Distance perception

[chickenfeet]

I've just received an invitation to a drinks reception with the new Vice-Chancellor of Durham. Now, this reception is at the University of British Columbia, which is, predictably, in British Columbia which is to say roughly 4500km away, which is only marginally closer than Durham. Do you think they would expect someone from, say, Omsk or Dakar, to pop over to Durham for drinkies? It's the same distance.

Comments

[longpig.livejournal.com]

Haha... So many people just can't conceive of how *big* Canada is. I always get a kick out of it. When I used to work in reservations this came up all the time with people thinking they could just hop over from Toronto to PEI for the day or what have you; nd just the other day, my friend from Ireland messaged me asking how hard it would be for me to come over to Vancouver for the weekend because his brother was in town...

[a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com]

It's the same with the states. OTOH, I'm having a very hard time getting adjusted to the tiny distances between things east of the Mississippi.

[gillo]

And there was me thinking that an invitation to join Durham people for a reception in London was a fair way - it's over a hundred miles, after all...