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it comes to dog poop, it's a big ask
on a hot day when you are 100 miles
from home!

Another odd thing is that you rarely
see any dog poop either in the park
or on the streets. There are however Each morning I would smuggle some
toilet bag stations everywhere and tasty treats out of the hotel breakfast
everyone seems to share the bar in my napkin (and I don't think I
responsibility for highway hygiene. was the only one), and go to find my
Part of the culture seems to be that friend. Now he had obviously put the
if you spot a dog pooping you bag buzz around and told his mates. They
it and bin it in one of the many bins would sometimes await my arrival
provided which are regularly and calmly file past to receive their
maintained by the authorities. At sausage or slice of ham or cheese.
night time the main streets are all They were mostly polite with only a
washed down with dozens of water few snatchings but there was clearly
bowsers. a hierarchy. I was touched when one
morning as I was making my way
An interesting observation following back to the hotel for yet another
our extensive motorhome European shower, I noticed an elderly lady
adventures is how many litter bins who had adapted some sort of a
are provided. Strange contrast to wooden pram-like carriage from what
Britain. It’s almost a rarity and if you looked like it might have started its
are ‘lucky’ enough to spot one of life as a pallet. It had been fitted
these things, they are often full to with ill-matched pram wheels and had
bursting as few councils see emptying a sun umbrella mounted on a rather
them a priority. Is it just a culture flimsy steering device. In this was
thing I wonder or just me irritated at
her dog! Nobody turned around
being told by under-funded councils for a second look except me. I have
to take my own litter home? When
been fortunate to have travelled a lot
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