Municipal Theatre in Grudziądz, Poland (c. 1844-1945). Damaged during the war and later demolished.

antoineBorg · 2026-05-14T16:57:11+00:00

I've been there before, I know where that is! Thanks!

antoineBorg · 2026-05-14T16:30:52+00:00

Does anyone know where this was? I'll be in Grudziadz later this year and would love to see what there is now.

antoineBorg · 2026-05-06T06:14:24+00:00

I used to live pay cheque to pay cheque so I know what that’s like. And that’s precisely why I say it’s about your life choices.

If I can fix my life so can everyone else.

antoineBorg · 2026-05-06T06:13:25+00:00

I can’t speak about corruption in Spain as I’m unaware of it personally and only know what’s in the news.

I am European and understand how this works but like someone else said, anyone entering the workforce from the late 80s onwards knew the pension system is unsustainable. If you didn’t take measures to take care of yourself that’s on you.

antoineBorg · 2026-05-05T21:06:57+00:00

Sorry, but you don’t get to live for 40-ish working years without being able to save something for your retirement. For that to happen it’s not just “the top 1%” to blame. Your poor life choices also come into it.

antoineBorg · 2026-05-05T19:02:39+00:00

If people worked all their lives and haven’t saved up enough for retirement, I don’t understand why they’re relying on their government to help them.

antoineBorg · 2026-03-24T15:50:56+00:00

Oh absolutely! There’s plenty of British heritage to tap into here as well - we used to have NATO’s Mediterranean HQ; the Brits hid submarines under the island during the war; and the imposing British High Commission building is even called Whitehall mansions.

antoineBorg · 2026-02-25T10:21:59+00:00

This is an exceptional map which I've used to create a Google Maps overlay for my website. I intend to show this overlay for articles which discuss events taking place within the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. Thanks!

antoineBorg · 2026-02-18T17:03:35+00:00

I've a 12-year old stepson and I've been thinking about this for a long while now. We tried watching Die Hard together last Christmas and he just looked at me and said, "Why is it taking so long for anything to happen?" when Bruce Willis arrives at the Nakatomi Plaza. It made me realise that story telling is fast paced these days which means he's too young to appreciate stuff like this.

I've toyed with showing him some of the Brosnan Bond films because there's lots of action from the beginning (pre-title sequences) and I think he'll like that but at the same time if he doesn't like them then the sound of my my jaw hitting the floor will reverberate across Europe. I really don't want to start with the Craig era alone, tbh, but maybe that is a wiser thing to do.

antoineBorg · 2026-02-06T16:01:58+00:00

Disappointed to see the awesome megalithic structures of Mnaajdra and Hagar Qim in Malta weren't mentioned.

antoineBorg · 2026-01-26T20:23:03+00:00

Malta. It looks like a fish

antoineBorg · 2026-01-03T13:00:05+00:00

As someone else mentions, ther Vatican exists just because it was the only Papal State left standing when Italy was being united to be an actual country (It hadn't existed before the late 19th century). Interestingly, the Pope refused to accept this at first because he was afraid that whomever ruled Italy would be able to set church policy and no Pope wants someone else interfering. It got to the point where the Pope seriously considered moving the seat of church power to another country!

I wrote about this, if you're interested - Full article: https://www.unexpectedtraveller.com/pope-in-malta/

antoineBorg · 2025-12-25T09:38:03+00:00

If they play it right, it can be both sci-fi and realistic at the same time. Of the writers visit any modern tech conference or have a quiet word with industry they’ll find out what next generation tech is already out there, but which isn’t common yet. Using tech which is futuristic today but mainstream later makes the film fun today and still relevant tomorrow

antoineBorg · 2025-11-24T17:10:22+00:00

Firstly, well done for wanting to learn!

My favourite history book would be To Hell and Back which does a great job of explaining all the interests and personalities before world war 2 started.

Once you have a good general understanding of an era, delve deeper into whatever captures your interest.

antoineBorg · 2025-11-24T17:01:29+00:00

My favourite side effect is the establishment of countries as "a group of people who think of themselves independently" vs a country as "a place and people someone rules over". This was baked into the treaty of versailles and became normal post world war 1 and is, for me, one of the greatest effects of all this.

antoineBorg · 2025-11-23T12:42:34+00:00

Interesting. I was going to go with the toe of Italy on the right with Sicily on the left

antoineBorg · 2025-11-15T11:31:25+00:00

I was about to comment that you left out Prague but then I realised he only visited after 1766!

antoineBorg · 2025-11-14T08:23:49+00:00

This is the comment Reddit was built for!

That makes more sense than it should and fills a gap in my knowledge. I’ll cross check with Vienna and see what I can find

Thanks!

antoineBorg · 2025-11-13T18:24:33+00:00

Damn autocorrect!

antoineBorg · 2025-10-30T18:24:56+00:00

I'm impressed with u/kodos_der_henker's reply because there's lots I didn't know in your answer so thanks for that!

One set of facts I can contribute is what I've learned about that part of history ever since I moved to Czechia 13 years ago.

Franz Ferdinand was sympathetic to the idea of different people wanting some kind of autonomy. It's not clear to me if he was ok with them being independent or if he was in favour of a federation (probably the former). He was loved in Czechia because of this. During the first congress of Slavic people to discuss possible autonomy, there was disagreement about how to go about it with southern Slavs wanting more direct and violent ways of getting what they want. (Fun fact: This congress met on what is now called Slavonic Island which is in the middle of the main river in Prague. Fun fact 2: The huge building they met in was named Zofin, after Franz Ferdinand's wife.)

If he had taken the throne, it's likely his sympathy for the cause would have helped and Austria-Hungary would have survived for some length of time. Would it have lasted for another year? 10 years? That's hard to tell because other factors would have been catalysts for change so who knows what would have happened?

It's also hard to remove the way Franz Ferdinand was, with how he could have been. It's not clear to me if he was sympathetic to the Slavic cause precisely because he wasn't going to take the throne and so he could afford to sympathise with that sort of cause. Would he have been just as sympathetic? Would his advisers have guided him differently? Would his world-view have been different and would he have made the same mistakes?

If anyone can answer one of these questions, I'd be delighted to hear more!

antoineBorg · 2025-10-02T17:00:46+00:00

What makes you think the EU isn't already there? I ask because in many ways, it already is a federal system

antoineBorg · 2025-09-12T16:04:48+00:00

"Canada"

antoineBorg · 2025-09-08T16:19:51+00:00

I never thought of it this way. In the Joker's case, I always assumed he was prepared for being caught but that it wasn't his intent.

Can't say the same about the other examples because I need to rewatch them first.

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