Wow! I really am in tears as I realise the amazing privilege I have just experienced!
I actually sat and ate lunch where the Napoleonic supporters sat (in the Napoleonic wars) this afternoon.
I am still in awe...
Accidentally, by serendipitous happenings, I went to have a traditional meal and look what I found.
I am deeply humbled, that the man who sold off 1/3rd of America at the time, in the Great Louisiana Land Deal...(Napoleon), that I really sat and ate where his supporters sat and ate!
I am still in awe now as I write this.
Did you know that Napoleon had a promissory note worth 11 million dollars in the mid 1800’s...to sell about one third of all the land in America, as it was then?
He needed money to fight his wars in central Europe...Prague?...and he sold this note off for 8 million dollars...huge money then and he got the cash up front and went and did his thing.
(The guy he sold it to waited and got the 11 million dollars from the note...my $6,000 seminar was about promissory notes, options etc.)
I learned about this Great Louisiana land deal when I did a $6,000 land option course last year and never thought any more about it. I understood the option and promissory note idea he sold it for, similar to Bill Gates buying the DOS idea for a $2 option fee paid upfront, then paying the guy the 50K later when he got the money ... and as far as all were concerned at the time...that was that!
Napoleon did it hundreds of years ago, so there’s nothing new about the idea...dohhh!
And...I sat where his supporters sat, walked the cobblestones his supporters walked... in the similar rain...wow!
I am soooo humbled...am still in awe, hours later...
Right in the middle of real history...awe...awe...awe...
Can you believe this?
Not that I even understand what Napoleon was all about, but everywhere I go over here, he’s been, seen, sat or tried to conquer!
The Opera Garnier in Paris was commissioned by one of the Napoleons...not sure if it was him or his nephew...but golly gosh...living, pulsating history for sure.
This has really blown my mind to-day...I can’t believe some things I’ve learned for my trade have their pioneer habitats here-abouts...pulse...pulse...pulsating...
I actually sat and ate lunch where the Napoleonic supporters sat (in the Napoleonic wars) this afternoon.
I am still in awe...
Accidentally, by serendipitous happenings, I went to have a traditional meal and look what I found.
I am deeply humbled, that the man who sold off 1/3rd of America at the time, in the Great Louisiana Land Deal...(Napoleon), that I really sat and ate where his supporters sat and ate!
I am still in awe now as I write this.
Did you know that Napoleon had a promissory note worth 11 million dollars in the mid 1800’s...to sell about one third of all the land in America, as it was then?
He needed money to fight his wars in central Europe...Prague?...and he sold this note off for 8 million dollars...huge money then and he got the cash up front and went and did his thing.
(The guy he sold it to waited and got the 11 million dollars from the note...my $6,000 seminar was about promissory notes, options etc.)
I learned about this Great Louisiana land deal when I did a $6,000 land option course last year and never thought any more about it. I understood the option and promissory note idea he sold it for, similar to Bill Gates buying the DOS idea for a $2 option fee paid upfront, then paying the guy the 50K later when he got the money ... and as far as all were concerned at the time...that was that!
Napoleon did it hundreds of years ago, so there’s nothing new about the idea...dohhh!
And...I sat where his supporters sat, walked the cobblestones his supporters walked... in the similar rain...wow!
I am soooo humbled...am still in awe, hours later...
Right in the middle of real history...awe...awe...awe...
Can you believe this?
Not that I even understand what Napoleon was all about, but everywhere I go over here, he’s been, seen, sat or tried to conquer!
The Opera Garnier in Paris was commissioned by one of the Napoleons...not sure if it was him or his nephew...but golly gosh...living, pulsating history for sure.
This has really blown my mind to-day...I can’t believe some things I’ve learned for my trade have their pioneer habitats here-abouts...pulse...pulse...pulsating...
Heading out of my home for 5 weeks and looking for a new place for next 3 weeks... a church on the way...My old hostel is under that green dome in the lower right corner...
It's 1pm and about 10C and looking like rain later on...
Walking from one end of the street to the other end...about 200 or so metres...to my new hostel!
Back again to my cobblestones! They are only laid on a bed of sand and when lorries or trucks come in and turn their wheels sharply, the cobblestones all come adrift!
No comment!
This is the Coffee statement I found last week and promised I'd photograph it for you...
This is the down stairs entrance to my new hostel...I bit the bulllet and went out to-day and found the one I stayed with last time in Prague had moved to a new location just around the hill here. About 200 metres away! Yeahy... Wait until you see the beds! The rooms! awesome!
Looking back to the street from the new hostel entrance. It's right under the castle walls. You look out the window and it's there! Wow. Will take pics next week and show you.
