SC - Re: sca-cooks V1 #1884 - Spanish Penguins

[Kay Loidolt]

At 1:31 PM +0000 2/11/00, Nanna Rognvaldardottir wrote:

>And a certain museum I´m not mentioning.

Is a certain museum in Reykjavik I would be happy to mention--the one 
with lots of jewelery and other interesting stuff--open again? It was 
closed when I was last there, to my great disappointment.

For me, the real thrill of my visit to Iceland last year was being 
given a guided tour of Thingvellir by a retired scholar who obviously 
knew everything that is known about what happened where, how the 
landscape has changed, etc. We wandered around through the drizzle 
being enthusiastic at each other. I ended up telling him that you 
people should put it back the way you found it--although I'm afraid 
that would require some cooperation from nature that you aren't 
likely to get.

On the subject of honeymoon sites. We went to Europe for a couple of 
weeks last summer with the kids--I was giving talks in Germany to 
promote a translation of a book of mine. We flew into London, which 
was less expensive than flying direct (and got me a few hours in the 
British Museum looking at the world's most beautiful jewelery) then 
took a night train across Europe to Vienna (my daughter's idea). 
Sitting in the breakfast room of a nice hotel in Vienna, remembering 
the breakfast room of  a tourist hotel in London, really brought home 
to me the superiority of Austria to England in certain dimensions. To 
Iceland, too, although that wasn't the comparision in my mind at the 
time. And to everywhere else I can think of, probably including 
France.

Fresh pastry of multiple sorts. Several varieties of yogurt, probably 
made by the hotel. Truly ripe fruit. Smoked salmon. Fresh cheese. 
Herring. Sausages (not English sausages).  ...

David Friedman
Professor of Law
Santa Clara University
ddfr at best.com
http://www.best.com/~ddfr/