If I Were a Time Traveller

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ythology and since then, there has been a plethora of fiction written about it – some of the children’s literature is totally believable – even for adults; well, me anyway. It’s easy to believe you can step through a door in an old English manor and walk into another century.If I could travel in time, and place, I’d travel back to the nineteenth century. I’d live in Gruyères Castle, Switzerland — a comfortable but not overly opulent existence. I can imagine myself living there. Beautiful in summer and winter. I wouldn’t be a queen or a princess, but I’d be some sort of Swiss nobility — I wouldn’t want to be emptying their chamber-pots!I’d be well-educated and speak French, German and Italian so I could walk through the village conversing with everyone. I’d have freshly-baked baguettes and cheese fondue for lunch every day, and a healthy assortment of meat and vegetables for dinner

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— maybe even steak tartare on occasion. I wouldn’t be fat because I would walk everywhere — even down to the newly-built station to welcome visitors.There’d be no technology to deal with — no phones, no computers, no internet, no television, no mod cons at all — I often think I was born in the wrong century— one hundred years earlier would be perfect for me. Not even the radio had been invented. Huge fireplaces to keep warm in winter, and wood stoves for cooking meals. A high four-poster bed to sleep in and a supply of Jane Austen to lull me to sleep at night, a piano in the great hall to provide music for entertainment or parties.No cars or traffic or road rage or alarm clocks or security devices — what an uncomplicated life that would be!If you could time travel, where would you go to? Would you go back in time, or head forward to the future?</article></body>

I’d travel back to the late 1800s

Ellie Jacobson ✍🏻 said yesterday was “Pretend To Be A Time Traveler Day”. I often imagine I’m living in another century, especially when I’m travelling in Europe, so this day is right up my alley.

It was created in 2007 but I’ve never heard of it till now. The dream that the human race might one day be able to travel through time is almost as old as time itself. The first known mention of time travel is in ancient Hindu mythology and since then, there has been a plethora of fiction written about it – some of the children’s literature is totally believable – even for adults; well, me anyway. It’s easy to believe you can step through a door in an old English manor and walk into another century.

If I could travel in time, and place, I’d travel back to the nineteenth century. I’d live in Gruyères Castle, Switzerland — a comfortable but not overly opulent existence. I can imagine myself living there. Beautiful in summer and winter. I wouldn’t be a queen or a princess, but I’d be some sort of Swiss nobility — I wouldn’t want to be emptying their chamber-pots!

I’d be well-educated and speak French, German and Italian so I could walk through the village conversing with everyone. I’d have freshly-baked baguettes and cheese fondue for lunch every day, and a healthy assortment of meat and vegetables for dinner — maybe even steak tartare on occasion. I wouldn’t be fat because I would walk everywhere — even down to the newly-built station to welcome visitors.

There’d be no technology to deal with — no phones, no computers, no internet, no television, no mod cons at all — I often think I was born in the wrong century— one hundred years earlier would be perfect for me. Not even the radio had been invented. Huge fireplaces to keep warm in winter, and wood stoves for cooking meals. A high four-poster bed to sleep in and a supply of Jane Austen to lull me to sleep at night, a piano in the great hall to provide music for entertainment or parties.

No cars or traffic or road rage or alarm clocks or security devices — what an uncomplicated life that would be!

If you could time travel, where would you go to? Would you go back in time, or head forward to the future?