First of all I'd like to explain the title:
Travels Into Several Remote Nations Of The World is the original title for Jonathan Swift's classic 'Gulliver's travels', but since for now I want to travel through Europe and maybe China and Russia next year, I left out the 'Remote' bit. My name's not Gulliver, neither am I gullible, which might have been a recognisable link to Swift's work, so I decided to go for the original name, which might be original but then again not very recognisable...
You might still wonder why I chose to pay my homage to Swift; Well to be honest I read Gulliver's travels after deciding to name my blog this way, and neither have I ever read any other work from Swift. So that still leaves the question: Why the fuck this name?
The clue is in the heading of this post. Being 1.92m is above average but not that tall for a German, but luckily Germany is my homecountry, so my travels will be taking me to places elsewhere. Apart from that I grew up in England where the average height is not that high, which lead to me (just 1.92) being cockey about my height, apart from being self-deprecating:)
Having read the book, I also saw many similarities between his travels and my planned travels.
My main aim, at least on my travels through Europe this summer, will be to get to know lots of different people; see the diversity in the cities I travel through. For that I have thought up a way to record the progress of that goal: I will take an empty book or blog and some pens with me, and I want every person I meet along the way to fill an entire page and on the other page I will put the person's name and photo. Let's see how that works out...
Travelling through Sandinavia, I'll probably even meet some giants and perhaps I'll even talk to a horse...
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