http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/ Writings and whereabouts Sat, 22 Nov 2008 00:19:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-43003 Tomasa Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:31:21 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-43003 Dacias - the only car in the world with the wheels held on with the least number of bolts - three. Pretty scary. Dacias - the only car in the world with the wheels held on with the least number of bolts - three. Pretty scary.

]]> http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-629 Romerican Sun, 23 Jul 2006 11:29:15 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-629 We have that in parts of my country, where we call it "teens in the summertime." We have that in parts of my country, where we call it “teens in the summertime.”

]]> http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-577 Jesse Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:43:42 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-577 Sticking one's feet out the window may not be a mark of refinement, but it does strike me as a far better idea than rolling up the windows and roasting alive, which seems to be the prevailing custom when driving here in the Czech Republic. We're a bit more northerly, though not enough to be significantly cooler this time of year. Sticking one’s feet out the window may not be a mark of refinement, but it does strike me as a far better idea than rolling up the windows and roasting alive, which seems to be the prevailing custom when driving here in the Czech Republic. We’re a bit more northerly, though not enough to be significantly cooler this time of year.

]]> http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-576 Cristian Wed, 19 Jul 2006 18:20:58 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-576 There you go being all pesimistic about your home. But you had indeed introduced one word I haven't used in a while. Ciobanie it often is, indeed. There you go being all pesimistic about your home. But you had indeed introduced one word I haven’t used in a while. Ciobanie it often is, indeed.

]]> http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-575 cristina Wed, 19 Jul 2006 16:07:04 +0000 http://www.owlspotting.com/2006/07/19/dacias-and-sticking-feet-out-the-car-window/#comment-575 ...and the car has to be from Sibiu. In my city we would call that gesture/activity "ciobanie" which could be translated as "shepherdism" as Sibiu is the land of, charming nevertheless, shepherds... …and the car has to be from Sibiu. In my city we would call that gesture/activity “ciobanie” which could be translated as “shepherdism” as Sibiu is the land of, charming nevertheless, shepherds…

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