Easy Sudoku for 19/August/2008

World

Good Maen!

2:38 to you all from Beijing.

I have a lot on my plate today so can't hang around this morning. But I just wanted to tell you all (oops, I mean y'all) if you missed the last posts from yesterday to check out Rayray's poem to Bean. It is hysterical! And since the "plunnel" is now a viable transportation vehicle, I plan to take it as well for the second leg of my fantasy voyage. So watch out, Rayray, you're going to have more company! CU all later!

So many people seem to like train travel. I love it. I wonder what the greatest distance would be by train only? France to China via Russia .Scandinavia to Singapore? I must start studying railways. Any ideas you train enthusiasts?

Hi Sue and Jane and anyone else who post before I type this, haven't been up this late in a long while.

Maen all! Not quite what I had in mind for brekky, but can't resist these yummy critters!

Bean can you make your plunnel dual carriageway as I think there will be two way traffic

Hey Jane will meet you there, look out Rayray for an invasion!!

Good Maen all-- nice to be able to do a puzzle before the day gets too busy today!! Well-- we moved our son into his first apartment this last weekend, and on Thursday our youngest daughter departs for 4 months in Strassbourg France-- the house will be amazingly quiet again. Supposed to be a hot one today here in Naperville-- Stay cool ( and dry for those in Florida or the path of Faye)

Hi Broni, Jane (have a grand day), GMo, Jim (how's China treating you?), and Sue!

Sue b - empty nest (all be it hot!)
Thanks for reminding us to keep our southern friends in our prayers re: Faye

Hi, Jane, Jim, Mo, Broni, Vici, Sueb

Vici I will be having a grand sleep, time for this little black duck to say goodnight and to the topsiders have a great day!

Ok Mo, why can't I have 5 stops???

Sweet dreams, Broni - and go easy tomorrow at work. (nag)

GMo - I'm still reeling from my whirl-wind world tour yesterday. I have one for us...if I may be permitted...You can have a one-on-one with one person (dead or alive) and ask any question (or 2) and they must answer honestly. Who would that be?

Good one Vici.
That will need some thought. Can it be anyone family ancestor? or famous person?

Vici, that is an easy one for me. I have a question for my mother, she would not answer this question when she was alive.

Sue the theory behind it is that with careful thought you should be able to visit the world. There are 5 continents. You live on one of them. So you should be able to make four more stops and visit them all

Hope I don't have to say what the question is!!!

Not here, where is Keith?

Sorry mate, still looking for a statue!

GMo - absolutely anyone!

and no language barriers, either!

1:51 everyone! Hope you all had a good weekend. And I must say, that looks really tasty!

Sue - I want to know the question!!! oh course, it really is none of my business!

Good to see you Koguma - missed you this past weekend!

Gannie Mo, I Goggled " Longest train route" and found this site. someone is claiming they made the longest possible train ride, in the year 2000.

"In 2000, to celebrate the millennium, I took a train ride. In fact it was not a short ride; rather, it was made up of 30 different trains and it took 60 days, though in retrospect it seemed like a very short ride. And it was not across the world; it was merely as long as a train ride can possibly be, from the southeast corner of Asia in the equatorial Pacific, to the northwest corner of Europe, in Arctic Scandinavia. The idea was to view as much of the world as possible, both contiguously and continuously, by train. Along the way I observed the world from three vantage points: from train windows, from inside the great bazaar of the train itself, and from brief but relatively intense walks (again, the theme of continuous movement) through cities and countryside in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, China, Turkistan, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary, Czech Republic, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway. There are more images and an on-line journal at the Runaway Trains web site. "

http://www.pbase.com/enthios/runawaytrains

There is a photo gallery if you are interested.

Who says cats and dogs don't get along?
Latest Sammi and Houpette photo in my gallery

MizTricia, thank you and I suppose there is nothing to stop you coming back down to Germany the around Holland Belgiun France and Spain before heading across to Italy

I missed you too! My boyfriend got sick so I got to spend the weekend playing doctor. But he is on the mend now.

Maen all - Hope everyone's having a great day/night!

MzT - that is an interesting trip by train. I just would've wanted longer stops along the way if I was there.

everyone! Have to go to school. I have a room to prepare!

Keith is asleep in Victoria, BC, Canada!

What the @#$%^&*! is cooking on that grill??

As to the question I posed...there are so many interesting choices - but I think I'll hang my hat on Amelia Earhart, and of course my questions would center around what happened to her.

Great minds Vici That length journey would have needed at least 6 months. He must have been exhausted 30 trains in 60 days and I bet they weren't as luxurious as the Indian-Pacific.

Shosho - have fun in your room - it will be so peaceful without the students!

My question will either be to my grandfather who died in 1911 aged 26 having refused medical treatment and to ask him why as he had a young pregnant wife.
My other choice, like Vici, is to someone who disappeared without trace, Jim Thompson, who disappeare in Malaysia, What happened Jim?