Tips for
European trips/ Carlos Pueblo
I was very
fortunate to run into three European tourists at the hostel in Buenos
Aires,
Argentina. All three gives me some tips for my European tours next year.
I am going
to have two months trip each next year to Europe, in April and September.
I’ll take a
re-positioned cruise from Houston to Barcelona, Spain in April and with
The same
ship back to Houston in October, of course I’ll have a round trip to fly
back and to
Houston from Frankfurt, Germany in between.
First, I met
Julian Von Usslar, a well learned young engineer from north Germany.
He said with
such long time available in Europe, I should take a side trip to Istanbul,
Turkey for
at least a week. The air fare is about 100 Euro from any of German city
to that city
by Turkish Air Line because there are 3.5 millions of Turks live and work
in Germany.
Istanbul is amazing that I have been told all the time. He says that sipping
sweet
Turkish tea across the strait connecting Asia and Europe is like in the heaven.
On our brief
exchange, we did cover a lot of territory and I was very amazed how broad
this young
man knew, Sarajevo, Bosnia, Richard Holbrook, Dayton Accord, Santiago
Walk, Mt.
Denali, Thich Nhat Hanh, Hakka, etc. He said German race has nothing to do
with Attila
Huns, nothing related to Asia Huns as I asked him. We did have touched
Immanuel
Kant, the philosopher from Konigsberg, East Prussia where his grand parents
were from.
He didn’t know Kant’s book yet he recommended a book to read. I told him that
I knew Kant
due to that Viet -Namese monk about phenomenal and nominal world,
horizontal and
vertical which affected me ever since I read his book.
When I
arrive Barcelona, I would go directly to a small nation on Franco-Spanish
boulder,
Andorra for
a visit. A young French lady, Helene Billand, drew a map for me. Then northward
to Toulouse,Rodez
her hometown, then Lyon, Paris. I can also take a train across the middle
of France to
Bordeaux, a famous wine country. She recommends me visit the Eastern European
countries especially Slovenia.
I showed her
drawing to another German senior, Jurgen Kurz, he said that was very closed to
his hometown,
Freiburg, on the bank of River Rhine. I was very pleased that at least I knew
where to go
in April, 2016.
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