OK...yeah...there are a couple of bubbles bottles on the table...but wait until you hear how this happened! THIS IS THE PLACE that Napoleon's supporters sat in, 150 years ago!... I felt something weird about the place and asked the waitress about it. She scooted off and came back with a laminated info sheet about my feelings...Surreal for sure...
Can you believe my camera battery went flat right here? They said I can come back and take more and better pics later on...Thankfully. But, this is so amazing, I really have trouble believing I actually sat here...let alone, this is where Napoleon's supporters sat...Unreal...
This is the laminated info sheet in about 6 languages...They don't have it on the tables for all to see and learn from, but have it hidden away so only those who feel the feeling get to ask about it actually see it. Weird!!!
This is the room people...this is where the supporters of Napoleon sat and discussed his exploits etc. Who knows if he secretly came here or not? Just imagine...WOW...I am totally blown away. I think more from the fact it was he who sold 1/3 of America off for an 8 million dollar promissory note in 1850's to fund his European exploits...WOW...
Now, this did have some significance at the time...but I have completely forgotten what it was...Too much Napoleon I think...hehehe... Oh, yes, I was testing if I warmed the camera battery under my armpit, would it give an emergency picture...Yup, it sort of did!!!
Plugged my battery into charge for a few mins as soon as I got back here to take this awesome pic of a nice group of Brazilians...Really nice kids...they were eating a meal they cooked in the hostel kitchen and this was a once only shot as they would all disseminate in the next few mins. A great shot of a nice group of kids. The boy in the striped shirt, the one in the red shirt and the boy who you can only see an eye of...they are my dorm buddies for 3 nights in our 10 bed dorm. Really great kids. Just 21 yrs old, the 3 of them. The girls are in the 6 bed dorm in the next room and are of similar ages.
Well, after an amazing day, I wandered home in the 4.30pm darkness, pondering the events of the past 150 years. It really is something else when you are living in the midst of it.
It's now hours later, am sitting in the hostel reception area typing this and am still shaking my head in amazements...I am all amazement...as Lizzie, from "Pride and Prejudice", would say!
While I contemplate all these wonderments...here are the daily tallies...
Total spend...oops, I mean, Total Blowout!
750 cz...yagggghhh...Forgot it was holiday loading to-day...
Had a local soup, a small picallo of bubbles, a pork medallion meal (I'm normally not a pork eater)and apple strudel, then I accidentally ordered a large bottle of bubbles instead of another little picallo, then some potato wedges, then a fruit thing with yoghurt and I was still hungry...can you believe that?
The waitress couldn't, neither could I, so I kept on ordering and eating and they kept on bringing!!!
Anyways, it all came to $37 AUSD...I couldn't believe it!
That was the equivalent of 2 pairs of jeans and 2 tops!
However, because I saved so much ($400) by not going to the New Years Eve ball in Vienna, I did not feel too bad on that utterly outlandish splurge!
Weather...5C now and rain predicted for next 4 days...this must be the most hopeless case of weather prognostications in the world! I don't think they have predicted one day ahead accurately yet!
Dorm buddies...3 Argentinian boys...the guy from Indonesia left to-day and the others who ever they were and wherever they came from...have all gone too. So, it's down to me and three!
See you to-morrow...Will get the better pictures of the Napoleon thing for you in the next few days.
Bye...xxx
It's now hours later, am sitting in the hostel reception area typing this and am still shaking my head in amazements...I am all amazement...as Lizzie, from "Pride and Prejudice", would say!
While I contemplate all these wonderments...here are the daily tallies...
Total spend...oops, I mean, Total Blowout!
750 cz...yagggghhh...Forgot it was holiday loading to-day...
Had a local soup, a small picallo of bubbles, a pork medallion meal (I'm normally not a pork eater)and apple strudel, then I accidentally ordered a large bottle of bubbles instead of another little picallo, then some potato wedges, then a fruit thing with yoghurt and I was still hungry...can you believe that?
The waitress couldn't, neither could I, so I kept on ordering and eating and they kept on bringing!!!
Anyways, it all came to $37 AUSD...I couldn't believe it!
That was the equivalent of 2 pairs of jeans and 2 tops!
However, because I saved so much ($400) by not going to the New Years Eve ball in Vienna, I did not feel too bad on that utterly outlandish splurge!
Weather...5C now and rain predicted for next 4 days...this must be the most hopeless case of weather prognostications in the world! I don't think they have predicted one day ahead accurately yet!
Dorm buddies...3 Argentinian boys...the guy from Indonesia left to-day and the others who ever they were and wherever they came from...have all gone too. So, it's down to me and three!
See you to-morrow...Will get the better pictures of the Napoleon thing for you in the next few days.
Bye...xxx
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