To start with, it has to be made clear that I'm a wee bit of a geek. And by wee bitI mean 'pretty much entirely'. My love of travel was ignited by, of all things, a video game. It was the late '90s and I was suffering through a long bout of unemployment. While big parts of my day were spent looking for work, my evenings were largely spent playing an online game that was at the time free. When it was released, it was called 'World War II Online', but now it goes by the name 'Battleground Europe '. It was basically a first person simulator based on the Second World War that focused on using real world physics. This lead to a lot of debate among the players of the game in its forums,
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