want to travel to where you have never been?
then go to spocania..
a wonderful place where you will feel at home
i fell in love with spocania for the tramways,
aspecially those in armahagge (a city not on berref, but on the other main island)
but there is - ofcourse - much more than tramways
this travel guide is issued as an official guide in a series of many
however spokania is a fantasy nation, on islands in the atlantic
somewhere southwest from ireland, closer to europe than to the americas
check this page to see where it is located

i wrote in the spocania forum (check: 21 feb 2000) about this great woman in armahagge's central station, in fact in the toilet section, where she was directing people to available toilets, as this was greatly decribed in the first book on spocania (unfortunately no longer available)
myu writing was about how this was similarly done with cars a a central square in the hague (the so called 'plein' in my city) - this square now has an underground parking, but in my early driving years, parking was still done at walking surface, and i also remember years of trying to park there with my grandmother who'd always use that 'plein' area to park

there's more on armahagge in spocania: this city can be compared to my home town of the hague
the official capital of spocania is hirdo
hirdo is the capital of spocania just as amsterdam is the capital of the netherlands (however the latter in name only)
in the descriptions of spocania i find armahagge more of a capital of the country, without the title, just as the hague (in holland) experiences this - difference is that the hague has all of the gouvernment buildings and the queens residence, and amsterdam has... nothing, and compared to that hirdo has the nations capital buildings and institutions,
but the residents: this is what counts (and from here my comments on this end...)

spokania has its own language (that's how it started), and every imaginable thing you can think of that makes it a country, even so much as that you really would want to visit it

some quotes, from the later issued: spokanië, berref:

moens islands (p. 79)
in 1948 the government built a bridge connecting the mainland and the uninhabited lokaren
people using this bridge to get to plâ will have to make use of two more ferries (of which the one between ediy and plâ can sail only with high tide)
those from plâ ofcourse would have preferred a bridge between their island and the mainland, however the ways of the civil service is mysterious - which is aspecially valid for the district of tjemp, famous for its neglected infrastructure and its infamous collective punishment [described at another section, ed.]

plâ (p. 81)
[get to this island, and then experience this (ed.):]
the island also has a small inn, where only ale, liqueur and (irish) whiskey is available
produce such as wine or sherry are considered sÿrt-pÿrt (city-people-foolish-things), and in case a tourist asks for a non-alcoholic refresment they usually give him or her a glass filled with sea water
this is meant to be a joke and all guests in the inn will laugh like hell when the ignorant tourist did indeed take a sip from this drink
when the tourist accepts this joke in a sportive way the true refreshment will be given for free (it will always be tomo or mineral water, because all the other drinks are considered, as described above, sÿrt-pÿrt...)

very nice is that a dutch travel books editor actually created a travel guide for the island of berref at spokania; the image at left is from that guide