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29/06/22

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Originally posted by Taurisk: ↑

Hi BenC - I was in Australia at that time - I guess you will never forget the year that vulcano struck -

Apart from vulcanoes: I remember a stop-over in Belgrade (1989) just months before their internecine wars started and I still remember that I could actually 'feel' how thick the air was with suppressed hostility/apprehension, whatever, by almost everyone, except when I mentioned this to my husband he couldn't sense what I did. Very strange that - and he was a kind of 'new-agey' bloke, tuned into everything, but didn't pick up on the aggression around us, even the waiters were rude and history was about to erupt into a bloody brother-war.

Nothing to do with a real volcano, though - that would unite people pretty quickly . . . .
Historians reckon the first big one, the one caused by Laki in 1783 - was responsible for bad harvests for years even as far as Western Europe - and one of the results of this was hunger ending in the French Revolution in May of 1789 - and it wasn't Marie Antoinette's fault after all - just a series of bad or no harvests of grain etc. for 5 years, because of the constant cloud cover from the fall-out of these everlasting eruptions (8 months) of a volcano on Iceland.
They say 'Tolkien' (writer of the Lord of the Rings) got his inspiration for Middle Earth from Iceland.
One of my daughters spent a bit of time on Iceland, brought home a beautiful 'Norwegian' cardigan . . . . she thought the place was magical!

So sorry about your failed holiday!!!
Go well
Taurisk

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hi Tau,
I love to travel and used to fly a lot, so I’ve been caught up in all kinds of travel mishaps. Nothing like an impending war tho (that would have been scary). No plane crashes either (wouldn’t that be a boost for your street cred).
Iceland is definitely on my bucket list. There are a few people from the Tesla club post that from there Some of the photos are amazing. 250kph katabatic winds sound like something from another planet.
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