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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
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#1 I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.
#2 In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route at Keflavik Airport in Reykjavik. The aeroplanes were old and slow. It took a week and a half to reach Keflavik, and another week and a half to bounce on through the skies to Luxembourg.
#3 On the plane, I was seated next to a religious zealot who spent most of the flight reading holy scripture and whispering the words just loud enough for me to hear them. I feared the worst.
#4 I had flown a lot in America, and had never seen anything from an aeroplane window but endless golden fields on farms the size of Belgium. When I landed in Luxembourg, I was amazed by the city’s compactness and European atmosphere.

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	23 mars 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781669358503
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Insights on Bill Bryson's Neither Here nor There
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I wanted to see the Northern Lights, and I had long harbored a half-formed desire to live what life was like in a remote and forbidding place. But now as I picked my way through the grey, late-December slush of Oslo, I was beginning to have my doubts.

#2

In 1972, I went to Europe for the first time. I flew from New York to Luxembourg, with a refuelling stop en route at Keflavik Airport in Reykjavik. The aeroplanes were old and slow. It took a week and a half to reach Keflavik, and another week and a half to bounce on through the skies to Luxembourg.

#3

On the plane, I was seated next to a religious zealot who spent most of the flight reading holy scripture and whispering the words just loud enough for me to hear them. I feared the worst.

#4

I had flown a lot in America, and had never seen anything from an aeroplane window but endless golden fields on farms the size of Belgium. When I landed in Luxembourg, I was amazed by the city’s compactness and European atmosphere.

#5

I hitchhiked into Belgium, and was picked up by a couple who argued in the front seat. I was sure they were going to kill me, and was terrified, but the couple were very friendly. They spoke good English and told me they worked as traveling shoe salesmen.

#6

I had never been away from home before. I was on a strange continent where they didn’t speak my language. I had just traveled 4,000 miles in a chest freezer with wings. I had not slept for thirty hours, or washed for twenty-nine.

#7

I spent a summer traveling around Europe. It was the happiest summer I had ever spent. I enjoyed it so much that I came home and tipped the contents of my rucksack into an incinerator. I returned the next summer with a high-school friend named Stephen Katz.

#8

I decided to visit Europe and see the Northern Lights. I would start in the North Cape, the northernmost point of the European mainland, and make my way south to Istanbul, taking in as many places as I could.

#9

I was the last person in the line at the Swedish border, and I smoked many cigarettes outside while waiting for my food. I returned to the bus and found that the line was only slightly depleted. I took a tray and selected nothing. I had a dread of ever inadvertently ordering liver, which I so much detest that I am going to have to leave you here for a minute and go throw up in the wastebasket.

#10

I was traveling with the Norwegian bus group Framtiden i våre hender. We were woken early for another rest stop, this time in Finland. I was as far north as you can go by public transport.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I took a room in the Håja Hotel near the quay. The room was small but comfortable, with a telephone, a small color television, and its own bathroom. I was highly pleased and full of those little pulses of excitement that come with finding yourself in a new place.

#2

I ventured out into the gale. The streets were still deserted, snow piled in the doorways. The wind was playing havoc with the town. I passed three more people, a man and his wife trudging stolidly into town, and they too passed as if I were invisible.

#3

I spent my time in Hammerfest waiting for the Northern Lights to appear. It never did, and everyone told me it was perfect Northern Lights weather. But it never happened.

#4

I began to feel like I was on vacation. I slept for fourteen hours a day, and when I was awake, I did nothing but drink beer and read.