Who likes looking at maps?

[ursus arctos]

Hotels and other tourist accommodation in Italy and Switzerland are particularly likely to have converted to Euro standard two prong plugs.

[San Bernardhinault]

The South African plug feels even more substantial and over-engineered than the UK one. It feels like you're using something from the 1930s.

[NHH]

On the design of the British plug

[3 Colours Red]

Right... who had NHH on the "who'll post the Tom Scott video" sweepstakes?

[NHH]

It's a great video!

[3 Colours Red]

It really is - that's why it seems to get posted every single time we discuss plugs.

[Guy Profumo]

Second greatest video he committed to YouTube

[Discordant Resonance]

Per capita, Ireland has a relatively large Indian community by European standards:

[Sporting]

Right... who had NHH on the "who'll post the Tom Scott video" sweepstakes?

Here's another of his:

[Antepli Ejderha]

[Gangster Octopus]

Genuinely surprised that there are worse regimes than the UK within Europe. It's not good, is it.

[Antepli Ejderha]

I wonder what Turkey's was before the coup attempt?

[Discordant Resonance]

Type in a train station in Britain and most of Europe (though much of the Balkans seems absent), and this tool will give you the connections.

[Discordant Resonance]

As well as the Balkans and Baltic States, rural Spain has been particularly affected by depopulation, so much so that a new political party has been formed on that basis:

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

Aren't there places in the interior of Spain literally offering bribes to people to come and move there, and by (veiled inference) shack up with their daughters, to stop them leaving?

[Sporting]

Aren't there places in the interior of Spain literally offering bribes to people to come and move there, and by (veiled inference) shack up with their daughters, to stop them leaving?

Why not shack up with their sons, too?

[Sporting]

More seriously:

https://english.elpais.com/spain/202...ied-spain.html

[Sporting]

And:

https://english.elpais.com/economy-a....html#?rel=mas

[Rogin the Armchair fan]

And indeed the embedded link

https://english.elpais.com/society/2...-in-spain.html

[Evariste Euler Gauss]

Interesting divergence between Corsica and Sardinia

[Discordant Resonance]

It seems Corsica has drawn significant immigration from the Maghreb in recent decades, following on from the pieds-noirs previously.

[ad hoc]

The regions in that map seem kind of arbitrary

[ursus arctos]

I think that they are NUTS-2 regions, which Eurostat likes to use for such purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenc...for_Statistics

That would mean the 41 counties plus Bucharest for Romania, for instance.

[ad hoc]

I think that they are NUTS-2 regions, which Eurostat likes to use for such purposes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomenc...for_Statistics

That would mean the 41 counties plus Bucharest for Romania, for instance.

Ah so there must be a significant lack of divergence such that it looks like there are only about 15 regions here

[ursus arctos]

Yes, that is even more true for Poland.

One gets a better sense of the number of regions surveyed from Germany, which makes me wonder if the Germans report the relevant data with greater precision.