Thank you, it also means the busses do not have a uniform color making them harder to spot. Even if it’s a “nice” ad it’s still an ad.

Do you count herbal tea? We have a lot of that in southern Europe. Here’s some from Greece (probably not exported though) https://www.finoherbs.gr/en/product-category/teabags/ This site is very low on details but most of these herbs grow here naturally and they probably do in adjacent countries too.

That works well with bookshops too. On the other hand I haven’t had much luck with local supermarkets/convenience stores.

To be fair that’s probably because you were searching for Carcassonne which you can find pretty much everywhere. The problem with local is finding a store that actually sells what you want.

With clothes for example you can look through every shop in a commercial area and still not find what you’re looking for if it’s not currently in fashion in your country. Second hand shops are very good for this and I have many clothes from the UK and czechia this way. But this only really works for clothes.

The actual solution to that is using your own domain for email which can then be transferred between providers. But yeah changing everything again is annoying.