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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtisimo, post: 2847160, member: 83845&quot;]This is exactly how I feel as well Brian. I usually spend months studying before I take a trip because I feel that it makes it more enjoyable and also shows respect and gratitude to the people there for allowing me to be a guest in thier country.</p><p><br /></p><p>A lot of times I will go into a museum or visit a site and be in awe of something that is either sparsely visited or else being mostly ignored by everyone else. The best example I can think of was in the Athenian Agora museum where everyone only had eyes for the Themistocles ostracon but ignored the Spartan shield from one of the most shocking instances of Spartan surrender in history.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Athenians gloatingly etched an inscription on it that you can still make out.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;[The] Athenians [took this] from [the] Lacedaemonians from Pylos&quot;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]674981[/ATTACH]</p><p>I would never have known about it (it was not well marked/explained) if I hadn&#039;t come across this awesome book by Donald Kagan.</p><p style="text-align: center">[ATTACH=full]674983[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been doing my best to speak passable Croatian but I fear I will unfortunetly have a pretty poor showing at it come game time! Oh well <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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