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A Voyage to the Centre of Jules Verne
Ducrocq, Albert, UNESCO Courier
READ again today, most scientific works published in the last century seem distinctly old-fashioned. Both the theories propounded at that time and the terminology in which they were expressed appear outdated. The laboratory equipment used then looks to us archaic, almost grotesque.
But Jules Verne remains eternally young. A century after they were written his books are still best-sellers, not only in France but all over the world; only the Bible, Shakespeare and Lenin outstrip them. Today Verne's work is more popular than ever, and not only among young people.
What is his secret? Above all else he was a novelist to his fingertips, adept at fascinating his readers with descriptions in which poetry vies with fantasy and captivating them with the twists and turns of excellent plots full of adventures and mysteries prefiguring the modern whodunit.
Jules Verne is one of the masters of the art of suspense, which he sometimes prolongs into several volumes. When you have finished Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea you still do not know the identity of the mysterious Captain Nemo. This is only revealed in a later book, The Mysterious Island.
The denouement often contains a scientific message. Here appears another of Jules Verne's talents: he was a consummate teacher of the kind who stimulates the interest and enthusiasm of his pupils by amusing and intriguing them.
He excels at presenting abstract ideas in attractive form. One example is the difference of a day in calculating the length of a trip round the world. This discovery was made, not by Jules Verne, but by the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew who were astonished to find that the date when they reached Sanlucar was Saturday 6 September 1522 whereas according to their logbook that day should have been Friday the 5th; by voyaging westwards they had "lost" a day.
Verne's novel Around the World in Eighty Days is constructed around this phenomenon which has not occurred to the hero, Phileas Fogg. He thinks he has lost his bet after being held up in Great Britain near the end of his journey. Then, as he looks at a newspaper, he suddenly realizes that by travelling eastwards he has gained a day. He had seen the sun rise once more than people who had stayed in England. The few minutes he had lost here and there during his journey as he periodically adjusted his watch to solar time had gained him twenty-four hours.
In other cases, the solution of a problem is purely and simply imagined by the astonishingly inventive mind of Jules Verne. Thus the explorers in The Fur Country should have observed a total eclipse of the Sun but in fact they only observe a partial eclipse. Does this mean that an error has slipped into the calculation of the ephemerids? No, this is absolutely inconceivable in view of the degree of precision with which the movement of the Moon is known. The only possible explanation is that the explorers are no longer where they think they are because their island has become a raft.
With this incident Jules Verne thought up nothing less than the space sextant which was tested by Thomas Mattingly and Henry Hartsfield on the fourth mission of the space shuttle Columbia in the summer of 1982. This instrument works on the principle of taking account of the Moon's position in relation to the Sun in order to locate one's position.
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SEATTLE (AP) The Seattle Seahawks are bringing their game-changing defense — and the 12th Man — to the Big Apple for the Super Bowl.
Seattle's top-ranked defense forced three fourth-quarter turnovers, and Russell Wilson threw a 35-yard touchdown pass on fourth down for the winning points in a 23-17 victory over the San Francisco 49ers for the NFC title.
Seattle will meet Denver for the NFL title in two weeks in the New Jersey Meadowlands. It's the first trip to the big game for the Seahawks (15-3) since they lost to Pittsburgh after the 2005 season.
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Manning is taking the Denver Broncos on a trip to New York for the Super Bowl after another of his impeccably crafted victories — this time, a 26-16 win over the Patriots in the AFC title game.
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White was named to the U.S. Olympic team in his signature event, earning one of the three automatic spots on the men's team by winning the final qualifier. White posted a score of 96.6 to edge a resurgent Danny Davis for his second victory in three days to cap a busy week.
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Sgt. 1st Class Walter Twitty, an information systems operator from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 702nd Brigade Support Battalion, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, enjoys the company of retired Sgt. 1st Class Sidney Mayers during a Veteran's Day ceremony at the American Lake Veteran Affairs Medical Center in Tacoma, Wash. Nov. 11. Twitty, a Brooklyn, N.Y., native, and service members from the Joint Base Lewis-McChord community volunteered their time to get to know our nation's veterans and make them feel appreciated.
