Atlas Hugged?

[ahi]

Here's my suggestion:

Location: Szeged, Hungary

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&sour...h&z=11&iwloc=A

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged

Main sights (check out the water tower):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Szeged#Main_sights

Interlinked navigable panoramic pictures:
http://www.360cities.net/image/tisza...szeged-hungary

1: A Romani wedding

http://www.geocities.com/~patrin/marriage.htm
http://www.demotix.com/news/romani-w...utka-macedonia
http://romove.radio.cz/en/clanek/18091

2: A bottle of "Tokaji Nectar" (i.e.: "Tokaji Eszencia", wine... sort of)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaji#...of_Tokaji_wine

3: The Coffin of Attila the Hun, as per the Legend

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_...taly_and_death

Then they celebrated a strava (lamentation) over [Attila's] burial place with great feasting. Legend says that he was laid to rest in a triple coffin made of gold, silver, and iron, along with some of the spoils of his conquests. His men diverted a section of the river Tisza, buried the coffin under the riverbed, and then were killed to keep the exact location a secret.

- Ahi

[zelda_pinwheel]

wow, that sounds brilliant ahi. can't wait to read what moejoe will do with it.

[ahi]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

wow, that sounds brilliant ahi. can't wait to read what moejoe will do with it.

Thanks, Zelda! It is perhaps worth adding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisza

The length of the [river] Tisza in Hungary used to be 1419 km. It flowed through the Great Hungarian Plain, which is one of the largest flat areas in central Europe. Since plains can cause a river to flow very slowly, the Tisza used to follow a path with many curves and turns, which led to many large floods in the area.

After several small-scale attempts, István Széchenyi organised the "control of the Tisza" (Hungarian: a Tisza szabályozása) which started on August 27, 1846 and substantially ended in 1880. The new length of the river in Hungary was 966 km, with 589 km of "dead channels" and 136 km of new riverbed.

The resultant length of the flood-protected river comprises 2,940 km (out of 4,220 km of all Hungarian protected rivers) which forms one of the largest flood protection systems in Europe; larger than the Netherlands' 1,500 km, the Po River's 1,400 km, or the Loire Valley's 480 km.

... so Attila's coffin need not necessarily lie underneath the Tisza still.

- Ahi

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ahi

Thanks, Zelda! It is perhaps worth adding:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tisza

... so Attila's coffin need not necessarily lie underneath the Tisza still.

- Ahi

oooh, a mystery !

[ahi]

Couldn't MobileRead.com appoint--with a quasi-Princely allowance--Moejoe its writer-in-residence? I don't want to wait for months of night-shifts to be over before reading the quirky stories that God himself (herself?) must demand read anon (on his/her silver Sony PRS-505).

- Ahi

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by ahi

Couldn't MobileRead.com appoint--with a quasi-Princely allowance--Moejoe its writer-in-residence? I don't want to wait for months of night-shifts to be over before reading the quirky stories that God himself (herself?) must demand read anon (on his/her silver Sony PRS-505).

- Ahi

well, i would certainly be all for that solution !!

hm, maybe we should bring the google ads back...

[dreams]

I had a glimmer of an idea of a place and then I read ....

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Okay I'm going to put this idea on hold for a bit as I've just found out I'll be working a crapload of night-shifts in the upcoming months. So writing has to be put on hold for awhile in favour of earning a living

So sorry, Moejoe. I really hate when life's little necessities (mortgage, gas, food, medical ins) get in the way of my enjoying life.

So.... place holder for an idea... Mesa Verde National Park.

Can't wait for you to have the time to put this fun project together.

(In the meantime cross your fingers and chant."I'm lucky to have a job. I'm lucky to have a job."--- A lot of us on this side of the pond use this chant quite often.)

[montsnmags]

Originally Posted by ahi

...
2: A bottle of "Tokaji Nectar" (i.e.: "Tokaji Eszencia", wine... sort of)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tokaji#...of_Tokaji_wine

...

To hell with technicalities, I'd say "wine", and I'd say "one of the world's finest" (though, with the technicality that I've only ever had Aszú...perhaps I should just instead say "One of my most desired..." ).

Cheers,
Marc

[ahi]

Originally Posted by montsnmags

To hell with technicalities, I'd say "wine", and I'd say "one of the world's finest" (though, with the technicality that I've only ever had Aszú...perhaps I should just instead say "One of my most desired..." ).

Cheers,
Marc

He he. Also a fan, I see!

Well, as the saying goes, "Vinum Regum, Rex Vinorum"--"Wine of Kings, King of Wines".

- Ahi

[Moejoe]

Originally Posted by dreams

I had a glimmer of an idea of a place and then I read ....



So sorry, Moejoe. I really hate when life's little necessities (mortgage, gas, food, medical ins) get in the way of my enjoying life.

So.... place holder for an idea... Mesa Verde National Park.

Can't wait for you to have the time to put this fun project together.

(In the meantime cross your fingers and chant."I'm lucky to have a job. I'm lucky to have a job."--- A lot of us on this side of the pond use this chant quite often.)

Well I have an unexpected night off. A combination of rain, stupidity and good fortune have brought about this singular reprieve. I will be writing tonight, but it won't be the Atlas Hugged project. I think I'll have to cancel it altogether until I have some definitive time on my hands.

In better news, I found a tennis ball earlier on. You know it's summer when you find rogue tennis balls wherever you're walking

[zelda_pinwheel]

rain, stupidity and good fortune, eh ? sounds like a story is in there to me...

i hope you'll get to Atlas hugged soon but i'll be glad to read anything you can manage to set down.

can it be summertime without rogue tennis balls ? i don't think i've ever found one...

[Moe The Cat]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

... can it be summertime without rogue tennis balls ? i don't think i've ever found one...

Go on the roof of your local school (if said school has a nice, empty brick wall next to a paved parking lot) and you should find lots. I always lost several up there every summer.

Originally Posted by Moejoe

Well I have an unexpected night off. A combination of rain, stupidity and good fortune have brought about this singular reprieve. I will be writing tonight, but it won't be the Atlas Hugged project. I think I'll have to cancel it altogether until I have some definitive time on my hands.

Moejoe ... I gotta have more cowbell! (Gratuitous Christopher Walken reference)

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by Moe The Cat

Go on the roof of your local school (if said school has a nice, empty brick wall next to a paved parking lot) and you should find lots. I always lost several up there every summer.

hm. rogue tennis balls on the roof of the... school.



this situation seems like it has great potential to me, in so many ways.