A good example is the main train station - a concrete monstrosity that hardly evokes the romance of travel.

Amid all the strip lighting, computers and concrete you can be lucky to find much more than a few shrubs planted between car parking spaces.

I wish I knew exactly where or who I heard this before, but concrete is much tougher on the joints than asphalt.

I have told them that I run in the bike lanes of roads because asphalt is softer than concrete.

Pointing at a large concrete building in central Zlitan, the man added: "They have a close watch on all our movements.