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Travel Europe - Food for the itinerant soul

Hi, I'm Anthony, 24, a Sydney-based writer. Enjoy tasting the Ambrosia that is Europe.

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Travel Europe - July 2006

Travel Deutschland, and Travel History

July 12th 2006 12:31

I have two friends travelling in Europe at the moment: one in Bratislava, capital of Slovakia; the other in Auschwitz, Modern History's melonoma. As they circumscribe the hackneyed trails of their friends and relatives - know-alls who've eagerly willed them to visit the same historic sites and amazing bagel shops as they visited, taste the same delectable cold meats, marzipan facades, cake annals, and sweep down the same frosted cannals, ravishing the autumnal beauty of such and such - taking it all in and writing home as if they were the first to make cultural jibes about how regressive they all are - backwater this, antipodean that - it occurred to me that it might be a good idea to do some sort of comparatiive analysis. Being in Germany, it seems appropriate to adjudge the two travelogues, both of which are being written from cities which Germany overran and appropriated during World War Two.

So I propose to analyse how entertaining they are, how informative, how relevant, how original...and other such criterion as I consider fit. That way you get three perspectives on a city, for the price of one. I could be onto something here...

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Comment by Johanna

September 14th 2006 00:35

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You could be. I look forward to reading your analyses. I too have travelled through Europe (mainly Italy, Greece and the UK) but haven't made it to Germany - yet.

Comment by JD

January 8th 2007 20:20

As an Australian who left Aus about the same time as you I'm looking forward to reading about your perspectives this side of the equator, but "modern history's melanoma?" That's a big call. While I would never mean to down play the horror that was Auschwitz, surely Rwanda, the Khmer Rouge, Idi Amin and closer to home the genocide of the Tasmanian Aborigine should fall into the same camp.

Comment by AmyHuang

August 25th 2007 13:55

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Agreed JD - unfortunately those events in less publicised cities never make it to the front page and the world largely remains uninterested.

Hi Anthony - Looking forward to your thoughts on Germany. I majored in German and spent a year studying there therefore have a lot of interest in the country's culture, history, social changes and people. The language too!

Comment by Wilson Pon

September 25th 2009 11:09

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Anthony, it would be good, if we can see more attractive photos from the two places you've mentioned on above!

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