The days of smug Europeans sitting
around espresso bars and open - air cafés tut - tutting American stupidity may not be over, but rest assured — insert sound of frosty can of Coors Light
popping, followed by sophisticated guzzling
noise — the days of Americans muttering about European densité have only just begun, at least if recent announcements by BMW and Volvo that they will stop selling station wagons in the U.S. market come to fruition.
All
around me a chorus of celebratory
noises fills the void: the simmering
pop of the coals in the stove, the nautical creak of the whole wooden cabinet, and a faint, high - pitched cheeping from beyond the windows that sounds almost like baby birds.