EuroBillTracker

a very clever way to teach children to get rid of stereotypes !!

groentje wrote:You're right, for the smarter people. The people who are really dumb wouldn't have placed flamenco in Spain at all. Or would have thought Spain lay somewhere in Northern Africa. Ignorance is widely and evenly spread all over the world, unfortunately...

This reminds me of something that took place 24/25 years ago. I was a teen and living in Miami. I wanted to phone collect to Portugal, so I pick up the public phone near the corner of the Apartment building I was living in (and yes back then pay phones where everywhere, you didn't need to walk more than a block to find one or two of them...) and dialed 0. The conversation went on like this.... AT&T good morning how may I help you, Hi I want to place a collect call to Portugal the number is... Sorry umm where?... PORTUGAL..... More silence.... Oh yes Portugal right next to Peru? Right? NO PORTUGAL, EUROPE on the left side of Spain... Europe you say, are you sure? After this question I hung up the phone, let's be serious this was AT&T the Belgacom/Portugal Telecom of the USA back then. Classic American education

European geo-literacy is a bit overrated, though. Let's be honest: Portugal is a tiny country, not very important in the world politics. How many among the educated ebtists can pinpoint all countries on the map which are similar in size to Portugal? Who among us can locate Azerbaijan or Liberia? OK, most of the educated people will know the continent they're in, granted, but not much more than that. And I bet most European call centre assistants won't have this level of geographic awareness either.

I should be able to do that, but will definitely start failing when we're talking about the Caribbean or Pacific Island nations. Or some of the "smaller" countries in central Asia (often bigger then imagined with our Euro-centric atlases, where the whole of Asia is compared to the whole of Europe...) And it used to be a specialty of mine, so I could imagine it's not as easy for most people.

Antes que o post caia no esquecimento, lembrei-me de mencionar aqui o pequeno tutorial que fiz para a ferramenta CTT para os CP. Obviamente que aquilo aprende-se bem "mexendo", mas já que está feito, lembrei-me que seria eventualmente útil um link para lá na primeira página deste tópico.

a question, please: in the following list, the flag of Sintra is ok
http://pt.eurobilltracker.com/profile/? ... tab=5&rc=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Yep and apart from Lisboa, it will be the only one that it is correct, as all the other municipalities have the flag of Lisboa instead of the correct one.

Yes, it is, but a few of the others are not. Each municipality has its own official flag. When "blank", not inserted, EBT displays the District flag.

http://www.cm-sintra.pt/concelho/histor ... a#bandeira" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mico wrote:a question, please: in the following list, the flag of Sintra is ok
http://pt.eurobilltracker.com/profile/? ... tab=5&rc=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Just booked a short holiday in May: 10 days of relaxing in Carvoeiro

Marco1970 wrote:Just booked a short holiday in May: 10 days of relaxing in Carvoeiro

Cool!!! Enjoy!!!

Too far to o mini meeting

CarlosManta wrote:Yes, it is, but a few of the others are not. Each municipality has its own official flag. When "blank", not inserted, EBT displays the District flag.

http://www.cm-sintra.pt/concelho/histor ... a#bandeira" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

mico wrote:a question, please: in the following list, the flag of Sintra is ok
http://pt.eurobilltracker.com/profile/? ... tab=5&rc=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

good now all the 16 flags of the Municìpios are shown

hi guys, I have a prayer
if you remember, I took part to the WEBTM 2014 in Lisbon and, for a EBTourist, it is very difficult to find the right (or better) zip code to use in inserting banknotes from Lisbon. So I brought home all the 76 banknotes I collected during WEBTM 2014 in Lisbon and, within two following days, I tracked 1.205,00 euros from 21 different places=21 different zip codes.
Now I'd like to find tracker(s) interested in checking the zip codes I used in inserting banknotes
do you prefer I post my questions on this thread or in this other one
happy Easter and bye

[quote="mico"do you prefer I post my questions on this thread or in this other one [/quote]
That other one, please.

Can anybody help me? Where am I going?

http://www.quinta-do-paraiso.pt/pt/index.php

Is the town Carvoeiro or Lagoa? Is see some hits with http://nl.eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=69647767 Praia do Carvoeiro.

And what's the postal code? Just 8400 or 8400-558?

Thanks!

Marco1970 wrote:Can anybody help me? Where am I going?
http://www.quinta-do-paraiso.pt/pt/index.php
Is the town Carvoeiro or Lagoa? Is see some hits with http://nl.eurobilltracker.com/notes/?id=69647767 Praia do Carvoeiro.
And what's the postal code? Just 8400 or 8400-558?
Thanks!

Well, after some Wikipedia research I suppose that Praia do Carvoeiro is the same as Carvoeiro and Lagoa is the municipality.

But...what postal code should be used?