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M-Bone's Funeral to Be Opened to Public
Fans will be able to pay their final respect to the late Cali Swag District member, M-Bone. On Friday, May 20, it was announced that family of the "Teach Me How to Dougie" rapper, whose real name is Mante Talbert, has decided to open up his funeral to the public.
In a statement released, Cali Swag's publicist said, "There has been a tremendous outreach of concern and the family would like to have the funeral open to the public and fans that would like to support." Services will take place next Friday, May 27, at 11 A.M. PT at Faithful Central Bible Church in Inglewood, California.
M-Bone was gunned down outside a liquor store in Inglewood last Sunday night, May 15. Inglewood Police Department Homicide Sgt. Brian Spencer told MTV News that he was fatally shot in the head while sitting in the driver's seat of a black vehicle. Investigation over the shooting is still underway. It was suggested earlier that a Twitter war over a girl might be one of the possible causes.
After news broke of M-Bone's tragic passing, bandmate C-Smoove ruled out gang violence as a possible cause. In a video posted on TMZ, he said, "I wanna clear up: It had nothing to do with gang violence, it wasn't nothing like that. It was just a 'wrong place at the wrong time' situation." Another band member JayAre, meanwhile, expressed his grief of losing the 22-year old.
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Poland has made remarkable progress in its transition to market capitalism and liberal democracy. That progress has owed much to support from Western governments and international institutions. The success Poland has enjoyed in attracting international backing and in dealing with the problems of transition has reflected the country's historical compatibility with the Euro-Atlantic liberal-democratic political and economic order. Poland scores well, by comparison with other post-communist states, in any ranking of what may be called 'European compatibility potential'. Geographical proximity and easy access to Western Europe has fostered a deep familiarity with democratic culture. Ever since Poland became part of European civilization in what historians call the 'long tenth century', its people have had a close cultural affinity with Western Europe. They have shared traditions of self-government, the separation of Church and state, law, and a belief in the dignity of the individual. These European values, central to Polish national identity, sustained resistance through four decades of communist rule. Of all the Soviet satellites, Poland proved the most troublesome, with a record number of rebellions: three major ones in 1956, 1970, and 1980-1, and two minor ones, in 1968 and 1976.
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Environmental change can increase the likelihood of interspecific hybridization by altering properties of mate recognition and discrimination between sympatric congeners. We examined how exposure to an environmentally widespread endocrine-disrupting chemical (EDC), bisphenol A (BPA), affected visual communication signals and behavioral isolation between an introduced freshwater fish and a native congener (genus: Cyprinella). Exposure to BPA induced changes in the expression of male secondary traits as well as male and female mate choice, leading to an overall reduction in prezygotic isolation between congeners. Changes in female mate discrimination were not tightly linked to changes in male phenotypic traits, suggesting that EDC exposure may alter female choice thresholds independently of the effects of exposure on males. These findings indicate that environmental exposure to EDCs can lead to population declines via the erosion of species boundaries and by promoting the establishment and spread of non-native species via hybridization.


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3 Developments that are Sabotaging the Social Media Movement
Dec 6th
By Stanford Smith, Contributing {grow} Columnist
I'm worried about the social media movement.
Although in some ways the initial enthusiasm in social was overblown, we were right to place high expectations on the convergence of media, social networking, and collaboraton.
However, as of late, something seems to be missing.
Thoughtful dialogue has turned to petty conversations about rules and technique.
Thought Leadership has morphed into clever personal grandstanding.
When I think I'm going a bit overboard I can't help but notice some disturbing signs – starting with …
The Selling Out of Social Media
One sign is the gradual co-opting of social media as a broadcast tactic. Marketing professionals increasingly use social networks as a platform for reaching precise demographics. Facebook ads for soccer moms, LinkedIn for HR professionals, Twitter for novel writers, whatever slice you want, a social network has it.
It seems that the social faithful have gone to sleep and allowed the pendulum to swing too far to the media side of "social media" cutting the heart out of the movement.
Unfortunately, this approach guarantees that Social Media will play second fiddle to PPC, email marketing, and even SEO in the market discussion.
