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AI: Well, so that sounds like quite a trip, then, down through Spain...

AS: Oh, yeah. We went to Italy, Spain, Germany, a few towns, Austria, where else did I go? Well, Germany and France, naturally, oh, I went to Switzerland and Netherlands, England, Ireland, yeah. So every chance when I came back I didn't have one day of leave left. I used it all up.

AI: Oh, that sounds great. You really took advantage of that.

AS: And then another thing is, because we were a detachment and we, like an office work, so like either first part of the month or last part of the month were busy, and the other two (weeks) we weren't that busy. So I, I used to take my leaves, you know, the slow, slow two weeks and then, like if I took, on weekends I can get extra days.

AI: So then you would have a long enough period of time that you could go out.

AS: I can make long, yeah.

AI: Go out on trips. Well, this sounds so interesting that you were able to go to these different countries and see the different cultures and come back and, did you come away with any feeling of... did it seem to you that there were quite a bit of differences among the different people, the different countries that you went through that you saw?

AS: You know, not too much of that because I couldn't speak the language, so I didn't get to see too many people.

AI: Right, because it's harder to communicate.

AS: The language, yeah.

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