Marc Nash | Inter Euro Rail Book Tag Pt 2 @MarcNash | Uploaded August 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
A tag originated by Booktime With Elvis Booktime With Elvis The Inter Rail/ Euro Rail Book tag Part 2 youtube.com/watch?v=Gvsp4dMl08U&ab_channel=BookTimewithElvis
My version of Part 1 of the tag can be viewed here youtube.com/watch?v=KzrXeMfBhfs&ab_channel=MarcNash
The prompts:
Part II
Having had your fill of Paella you head off to Lisbon it is a long route with stops and transfers on the way. Have you read a book that felt like it wasn't ever going to end?
Finally after much travel you arrive in Lisbon a beautiful city that had large parts of the city destroyed in the great earthquake of 1755, have you ever experienced an earthquake, tornado, hurricane or some such force of nature?
Lisbon was the home town of Fernando Pessoa, have you read anything by him?
Interestingly Pessoa published just four books in his lifetime and three of them were in English, he also translated books like The Scarlett Letter by Hawthorne and poems by Poe into Portuguese. Do you read many translated works and what are some of your favourites?
Pessoa was fond of the odd drink or ten. You head up to the city of Porto famous for among other things port a drink of fortified wine. Do you have a favourite tipple now and again? If you do not drink alcohol what then is your favourite thirst quenching beverage?
Porto is home to the Livraria Lello a beautiful bookshop that unfortunately due to a tenuous link to the Harry Potter films has now become a bit of a tourist attraction, have you got a favourite bookshop and or library?
The Douro river runs through Porto and the old town is a UNESCO world heritage site with its six bridges across the river, have you visited any UNESCO sites if so tell us about some of them?
Finding yourself in a particularly devout mood and with a lot of time on your hands you decide to walk the Portuguese Camino de Santiago all the way to Santiago de Compostela which will take you between 10-12 days (if you are not up to it you can grab a bus there in three and half hours)
Do you enjoy walking/hiking? What is the longest walk you have done?
After a bit of R&R and some intense foot bathing in Santiago de Compostela you embark by train to Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque country. The Basque country was the home to Juan Sebastián Elcano the man who took over Magellan's circumnavigation of the world after his death.
Have you read much non fiction on discovery and exploration? Are there any interesting books you would recommend to us?
Not far from Bilbao lies the town of Guernica made famous by the atrocities committed there during the Spanish Civil War by the Luftwaffe in support of General Franco's fascists. These atrocities are commemorated in Pablo Picasso' s painting Guernica.
Picasso is known for being an influential figure in both the cubist and surrealist movements, are you a fan? Have you got a favourite artistic school/movement?
From Bilbao you travel to Barcelona. In Barcelona you visit the Camp Nou, home to the Barcelona football team in many, the national team of Catalonia. Are you a football (soccer) fan, if not what sports do you like? Do you ever go to matches, meets, events etc?
You decide not to stay too long in Barcelona and instead move on back to France and up the Mediterranean coast to the nice town of Nice passing through the town of Cannes on the way. Cannes of course is well known in the film industry and has one of the industry's most glamorous film festivals. What are a few of your favourite films? What was one of the most disappointing films you have seen?
Heading further up the Mediterranean coast we arrive in a new country, Italy and the city of Genoa, where will pause our journey for now and if interest remains in this little tag we will pick up our trip in the former home of Christopher Columbus, until then grazie mille e arrivederci.
A tag originated by Booktime With Elvis Booktime With Elvis The Inter Rail/ Euro Rail Book tag Part 2 youtube.com/watch?v=Gvsp4dMl08U&ab_channel=BookTimewithElvis
My version of Part 1 of the tag can be viewed here youtube.com/watch?v=KzrXeMfBhfs&ab_channel=MarcNash
The prompts:
Part II
Having had your fill of Paella you head off to Lisbon it is a long route with stops and transfers on the way. Have you read a book that felt like it wasn't ever going to end?
Finally after much travel you arrive in Lisbon a beautiful city that had large parts of the city destroyed in the great earthquake of 1755, have you ever experienced an earthquake, tornado, hurricane or some such force of nature?
Lisbon was the home town of Fernando Pessoa, have you read anything by him?
Interestingly Pessoa published just four books in his lifetime and three of them were in English, he also translated books like The Scarlett Letter by Hawthorne and poems by Poe into Portuguese. Do you read many translated works and what are some of your favourites?
Pessoa was fond of the odd drink or ten. You head up to the city of Porto famous for among other things port a drink of fortified wine. Do you have a favourite tipple now and again? If you do not drink alcohol what then is your favourite thirst quenching beverage?
Porto is home to the Livraria Lello a beautiful bookshop that unfortunately due to a tenuous link to the Harry Potter films has now become a bit of a tourist attraction, have you got a favourite bookshop and or library?
The Douro river runs through Porto and the old town is a UNESCO world heritage site with its six bridges across the river, have you visited any UNESCO sites if so tell us about some of them?
Finding yourself in a particularly devout mood and with a lot of time on your hands you decide to walk the Portuguese Camino de Santiago all the way to Santiago de Compostela which will take you between 10-12 days (if you are not up to it you can grab a bus there in three and half hours)
Do you enjoy walking/hiking? What is the longest walk you have done?
After a bit of R&R and some intense foot bathing in Santiago de Compostela you embark by train to Bilbao, the de facto capital of the Basque country. The Basque country was the home to Juan Sebastián Elcano the man who took over Magellan's circumnavigation of the world after his death.
Have you read much non fiction on discovery and exploration? Are there any interesting books you would recommend to us?
Not far from Bilbao lies the town of Guernica made famous by the atrocities committed there during the Spanish Civil War by the Luftwaffe in support of General Franco's fascists. These atrocities are commemorated in Pablo Picasso' s painting Guernica.
Picasso is known for being an influential figure in both the cubist and surrealist movements, are you a fan? Have you got a favourite artistic school/movement?
From Bilbao you travel to Barcelona. In Barcelona you visit the Camp Nou, home to the Barcelona football team in many, the national team of Catalonia. Are you a football (soccer) fan, if not what sports do you like? Do you ever go to matches, meets, events etc?
You decide not to stay too long in Barcelona and instead move on back to France and up the Mediterranean coast to the nice town of Nice passing through the town of Cannes on the way. Cannes of course is well known in the film industry and has one of the industry's most glamorous film festivals. What are a few of your favourite films? What was one of the most disappointing films you have seen?
Heading further up the Mediterranean coast we arrive in a new country, Italy and the city of Genoa, where will pause our journey for now and if interest remains in this little tag we will pick up our trip in the former home of Christopher Columbus, until then grazie mille e arrivederci.
