, not which bloody *continent" (pointless getting the ferry from Felixtowe - dest: Hook of Holland - if you wanted France). Similarly, in your own country a sign saying "To other parts of Europe" would be useless!
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>>Finally, if there were such a sign, then it would mean "Mainland" Europe