This is not where we want to end up.
Perhaps this is inevitable since it seems that we have precious few innovators in the field.
Where Are The Innovators?
It's been a while since I had a "wow" moment. It seems that the rule of the day is to "model" (read shamelessly copy) instead of innovating. The evidence surrounds us.
There are numerous Old Spice Q&A spin-offs, CEOs are racing to match Tony Hsieh's Twitter engagement, every company wants Facebook Fan page razzle-dazzle. However, no one is pushing social engagement into new territory.
To be fair, we are struggling to find where that new territory is but far too many of us are content with being copycats and pundits rather than innovators.
Even though this is troubling, there's one more sign that threatens to hollow-out the promise of social media …
Conversations or Professional Small Talk?
Do a quick audit of company Facebook pages and Twitter accounts and you'll see a disturbing trend, I call it the rise of "Professional Small Talk".
It works like this, instead of having meaningful dialogue, the company loads its tweets and Facebook posts with inane conversation starters. You know what I'm talking about –
- "Do you prefer a hot or "white" Christmas?
- What are you wearing today?
- What is your favorite season?
This small talk is entice a person to comment or share. From there, the so-called engagement is rolled up into fancy metric reports showing hockey-stick engagement growth. Does the audience really feel any closer to the business? Nope. But somebody's spreadsheet looks a lot better.
While Professional Small Talk looks like engagement, its just panders to small thinking and guts the social movement in the process.
So what's going on here?
3 Habits That Are Sabotaging The Social Movement
Three bad habits have conspired to rob the social movement of its momentum. I'll touch on them and we can discuss them at length in the comments. Here we go:
Tool Addiction: Sharper minds among us tried their best to intervene and break us of our tool habit. They were unsuccessful despite their tireless work. The race to focus on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn techniques dumbed down our thinking and forced us to sit at the kiddie strategy table.
ROI Fixation and Vanity Metrics: Almost from the start, "practitioners of the obvious "started beating the ROI Drum. Before marketing professionals even fully recognized the benefit of social business, the ROI priesthood began challenging social's efficacy.
Instead of calling for patience, harassed social media managers raced to embrace Klout, Follower vs. Following stats, retweets, Likes and other vanity metrics. While the metrics placated executive teams, it forced us to use an inadequate quantitative narrative to describe a powerful qualitative phenomenon.
The Engagement Rut: On the opposite side of ROI Fixation is The Engagement Rut. This happens when simply commenting or tweeting satisfies social media goals. Companies unwittingly embraced this by creating social teams who just needed to "show up" and tweet from a loose script.
Along the way the social program became unhitched from business goals and strategy. Soon, the social person became the passionate and chatty person at the party who didn't have the faintest clue why she was invited to the party in the first place.
How to Kickstart The Social Movement
I may be biting off more than I can chew here, after all social business is more than just a 700 word topic. However, I believe there are a few key questions that will refocus our attention on what makes social business special and profoundly important to every aspect of business.
How Can Customers Drive Innovation?
Businesses have to invite customers into the design studio. Sustainable innovation will come from satisfying and anticipating customer needs.
Sure, I know Henry Ford's (and Steve Jobs') innovation caveat – "If I asked my customers what they wanted they would have said a faster horse and buggy" but we shouldn't use this to lock customers out of meaningful product development collaboration.
Social provides amazing tools for this collaboration and we should be taking the lead in developing and implementing them. Businesses who use social to view customers as the source as well as the beneficiary of innovation will achieve enduring competitive advantage.
How Do We Restore Real Dialogue?
We urgently need to move away from 'Professional Small Talk" and start focus on building relationships through meaningful conversation.
Notice that the goal is a relationship not just a mention. Once we get our priorities straight we will be able to align expectations around customer lifetime value, loyalty, and advocacy.
How Is Your Organization (or client) Inspiring Its Customers, Employees and Partners?
Social business draws its power from fantastic products and services. People want to talk about their purchases, social media just gives them an efficient way to do so. However, social tools can't save uninspired products.
Simply having a Facebook page doesn't create real excitement around your value proposition. As social strategists we should take the lead on helping businesses infuse their products with the 'wow' factor.
