Questions

William wrote on Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0100:

cpmac wrote:
On Oct 1, 7:07 pm, mikeos wrote:
Hackamore wrote:

2) no european city of any size is car-free though there
are some small "villages" that are almost kinda sorta
"car-free"...
Do islands count? there isMontSt.Michel, 4 km² island,
Bretagne

The Isle of Arran, North Ayrshire.

and of course The Island of Sark, Channel Islands, UK, where
the only forms of transport permitted are horse-drawn
vehicles, bicycles, and tractors

Mont st Michel is in NORMANDY
Th eriver Couesnon is the boundary and it flows to the West
of MSM so it's in Normandy.

The city of Sienna in Italy doesn't allow cars during the
hours of daylight.

There's a walled town in Southern France (St Paul de Vaunce?) that is
walled and the gates are too narrow for cars.

Didn't we go thro this before? Zermatt in Switzerland is car free and I
don't think I saw cars in San Gemignano in Italy. There are a number of
small towns in Switzerland that don't allow cars or have no connecting
roads.

Actually, a Google search on
"car-free" towns
produces a number of hits.


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On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0100, William Black
wrote:


The city of Sienna



That's "Siena," not "Sienna."


in Italy doesn't allow cars during the hours of daylight.


And that depends on *where* in Siena you are.



There's a walled town in Southern France (St Paul de Vaunce?)


And that's Saint-Paul de Vence.


that is
walled and the gates are too narrow for cars.


And the whole village is tiny.

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Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0100, William Black
wrote:


The city of Sienna



That's "Siena," not "Sienna."


in Italy doesn't allow cars during the hours of daylight.


And that depends on *where* in Siena you are.

Inside the walls.

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William Black

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The answer given by Englishman Richard Peeke when asked by the Duke of
Medina Sidonia how many Spanish sword and buckler men he could beat
single handed with a quarterstaff.

On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:22:15 +0100, William Black
wrote:

Ken Blake wrote:
On Sat, 17 Oct 2009 18:35:05 +0100, William Black
wrote:


The city of Sienna



That's "Siena," not "Sienna."


in Italy doesn't allow cars during the hours of daylight.


And that depends on *where* in Siena you are.

Inside the walls.


No, that's not correct. In some of Siena inside the walls, cars are
not permitted. In other parts they are.

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Ken Blake
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