[FRIAM] EU travel

[Jochen Fromm]

The historical museum in Berlin has an original tricorn hat which Napoleon used in Waterloo. It is just an ordinary hat, but I found it very impressive because it is the original which has survived the centuries.Yes, we have a lot of history here in Europe, especially in Greece and Italy but also in Germany. In Arnstadt and Leipzig there are still the organs where J.S. Bach used to play. We have original Medieval castles like Burg Eltz from the 12th century. And 1200 year old cathedrals like the one in Aachen which was constructed by Charles the Great (Charlemagne). It is a bit cold and dusty though :-)Venice is quite nice and unique. At this time of the year it might not be too crowded. -J.
-------- Original message --------From: Steve Smith <sasmyth at swcp.com> Date: 6/4/22  11:18  (GMT+01:00) To: friam at redfish.com Subject: [FRIAM] EU travel 
    
    
    Jochen -
    
    
      
      I get "mail delivery failed" errors if I try to
        reply to you directly Steve :-( Maybe the mailbox is full? 
      
      
      -J.
      
      
      
      
      
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      Oh, you are making a tour through Europe? Nice. Do
        you plan to visit Berlin or Germany too?
      
      
      -J. 
      
    
    Yes, we are on a long visit/tour anchored by the month of June at
      Jenny Quillien's place in Weesp, NL.   She is on her own
      "walkabout" in Northmost North America ( Alaska) and has gifted a
      few of us under-traveled Americans the opportunity to settle at
      her place for a long visit to Europe as COVID has lifted and Putin
      has not launched WWIII (yet).
    The previous guests were delayed most of a week for their return
      to Santa Fe due to a false-positive COVID test, but are on their
      way now and we arrive there on the 8th, only 1  week behind
      schedule.
    I don't know of other (regularly posting?) members of FriAM
      living in Europe besides yourself.   I am sure there are some...
      Jenny is nominally a FriAM member and many of you know her
      in-person but we do not hear from her online often.   I always
      like to put a face with a name when I can and meet colleagues and
      correspondents in person.
    
    I missed SteveG's son Miles by only a few hours (by coincidence)
      as we flew in through Reykjavik.  I haven't seen Miles since he
      was about 15 or 16... I believe he is living in Estonia part-time
      and traveling the Baltics this summer.   I don't think we will get
      that far from Amsterdam, though I have always wanted to visit
      Vilnius and the district of Uzupis.   Too close to the wounded
      Russian Bear right now?
    This is likely our last transcontinental trip based on climate
      impacts, etc.   It feels terribly self-indulgent to burn so much
      jet fuel for "simple leisure".   This kind of travel feeds and
      informs Mary's travel and I'm using it to inform my continued
      study of Collective Emergent Human Consciousness in some sense and
      trying to understand the differences between 1st World Europe and
      1st World USA, especially in terms of the adaptability that the
      Dutch, in particular, have undergone.   Being in villages that
      were occupied by Napolean and then the Russians pushing him back
      followed by the devastaion of WWI to be rebuilt and then
      re-devastated by WWII is fascinating... and these villages include
      in some cases 0AD Roman ruins and cathedrals built up to 1000
      years ago and still in use.   This kind of deep-time parallax is
      beyond the experience of *most* Americans.   The Native American
      Pueblo I live inside was "granted" it's existence by the King of
      Spain in 1623 but probably didn't exist until after the Chacoan
      collapse a few centuries earlier.   NM is home to Clovis of the
      famous "Clovis Points" and Clovis culture that runs back a few
      more thousands of years, but Europe's legacy of Homo Sapiens going
      back to early holocene and Neanderthalis 100,000 years earlier is
      mind boggling to my foreshortened sense of human history American
      Style.
    - Steve
    try my other e-mails (sas at lava3d.com and sas.lava3d at gmail.com or
      even 001 505 920 0252 by phone or whatsapp).
    
  

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