Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (3-k) : 人生初めての長旅 - スイスのジュネーブからフランス、ベルギーへ

ロンさんのヨーロッパ旅行記に戻ります。スイスのジュネーブからフランスのボルドー、パリ。そしてベルギーへと旅を続けます。

From Geneva, I took the train to Bordeaux, France and spent a day in the French wine country. I met a Japanese person there who was also traveling like me. At the winery there was a visitor’s registration sign-in log. He drew a beautiful picture of Japan in the registration book. I’ll never forget that.

From Bordeaux, I traveled to Paris and met the American girls I met in Italy. That is where they were studying. They showed me around and told me how to get around. Next to London, Paris has the best subway in Europe. Paris is the world of fashion and art.

From Paris, I went to Belgium and spent a day or two with one of my sister Israeli kibbutz member’s family. There is a lot of action in Brussels, even though it is in one of the smallest countries in Europe.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。コロナも収束間近。是非、マスクなしで開催したいですね。それとRonさんが楽しみにしている出席者と皆さんとのノミニケーション。年末にはできそうですね。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。



<ご興味のある地域を選んでいただた上で、出張報告をさせていただきます＞

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (3-j) : 人生初めての長旅 - ドイツからスイスへ

WHOがそろそろコロナも終わりかなぁと言い始めましたね。朗報です。自由に移動できたことは、幸せなことだったのだと改めて思います。

さて、ロンさんのヨーロッパ旅行記に戻ります。

From Munich, I was off to Switzerland. I wanted to get out of the larger cities, so I headed for Interlaken and Grindelwald, Switzerland. If there ever were a place that you want to tuck yourself away in and write a book, that is it. With extremely slow moving trains winding in the hills and rolling slopes that are breathtaking in beauty, it is a great place for inspiration.

From there I was off to Geneva, the French-speaking side of Switzerland. It is amazing that Switzerland can be one country with German spoken in the north, Italian spoken in the south and French spoken in the west.

From Interlaken, Swiss (German-speaking side) I traveled to Geneva, the French-speaking side of Switzerland. Geneva is one of the most international cities I know, even though the spoken language is French. Many non-governmental organizations are there (IMF, WHO, GATT [now WTO], etc.).

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。コロナも収束間近。是非、マスクなしで開催したいですね。それとRonさんが楽しみにしている出席者と皆さんとのノミニケーション。年末にはできそうですね。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (3-i) : 人生初めての長旅 - ドイツの続き

ビール党にはたまらないドイツの旅。でも、ご存知の悲惨な歴史も。

Also, just to the north-east of Munich is Stuttgart, that is the Swabian region of Germany. If you say they are part of Bavaria, they will get angry at you. That is where Porsche, Bosch and Mercedes-Benz world headquarters are. Those two regions have beer drinking contests every year during Oktoberfest. I had a customer one hour from Stuttgart and went there often. In the center of Stuttgart they would construct large tents for beer drinking during Oktoberfest.

Just outside of Munich is a city called Dachau. That city is famous for being one of the German concentration camps during World War II. The main concentration camp is in southern Poland, called Auschwitz. Over six million Jewish people were killed in those camps. That was a shock for me to see which I’ll never forget. I mentioned my mother is Jewish and that I started this trip visiting my sister in Israel. Well, you could say that the whole country of Israel was created by the Holocaust. The European Jews (including the German Jews) were so shocked over it that they moved to Israel and the country was officially established in 1948, interestingly the year I was born. In the many times I visited Israel after that, I would always meet people that had relatives in those camps.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。セミナーを開催しようと計画するとコロナ感染が拡大。ネットで開催も可能ですが、Ronさんが楽しみにしているのは、出席者と皆さんとのノミニケーション。やはりリアルで開催しよう。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。

Ron McFarlandの Personal Journey (3-h) : 人生初めての長旅 - ドイツ・ミュンヘンでのへべれけの夜

朗報：
海外で現地出国前72時間以内に行う必要があったPCR検査が9月7日午前0時から不要になるとのこと。具体的には、搭乗する航空機の到着予定時刻が、９月７日午前０時（日本時間）以降の入国者が新たな措置の対象とのこと。これで「渡航先で陽性になったらどうしよう」という心配がなくなる。もう少しの我慢！！
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さて、Ron-san、オーストリアから夜行列車でドイツのミュンヘンへ。ミュンヘンと言えば・・・・・

From Vienna, I took another overnight train to Munich（ミュンヘン）, Germany. In Munich, all I can remember was drinking more beer than my body was prepared for. In the hostel, I met a couple of traveling American girls, and they wanted to go out on the town. So, off we went. In a beer hall, we met a couple of Danish guys traveling around. I think everyone in the whole place was plastered, and a German fellow came over to us. He had heard us speaking in English, and he wanted to voice his views of American policy on a few issues. I don’t remember what the issues were, but I do know he was very proud to be German, and the Americans were somehow inferior. Anyway, the five of us (the two American girls, the two Danish boys and me) quickly departed. At the next place the Danish guys mentioned that is a problem they have with the Germans. Also, they mentioned that Denmark is the largest countries in Europe. They included Greenland, a Danish territory. Anyway, I spent the rest of the night with my head in the toilet. Munich was also a beautiful city to me and a city of great engineering. Years later, I would travel there many times on business. It is in the heart of Bavaria（バイエルン）, the southern region in Germany and where BMW headquarters is.

Ronさんのセミナーいかがですか。セミナーを開催しようと計画するとコロナ感染が拡大。ネットで開催も可能ですが、Ronさんが楽しみにしているのは、出席者と皆さんとのノミニケーション。やはりリアルで開催しよう。

皆さんがおやりになっている勉強会などに出張し講演させていただきます。

ただし、Ronさんが住んでいる東京都大田区から日帰りできるところとさせてください。

もっとも台湾でも日帰りは可能ですが。