Getting There is Half the Fun
With so many elaborate honeymoon travel plans, I do hope Father approves the match. Still, I’ve graduated now, and I feel like I’m so near my goal, and getting nearer to it all the time! Let’s just keep some basic rules of travel in mind. The best day to travel is Thursday the 12th, January 2012, as early in the morning as possible (unless you’re flying, in which case you can travel any day, at any time).
A Numbers Game | Go to the Head of the Class |
Nobel Prize winning novelist who drew on the history of his native Bosnia for his material (Starting in Budapest) |
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Russian writer and fervent Christian anarcho-pacifist, who has been played on film or TV by Christopher Plummer and Michael Gough (Starting in Helsinki) |
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Surname of 19th century Republican US President or capital city of a Midwestern US state (Starting in Chicago) |
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Czech writer who popularised the word “robot” (coined by his brother) and wrote a play which featured robots, which was one of the earliest science-fiction plays (Starting in Nuremburg) |
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Surname of the Polish renaissance astronomer who championed a cosmology where the Earth was not the center of the universe (Starting in Amsterdam) |
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Pen name of the French writer who served as part of Napoleon’s army in the invasion of Russia and who moved to Milan after the war, and who gave his name to the psychosomatic illness that causes palpitations when an individual is exposed to particularly beautiful art (Starting in Paris) |
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Surname of the eponymous heroine of Puccini’s opera set in Rome in 1800 (Starting in Vienna) |
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Arguably the most popular German movie actor of the 20th century, he appeared in over a hundred silent films, in the first German talkie in 1929, and then went on to be the biggest German movie star from 1930-1945. A square in his native Hamburg was renamed for him after his death in 1960 (Starting in Hamburg) |
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Born as James Howlett, this fictional character is the best at what he does, but what he does isn’t very nice (Starting in Chicago) |
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This surrealist painter, sculptor, photographer and filmmaker has permanent exhibitions devoted to his work in Montmartre in Paris and near St. Mark’s Square in Venice, as well as in his native Catalonia (Starting in Barcelona) |
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Surname of the Polish composer known as the “Poet of the Piano” (Starting in Warsaw) |
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Legendary libertine eponymous protagonist of one of Mozart’s most popular operas (Starting in Vienna) |
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Jewish Austro-Hungarian composer of operettas during the “silver age” of Viennese Operetta. During the Second World War, he emigrated (temporarily) to the United States (Starting in Munich) |
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Isn’t Air Travel Amazing?