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[welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" 2005]

From: Zvi Har'El <rl~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 23:22:52 +0300
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Dear Friends,

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Best,

Zvi.

----- Forwarded message from Harry Hayfield <welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk> -----

From: "Harry Hayfield" <welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk>
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>
Subject: "Journey to the Centre of the Earth" 2005
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 12:31:04 +0100

At 2.53am GMT this morning, the sun rose over the Snaefells volcano in
Iceland and according to Jules Verne in "Journey to the Centre of the
Earth":

"In Sneffels Joculis craterem quem delibat Umbra Scartaris Julii intra
calendas descende, Audax viator, et terrestre centrum attinges.Quod feci,
Arne Saknussemm"

Which in English translates as:

"Descend, bold traveller, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels,which the
shadow of Scartaris touches before the kalends of July, and
you will attain the centre of the earth; which I have done, Arne
Saknussemm."

and thus starts the chain of events that leads Professor Lidenbrock, Axel
and Hans to the centre of the earth and a journey that takes them from
Snaefells in Iceland to Mount Etna in Italy. Now clearly this journey is
impossible in this present day and age (as there is no tunnel from Iceland
to Italy), so how about an overland journey from Iceland to Italy. In fact,
lets go one stage further

(adopts best Phileas Fogg attitude)

"Sirs, I wish to put forward the suggestion that using only surface
transport I can travel (according to the data on the internet regarding
trains, buses and ferries) from the Snaefells Volcano in Iceland to Mount
Etna in Italy FASTER than Professor Lidenbrock. Axel and Hans. This means
arriving at Mount Etna prior to August 29th 2005. I will willingly wager a
video recording I have made of Around the World in Eighty Days (1956),
Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1959) as well as a picture of myself
dressed in my best Phileas Fogg outfit!"

"Journey to the Centre of the Earth 2005" : Day 1: July 1st 2005



The Snaefells Volcano (as seen from near it's summit) makes an imposing
place to start this overland journey. Having spent last night on the summit
it up with the larks to see the sun rise. Shame there's not a tunnel to the
centre of the earth as that sort of thing really gets you going in the
morning, but the first priority is to get to civilisation and that's easily
done as there is a bus service around Snaefells that arrives in Olafsvik at
4.45pm thus enabling a good night's (well night in the conventional sense of
the word) rest before setting off to Reykjavik the following day



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                                  Friday, 25 Sivan 5765,  1 July 2005, 11:16PM

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