Adjective Recoil wrote:
How hard is it to get media in Dravian? Is there a Dravian internet community out there?
I actually asked something like this myself*, while asking about where he lives. Tedur's response is below: I can get his to clarify/expound some more.
Tedur Covaç wrote:
Dan,
It was nice to friend you on facebook. Why on earth is there a video of you kissing that man?
You express surprise that we have the internet here in Dravia. Well, I'll have you know that some of the world's finest pornographic websites are hosted right here. Honestly, going abroad, it seems that my country's main export isn't uranium or wine, but cheap porn. Ironically, we don't see much of it here ourselves, as Dravia is still a fairly religious country, even after long years of communism. Still, look at Poland. We've got the Catholics in the north and the Orthodox here in the south. There are still a few Lutherans about, but most of them went back to Germany after the war. And now there's the Muslims, they're back four hundred years after we kicked the Turks out. Still, they left some pretty buildings here in Sojane when they did go. My mother's favourite church here in Sojane actually used to be a mosque, you know.
You asked what Sojane is like. Well. I don't know where to start without sounding like an encyclopedia or a travel brochure ("Visit Beautiful Sojane, where we have ten types of tramp and more!")- I'm not even from Sojane. I actually come from Vàilana, about an hour and half away by bus, out in the hills. That's where the best wine in Dravia comes from. It's a small town, only 3000 people there, and quite rural: the people are peasants and winegrowers. But it is pretty, those old-fashioned houses with their thatched roofs, whitewashed walls and long porticos along the southern wall.
But Sojane. Well, I work in a restaurant called "L'Elefant", which is on Jèlca Square. It's not the best restaurant in the city, but I think it's pretty good. Just to the north is the St Bartholomew's Square, the main square of the city, with the city hall and all that. Right in the middle is that old mosque I was talking about. There's a market there every week, and a fair at the end of August. On the corner of the square where it meets Kings Street is my favourite coffee house, the Caffeine Café. They say they serve about 100 different types of crematura there: most of it comes from out by Serota.
All the government buildings are in the north of the city, not far from St Peter's Square, which is where the Orthodox cathedral is. All of this is in the Old City, inside the old city walls: most of them are still standing, and by day they're a good place for a walk. By night, though, you get junkies and teenagers lurking in the shadows and it's not exactly a safe place to be.
The main campus of the university is just to the south of the Old Town, not far from the bus station. This is also the main nightclub district: if you ever visit Sojane I'll show you the sights! Students everywhere, and we all know how easy student girls are.
From pretty much anywhere in the city, you can look north and see the Mògna, another range of hills where they produce wine. This is where most of the tourists stay, out in the quaint little pensions. The wine they make up there is, frankly, piss, though. Nothing like what we make in Vàilana. The city is right at the foot of these hills, so like everything slopes down to the south. This is handy for me going to work, but a nightmare walking back, especially when the trams stop running at midnight.
Regards,
Tedú
*I.e. I had a prepared post on this already.
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Salmoneus wrote:
(NB Dewrad is behaving like an adult - a petty, sarcastic and uncharitable adult, admittedly, but none the less note the infinitely higher quality of flame)