Garlic Smuggling. File this one under Weird…

I’m still feeling my way around, so posts might be eclectic & weird for a while. But this one from the BBC about garlic smuggling touches on a few points I’m interested in. The differences at the political level is one of them. The other is how the Nordic countries are at the same time part of Europe & not. In a sense most Arctic countries are on the side lines – the USA doesn’t really count – & we learn to live on the fence, as it were.