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Our coastline is about 100 km from the UK coast line, but luckily for us there is salt water between us, therefore I don't have the footwell problem.Its the same for me here in the Borders. I can’t pretend we are a big country though. I think I’m right in saying that nowhere in the uk is more than 70 miles from salt water.
Distances are indeed very relative.
When my ex Brazilian wife, mother of my kids arrived in Belgium in 1985 for the first time "out of her huge country", we landed in Brussels airport. My parents picked us up at the airport, after about 18 months without seeing me.
I told her: here is Brussels. After about 40 minutes I told her: we arrived in Ghent. And then she asked: "Oooh, did we already leave Brussels?"