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

From: Lionel Dupuy <dupuy.lionel1~at~voila.fr>
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2005 11:08:47 +0200 (CEST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~Gilead.org.il>

Hello (again),
I forgot this website (to see pictures of Sneffels) : http://www.snjofell.is/
Cordially, Lionel ;-)






> 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 The full message, with a 238K JPEG attachment, has been archived in http://jv.gilead.org.il/forum/2005/07/0000.html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 -----
>
> --
> Dr. Zvi Har'El mailto:rl~at~math.technion.ac.il Department of Mathematics
> tel:+972-54-4227607 icq:179294841 Technion - Israel Institute of Technology
> fax:+972-4-8293388 http://www.math.technion.ac.il/~rl/ Haifa 32000, ISRAEL
> "If you can't say somethin' nice, don't say nothin' at all." -- Thumper (1942)
> Friday, 25 Sivan 5765, 1 July 2005, 11:16PM
>
>
>



Lionel Dupuy
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