Do I believe that the social revolution has stalled?
I also believe that we have exactly what we need to get our momentum back.
Am I being too harsh? Has social media lost its relevancy in your organization?
Contributing Columnist Stanford Smith obsesses about how to get passionate people's blogs noticed and promoted at Pushing Social, except when he's chasing large mouth bass.
Social Media Conversation. Yes, but at what cost?
Dec 4th
There were some outstanding blog posts last week that explored the idea of the SPEED of social media communication changing traditional business models. This was social dialogue at its best.
Jay Baer started the conversation with a series of posts that included Why Social Media has Ruined Your Advantage. He postulates that the social channel is unique in that businesses are using the same playbook that consumers are using in their daily lives. This rapidly breaks down barriers and eliminates the shroud of mystery that businesses have used as an advantage for centuries.
In my own writing, I've characterized this barrier as an "ether" in the marketplace that has kept customers asleep. Many banks are profitable from fees and charges that customers overlook or don't understand. AOL still receives income from dial-up subscriptions people forgot they have on their credit cards, or don't understand they don't need any more. The transparency of the web will dissipate this ether over time.
Tom Webster continued the conversation in his post Be Careful What You Wish For. He wonders if the social web challenges tried and true business models and raises an unrealistic expectation of customer service.
These posts helped coalesce some of my thinking on a topic I have been pondering — Everybody is rushing to join the social media conversation. But at what cost?
The cost of dissatisfaction
Years ago, I led an effort to re-engineer a customer service model for my company. I used an academic study from the University of Michigan as my guide (can't find it now) that stated there is a diminishing return to satisfying ALL customers. More or less, once you get over 98% customer satisfaction, the cost of satisfying that final 2 percent is not economical. So, achieving 100 percent customer satisfaction is impractical for many businesses.
I see this playing out on the web every day. There is a core group of haters who will bellyache no matter what you do or say to appease them. When we had the "ether," we could afford to ignore them. But now their comments are public on company Facebook pages and other social platforms. A few vocal haters can be thunderous, hijack your social media efforts, and raise service costs exponentially. The ether has dissipated, and the 2 percent are now in control.
With so many conversations streaming at us, do we even have the ability to discern which complaints are legitimate any more? Are we conditioning consumers to game the system through complaints because of the easy rewards they can garner from companies who auto-respond with coupons and freebies? What is the cost of THAT over time?
Does every conversation sell stuff?
I'd like to introduce a radical concept. Businesses have to sell stuff.
It's easy to lose sight of this when we worship companies like Zappos, which states that their goal is to "deliver happiness." They also have deliver a profit, or all that happiness will go away. In Tony Hsieh's wonderful book, Delivering Happiness he admitted that the idea of building a business based on a culture of extreme service came while drinking at a bar one day, lamenting that his company was failing. It was a desperate experiment that worked, not some well-planned strategic vision.
Yes, he delivers happiness. but he also delivers money. In this era where "the Conversation" is king, too many people get caught up in the fear of being left behind and lose sight that we need to show a measurable return on these social media efforts, too.
I had the great pleasure of getting to know Rick Wion of McDonalds this year. There is no smarter marketing talent out there and no company more committed to connecting with its customers in the social media trenches. McDonalds has a staff of people Facebooking and tweeting all the time. But some of their tweeters have become so popular that lonely people look for them to come online and tweet with them to pass the time. This is very nice, but how does this sell hamburgers? At what point do you say, "enough is enough?" What is the cost of our conversation? Lots of companies are facing these issues right now.
Social media angst
I've met many great marketers at large American companies and have had the chance to get an inside peak at their social media angst. Here's a dirty little secret. Deep down, I think most companies wished the social web would just go away.
The Days of Ether, when we didn't have to "listen" so much, had its benefits. We could ignore that 2 percent. We didn't need $10,000/month listening platforms, social media war rooms, and a budget for teams of tweeters. Consumer Confusion was profitable.
