Sunday, March 22, 2020

Sunday Five - City Life

This latest adventure was a little bit city, a whole lot of countryside.  We started out with three days in Dublin, a day in London (we went to London to have dinner with long time friends, we were there just over 24 hours.) When we returned to Ireland, the rest of the trip was in areas that the sheep out number the people - oh and a golf course a terrible waste of sheep pasture.  

Sunday Five - City Life:
1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? 
2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? 
3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? 
4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? 
5: What is the meaning of the art above? 

My answers: 
1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? Florence Italy, I could die there. 
2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? London feels like a second home to me, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life.  
3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? Via the route we traveling about 370 miles, 288 as the crow flies, but I am not a crow. 
4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? Depends, both. 
5: What is the meaning of the art above? I think Epictetus would get the joke. 

Please share your answers in the comments.  


16 comments:

  1. 1: philly (of course)

    2: london

    3: rehoboth beach, DE

    4: both

    5: fill your mind with all things beautiful (and gay and colorful)

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    1. Maybe if Epictetus had more rainbows in his life, he would have been more positive.

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  2. 1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? Buenos Aires

    2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? London

    3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? Balitmore.
    4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? Taxis or Uber

    5: What is the meaning of the art above? Be happy and enjoy art. Take the time to notice things.

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  3. 1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? I can't possibly be pinned down on this one. Amsterdam, Netherlands; Bergen, Norway; Florence, Italy; Sevilla, Spain; Seattle, Washington; Boston, Massachusetts...
    2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? London
    3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? Just for dinner... a few hours by car.
    4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? Mass transit, but trains, not buses.
    5: What is the meaning of the art above? If Bobbie McFerrin lived in the time of Epictetus, it all would have been more succinct.

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    1. I love Florence, agree that trains are the way to go.

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  4. 1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? San Francisco.

    2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? London.

    3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? I flew 3000 miles to surprise a friend on the night before her wedding.

    4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? I like both.

    5: What is the meaning of the art above? Life is too short, and all you really get is happiness, so take it!

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    1. 3000 miles is likely the winner

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  5. London. Spent a week there, and the list of things I didn't get to see and do is still so long!

    Farthest travel for dinner with friends. If it's just for dinner - 5 hours' drive. To celebrate a friend's getting her Masters.

    I'm in the US. We don't really have mass transit. Though I used the trains a lot when I lived in Chicago. Was very impressed with London's tubes, but I'm glad I took a taxi ride.

    That art is a rejection of Epictetus and his Stoicism - take the lid off the fortitude and endurance, let the sun shine and be happy!

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    1. WInner on the Stoics, love London, we did both the tube and taxis on our recent trip.

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  6. Sunday Five - City Life:
    1: I know it can be hard to choose, but what is your favorite city in the world? London--I've been a number of times. I never get tired of it.
    2: Given a choice of spending a week in London, or a week on a farm a mile from the nearest paved road, which would you choose? London!
    3: What is the farthest you have traveled to have dinner with long time friends? About 200 miles to see old friends from time spent teaching in Germany.
    4: Do you prefer mass transit, or taxis? I don't have too much experience with either.
    5: What is the meaning of the art above? I don't have a clue.

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  7. 1: I've never thought of it. I suppose at the moment it is Palm Springs for all it has - or used to have - for me.
    2: a week in London - it wouldn't be long enough.
    3: Flagstaff - 3 hours.
    4: mass transit
    5: it is evil satire. it deserves to be defaced.

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    1. By being defaced is it suffering, and isn't life just a series of sufferings?

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  8. Anonymous3/22/2020

    1. Budapest.
    2. London.
    3. Maybe one hour's driving, which is not so far in the city but quite a distances into the country.
    4. Mass transport, or as we know it, public transport. Well I did until.......
    5. Open your head and let the joy of a rainbow pour in.

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    1. I read that a few places are starting to make public transit, public, eliminating fares on local routes. Washington DC has started boarding all buses from the rear doors only, effectively eliminating fare collection for the duration of the viral pandemic.

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