Time Travel - Europe
 

OK, I wanna "troll" here! So... you have a chance to "time travel" for 1 week. Where would you go? What would you want to see? Experience? (You'll get another week next year so its not one of those "all or nothing" things).

The Renaissance period in Florence would be very interesting, but maybe less so for women. The same could be said for a lot of times and places. So if we have to go back with our own gender, that makes the choice tougher. It would be enjoyable to be in Paris in the 1920s, and gender issues and pestilent disease would be less of a concern.

Jerusalem. Passover, <i>A.D.</i> 33.

Oops. Europe.

Okay. Hastings, 1066.

Actually, I think I have done that, but in a previous life. I think I was a Captain in the private guard for Lorenzo di Medici circa 1500.

Hmm, Bob. The thing is when someone says something like that nowadays, I never know if they are serious or kidding. :)

Its all good - I think I was Diane dePortiers...

Mine's kinda embarrassing, but here goes... I'd like to be an 11th or 12th century Venetian courtesan, as in the movie &quot;Dangerous Beauty&quot;. I'm blushing just typing it...

Can I change mine?

Venice, 11th or 12th Century.

I would go to approx 15,000,000,000 to watch the beginning of the universe.

Paris, early fall, 1870. The light was exceptionally good that year for my paintings.

I would go back to Amsterdam five years ago to see if my spouse was having an affair.

8 November 1923, Munich. To do you-know-what to you-know-who.

ira,

did that take place in Europe? Are you French?

Definitely the Renaissance Period in Florence. Of course, if that was boring, I'd try to hook up with Iregeo in 11th or 12th century Venice. :S- I don't think my wife would miss me for a week. Well.....
((H))

I've always wanted to hang out with Michelangelo while he painted the Sistine Chapel. Based on all I've read about him, he sounds like someone I'd like to meet. This would be a good chance to do so!

Maitai, your wife would be able to pick her own week too you know!! Where do you think she would go?


I think I would ride around with Napoleon or Hanibal or go hang out with Jesus.

Hi robes,

I meant &quot;go back&quot;.

Gardyloo,

Why not go back to 1889 and drown the SOB?

When was Anna Kournakova last at Wimbledon?

Lets see, when did they come up with flush toilets, tooth brushes, and deoderant? That's as far back as I would go... I know, I'm just not romantic at all..oh yea..and Depends..just kidding.

<i>I would go to approx 15,000,000,000 to watch the beginning of the universe</i>

Sounds good, but where would you sit?

If Socrates and Plato were giving seminars, I'd try to find a seat somewhere. Possibly with day trips to Viking Scandinavia and Tudor England. I'm sure I'd end up burned at the stake somewhere before the week was up.

Gardyloo and Ira - Well Said.

I would go to 1920's Paris and hang out with Hemingway at Sylvia Beachs' bookstore. Then I would go back and spend time with Shakespeare and then zip back to spend time with Michaelangelo.

The London of Elizabeth and Old Will.

I'd go pester Leonardo da Vinci with a lot of stupid questions (&quot;What are you drawing?&quot;, How come you write backwards with your left hand?.&quot; &quot;Is the Mona Lisa really you?&quot; &quot;What's all this hullaballoo about some code?&quot; &quot;Just how did you paint that one picture...the one with no discernible brush strokes?&quot; &quot;How many hours a night do you sleep?&quot; &quot;Do you sleep?&quot; &quot;Did you ever get in trouble with you mom for drawing on the walls with crayons?&quot;

&gt;If Socrates and Plato were giving seminars, I'd try to find a seat somewhere. &lt;

It's all Greek to me.

<i>Why not go back to 1889 and drown the SOB?</i>

Actually akin to the plot of an interesting book by Stephen Fry (aka Jeeves) - <i>Making History</i>. Sort of in the &quot;alternate history&quot; genre (one of my favorite niches of literature). 20th C birth control pills slipped into AH's mum's tea.

I understand the sentiments...but errr..um.... my &quot;game&quot; was not to enable anyone to CHANGE history (my sci-fi reading has assured me the repercussions might be catastrophic.)

I just wanted my time machine to let us Observe and learn ...

Ask Michaelangelo silly questions...
hehehehe...

I think my screen name reveals where I'd want to go. Anselm Adorne (1424-1483) was a burgomaster and merchant trader in Bruges. I'd be living in the Hotel Jerusalem, the family home, and praying in the Jerusalemkirk, the family church.

It was a fascinating era, beautifully described in Dorothy Dunnett's House of Niccolo series. The Jerusalmkirk still stands and is open to the public. For those who love Dame Dunnett's books, it's a pilgrimage site.

Anselm

Oh, I love this question, SuzieC! Time travel has always been a fantasy of mine. Sometimes I wish I could leap into some old photographs or pictures and experience life in that time and place for even just a day.

I would go along with Robespierre, that Jerusalem in about 33 AD would be at the top of my list, too, for it would probably prove a life transforming experience.

Other than that, I've always wanted to visit Restoration Era England and meet some of the great minds that spawned the modern era: Newton (though he wasn't very nice), Chr. Wren, Boyle, Hooke, Locke and others. And I'd even get to dress up in very fancy clothes - providing I have a good amount of money with which to do it, of course.

I'm a classical music buff so Vienna in the 1780s would be another choice with all that wonderful music everywhere. And what wouldn't I give to be a fly on the wall when Mozart welcomed a teenage Beethoven to his home one day in 1787?

A Paris salon in the 1830s to hear Chopin play his sublime compositions would be pretty amazing too!

Delft or Amsterdam of the 1660s would be worth the visit, too. Maybe Rembrandt and Vermeer could use another model for a little while? And I'd have the rare privilege of becoming a masterpiece! :-D

I could go on and on, but I'd probably put some of you to sleep-

Happy fantasizing!

Much more recent than most but Berlin 1989, watch the wall come down.

Here's a different thought. I would like to spend a week with my great great great grandparents, to see what their lives were really like. Or I would like to be with either of my grandfathers for the first week they arrived in the US.

This thread reminds me of one of my favorite movies, &quot;Somewhere in Time,&quot; with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeves.

There are so many fine ideas here, but if I could travel through time, I would opt for the future, not the past. I'm not sure where I would go, but it would be fascinating to know what's ahead for this world.

I would have loved to be on that voyage in 1492. Do you think Queen Isabella and Christopher C had a &quot;special&quot; relationship? I asked this question while at the Alcazar in Segovia where Isabel was crowned. The very young museum guide was not amused...

Juan-les-Pins in Provence in the 1920's so I could mingle with the Scott Fitzgeralds, Gerald Murphys, Ernest Hemingway, and all that crowd.

And then London in the time of Shakespeare so I could see his plays first produced.