Now if you've read this blog for any period of time, you know I am huge advocate of the social web and its potential to transform businesses. And the fact that it dis-intermediates the business sloppiness that was allowed to exist in the ether is a good thing in the long term. So I'm not saying that that it is not a historic and important channel. Quite the opposite. I'm just saying that it comes with a lot of unanticipated pain.
That ether — and its response time lapse — gave us time to think and analyze. It provided a buffer to get us through the messy process of re-tooling a strategy … or even a company. Diminishing the ether through increased transparency and light-speed information flow is one of the greatest and least-understood impacts of the social web. And, as both Jay and Tom have written so brilliantly, it is a one-way ticket.
The cost of conversation. It's a discussion we need to be having everywhere, don't you think?
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Is this the best commercial ever?
Dec 2nd
I found this commercial to be brilliant on every level. It tells a great story, the nuanced looks and expressions of the actresses are priceless, it's memorable, and it's HILARIOUS. This is a work of art and there is no doubt it had to be shared with the {grow} community!
What are your thoughts? What would you name as your all-time favorite commercial of this or any other year?
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Are you being caught in Google's Filter Bubble?
Dec 1st
Can't see the video? Click here: Mark Schaefer interviews Helen Brown
This video will make you think! On my recent trip to Boston I got to catch up with Helen Brown, who is not only my friend and customer, but also a brilliant thinker and strategist when it comes to search.
Her livelihood depends on it! Her firm helps nonprofits thrive through expert research, training and consulting on donor strategies. Search engines are the life blood of her business.
So imagine my surprise when she described to me a phenomenon that is occurring for all of us. As Google tailors each of our searches based on our search history, it is inexorably limiting the possibilities and quality of our searches. In this short video interview, Helen describes a strategy to "take your search back" as well as a new Google tool called Verbatim that is designed to re-open search possibilities for all of us.
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One of my favorite conservative sites is No Pasaran, a conservative site from France in English that often has very illuminating posts. Below we have a section of a post by Erik discussing the costs of the sexual revolution:
The "harmless" leftists also brought us such cultural wonders as the sexual revolution, which is supposed to be a giant leap forward against a society of old-fashioned taboos.
Is that all that the revolution has brought us? Is it only all that is good?
We now live in a society where kids asked for directions run screaming from a stranger's car because the driver was a man; where later London mayor Boris Johnson was once asked to change his seat in an airplane (in an airliner!) because the flight attendants did not want to seat a lone-traveling boy next to a singly-traveling man; where kids in French parks are forbidden to speak with any adult (certainly with any adult male) although they are their in classes of dozens running around on the grass and supervised by a number of teachers; where over 600 mall visitors walked by two lost- and "utterly forlorn"-looking girls in a Daily Mail experiment, ignoring them because they were afraid of being labeled a pedophile; and where males are no longer trusted to be in the teaching profession. Says Good Morning America's Susan Donaldson James:
"It's very hard to change the suspicion of men who are going to elementary education when there are so few of them," [said Massachusetts psychologist Michael Thompson, co-author of the groundbreaking 2000 book "Raising Cain," which argues that society shortchanges boys]. "Schools ask me to talk to men on their faculty and when I sit with them behind closed doors, they say the moms look at them like potential pedophiles."If they are too nurturing or a mother comes in and sees a teacher reading in a chair and the child is leaning against the teacher or cuddling him, they freak out," he said. "Men tell me they only have to look in the mom's face to know what they are thinking."
The professor adds that
as I've noted before, is that if you watch old movies, or even cartoons, it's regularly assumed that adult males have nurturing instincts. Only in our supposedly progressive era are men reduced to cardboard cutouts dominated by lust and Mammon.
This is the mighty good that the sexual revolution and its good riddance to taboos have brought us: where no one trusts anyone, where every neighbor is a predator, a pedophile, or suspected of being one, if "only" potentially. Or, almost just as bad, a wife-beater or a father with no love for his children, who deserves to have his wife divorce him, his family broken up, and himself left as destitute as possible. (You will notice that the "culprits" most often are men, who are part of the gender most associated with — dare we speak the truth without hysterics breaking out? — a spirit of independence, not giving in, and resistance to the authorities.) Continue reading
Raquel Welch and CS Lewis
When I was growing up in the late Sixties and early Seventies the number one sex symbol going away was the actress Raquel Welch. What little I had heard of her opinions seemed to be those of a conventional Hollywood liberal. Therefore I was shocked by this column she wrote for CNN on the anniversary of the invention of the birth control pill:
Margaret Sanger opened the first American family-planning clinic in 1916, and nothing would be the same again. Since then the growing proliferation of birth control methods has had an awesome effect on both sexes and led to a sea change in moral values.
