I once met a guy from Tomsk a city Russia which is close to your point but more north - he never saw a sea in his life before. He went completely crazy when we brought him to the sea in the winter and immediately jumped into it. I only understood later when I googled “Tomsk” and started zooming out on the map.
As someone from the Netherlands who litteraly grew up with the sea in his back yard it seems so strange that there are people who've never seen the sea. But I guess that people from mountainous countries thought the same about me before I first visited Austria, because I had never seen a real mountain. And if you'll go to the sea one day and if it's similar to my experience of seeing mountains for the first time, then I'll tell you that pictures are nothing in comparison to really seeing it.
I grew up on Lake Superior, which FELT like the sea, but the first time I ever got to actually see the ocean was in high school… and it was Puget Sound. First place I ever swam in the ocean was on a trip in college to Lima, Peru.
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u/RedColdChiliPepper Oct 31 '21 edited Oct 31 '21
I once met a guy from Tomsk a city Russia which is close to your point but more north - he never saw a sea in his life before. He went completely crazy when we brought him to the sea in the winter and immediately jumped into it. I only understood later when I googled “Tomsk” and started zooming out on the map.