In parts of Europe it is perfectly okay to stand on
the side of the road and openly solicit.
We in NZ are thinking Papatoetoe Shopping Centre, late at night, after
ten, with the lights out, but NO!
Apparently there is more to be gained by standing on the side of the
road just across the border into the Czech Republic than one could imagine! Also the area around the Black Forest is well
known as a stop for just such a thing.
We have had heaps of laughs in our travels as we are all quietly sitting
in our van, going about our travelling business and Iain pipes up “there’s one”
and damn it, he is right! But we are all
too slow to actually see the poor wretch!
We spotted 3 just inside the Czech border and each time, I had let down
my guard and was too slow to get a photo!
Probably not that you would want them, but proof is everything!!
Apparently the Black Forest (well just a bunch of trees that you can see through to the other side of) is rife with
them, but again, we innocent, naïve New Zealanders miss them thinking they are
just people, dressed poorly and slightly suggestively, or even totally wrong
for the climate, waiting for the bus. It
is more likely one of us would rush out and give them a cardi, or a spare Ice
Breaker because we think they will be getting cold!!
In NZ we travel along and as a car game, we count squashed possums on the
road, in Europe you can travel along counting…….. nah, not going there!
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