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

From: Lionel Dupuy <dupuy.lionel1~at~voila.fr>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:01:27 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hello,
If you want to see pictures of the Sneffels, you can visit my website : http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jules-verne/CIEH5.htm
There are too pictures of Stromboli... Thanks, Lionel ;-)

Lionel Dupuy
33 chemin de Bernès
64230 Sauvagnon
http://perso.wanadoo.fr/jules-verne





> 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 The full message, with a 238K JPEG attachment, has been archived in http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2005/07/0000.html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 -----
> >
> > From: "Harry Hayfield"
> > To: "Jules Verne Forum"
> > 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 -----
> >
>
>
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