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Re: [welshliberaldemocrat~at~yahoo.co.uk: "Journey to the Centre of

From: harlock <harlock~at~ool.fr>
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2005 10:12:32 +0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hi Harry,

Great post and great journey !

If I knew about it before, I had asked to come with you...

Do you have other pictures of the Snafell ?
I've been there in 1992, but I was in a middle of an awfull snowy gale,
and I saw nothing. I think I reach the small cliff on the left of your
picture.
I know it is not official icelandic nomenclature, but we distinctely see
the Scartaris on the right.

Good luck,

Pierre Brial

Zvi Har'El wrote:
> Dear Friends,
>
> The full message, with a 238K JPEG attachment, has been archived in http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2005/07/0000.html
>
> 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
>
>
>
> ----- End forwarded message -----
>
Received on Sat 02 Jul 2005 - 09:32:07 IDT

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