>BTW, that's Central European. We were neither east nor west. The water in my city is a bit yellowish because of all the iron - it was washing down from that curtain that was bobbing above our heads.
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>Central -- noted. My mistake.

Also a matter of physical POV. We call Near East what you call Middle East; but we call the same thing Far East (anything between Malaysia, Mongolia and Bering straits) even though it's farthest edges are in your immediate neighborhood... on the west.

But what do you call our Middle East - which would be India, Sri Lanka and middle Russia. Is that Far East too?