>>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.
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>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.
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>But what do you call our Middle East - which would be India, Sri Lanka and middle Russia. Is that Far East too?
It stops me every time when I see your tag line saying Natalie Portman is an Asian American. I think to most Americans Israel is in the Middle East, even though it's not a continent.
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