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Fun fact, IKEA funded the brutally repressive Romanian secret police.
To be fair, those churches had a lot of loot, and priests give great XP.
The Italian restaurant is there because no-one could stop the Normans before they reached Sicily.
They just simply conquered until they found good food, then stopped.
I was in Copenhagen earlier this year and the most striking thing about visiting was how many people there were with young kids pushing prams around. ~~Would need to examine the statistics to see if this is actually true but I wonder if the fertility rate is higher due to a better social policies / financial support for families.~~
Edit: Have just looked at the rates on the wikipedia demography page for each country. It's higher in the UK 1.61 vs 1.55. Maybe the visible difference is due the amount of maternity/paternity leave being offered by employers.
Ahhh, Lindisfarne, good times.
Nobody expects the ~~Spanish~~ Scandinavian inquisition!
The other time Scandinavia visited:
Hell yeah!!!