-=> On 02-18-19  08:57,  Ward Dossche <=-
 -=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: natives <=-

 WD> There is no fence to scale but the open sea waters are way 
 WD> more dangerous. Tens of thousands have perished. One thing 
 WD> you can say about the Mediterranean ... its fish are well 
 WD> fed.

I can add another personal observation about the Mediterranean.  When I
lived in England in the early 1970s, we took a trip to the "Italian
Riviera".  When we got there, we observed that the Med waters were
salty (no surprise) and muddy brown.  We also observed that the water
that came out of the taps in the hotel looked and tasted exactly the
same. If you wanted fresh, clean water you needed to go to town center
at noon with a container which you could fill from the water truck that
came down from the mountains.  Of course, the other alternative was to
buy the Italian wines.

During the same period of time, we made the mistake of booking a two
week vacation in a Gibraltar condo.  Our plan was to rent a car and tour
southern Spain.  Then we discovered that to get from Gibraltar to Spain
one had to go via Morocco since the border was closed due to some spat
that Spain was having with England.  Fortunately, we got out of the
reservation because of a medical event and trip insurance.

                               Dale Shipp
                  fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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... Shipwrecked on Hesperus in Columbia, Maryland. 00:58:19, 19 Feb 2019
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