Was Something Different in the 60s and 70s?
Given some of the discussion on John Henry's post yesterday about the timeline of the abuse scandal, I wanted to do a bit more digging into what the actual statistics of the scandal are.
At the NY Times website, Ross Douthat had written:
There's no way to be completely certain about this, and clearly there was abuse in the church, and horrid cover-ups as well, going back decades and centuries and more. But the John Jay data suggest that something significant really did shift, and escalate, in the years around the sexual revolution.
Dads Need To Make a Comeback
As my daughters get closer and closer to the age of temptation and exploitation- I am ready now to stand up to the dominant culture of casual sex- I don't know when it was that Dads abandoned their daughters to the so-called sexual revolution- but I'm the Dad now and the girls-as-sex-objects mainstream culture is the Enemy- I'm not abandoning my girls -not now, not ever.
I will be posting more such helpful videos which I am using in my high school religion classes- we must get the word out through the teen ranks. Our young people are being tossed to the wolves into a mass media culture that celebrates porn/womanizers/pimps as comic figures/cougars and other soul-numbing influences. In my own lifetime, I've seen the damage done from the Playboy to Penthouse to Hustler to Anything Goes Internet Porn downward spiral. I am looking to start a movement of Dads to begin protesting outside the ubiquitous strip clubs- to claim some public space where real men educate the public about the real dignity of women. If we don't want our daughters to grow up to be perceived as mere sex objects, then we need to evangelize the Culture.


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So here I was, separated from my little girl for the first time in nine months. Outside, on the ward, Staff and new mums were bustling around. Gordon had gone home to look after the boys, and all I had to remind me of the night before was a Polaroid photo of the daughter I had just given birth to. I had been allowed to hold her for a couple of minutes before she was whisked away to the Special Care Baby Unit, and now the doctors were reluctant for me to see her before they had fully checked her out. The reality of the seriousness of my baby's health hadn't sunk in even at this stage. All I wanted was to see her and hold her. My beautiful little girl. Why were they stopping me from being with her?
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My beautiful girl will be twenty tomorrow. It will be the first time we have been apart for her birthday, but this is how life should be now. Whilst I reflect on the past she will be celebrating with her friends.
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"Revolving around Titlis" Top 5 Page for this destination Engelberg by sandysmith
Engelberg Travel Guide: 79 reviews and 500 photos
A bit of a trek here for a day trip from our base in Vitznau but well worth it - Engelberg literally means "Mount of Angels" and it certainly is a heavenly place to visit with the huge Benedictine monastery dominating the town and surrounded by wonderful alpine peaks. Mt Titlis is the largest peak here in central Switzerland and its one of those "must do" mountain trips. I had been here before with VT'er Rebibi but with cloudy weather we just saw the town and the cheese factory in the monastery. This time I was back here with hubby and the sun was shinning so we headed for the mountains this time.
The glacier and scenery and splendid hiking trails only whetted our appeptite more (or was it the cheese!) for a future visit, perhaps a longer stay. There's certainly more to explore than just the monastery and the big 4-stage cable-car trip to Titlis.
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Fantastic, beautiful photographs. I felt quite giddy looking at that gondola. Would love some cheese from the monastery.
great photos of Engelberg !
wow, that is a great place to go and still missing on my map ! ;-(( Maybe the next time, when I will go to Switzerland !
Hi Sandy. Thx for dropping by in my Switzerland page. You were so lucky with the weather during your stay here. Great! I like this main pic in your Engelberg page. I love Titlis. Gorgeous captures!
That cheese sandwich is something else! Great write up and tips.
I see what you mean -- I'll move my page tomorrow. Nice page you're building yourself! Cheers, Mark
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