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5:05 pm
November 18, 2010
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In the If you could save her, would you thread, i mentioned a Ray Bradbury book about time travel and the unintended effects of. Then I came across this story Let's go to Golgotha in which the crowd at Jesus's cruxifiction consisted of time travellers condemning Jesus.
Which got me a-thinking..
Who else would you like to visit? And to make it easier…fictional characters as well. Past or future.
eta…I didn't intend to imply that I think Jesus is a fictional character. That was bad writing on my behalf…sorry.
It's always bunnies.
8:13 pm
January 9, 2010
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Going back to Renaissance Florence would be cool. Seeing the likes of Leonardo, Michaelangelo and Raphael at work and to be on hand as people rediscovered the ideals of the classical world would just be amazing. But in no way interfere or change the course of events, obviously 
8:53 pm
November 18, 2010
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Teenage mutant ninga turtles….
oops!
It's always bunnies.
12:38 am
January 17, 2011
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Roman times 
Would love to see the absolute power and might under great Roman leaders.
I would love to see the buildings, Roman baths, and the splendour of Rome. The Gladiatorial schools must have been a sight to see also the actual Gladiators fighting for their lives could you just imagine the sights and sounds of those arena's with all the wild animals waiting to go into the arena's, the fear of both man and beast both exciting and truly terrifying. How I'd love to see it all 
5:01 pm
January 9, 2010
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Anyanka said:
Teenage mutant ninga turtles….
oops!
I knew I forgot someone…. Donatello! LOL!!
2:41 pm
August 3, 2010
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Haha this is going to be a long list, just warning you! So here goes:
Well, obviously Tudor and Elizabethan times (and I might stay if I could!!)
Renaissance Florence (I agree with Bella wholeheartedly)
Anytime between 1200 and 1500 with Native Americans, preferably either with the Plains tribes or the Eastern Woodland tribes
The Roman Republic and the Roman Empire (I would really, really want to meet Julius Caesar in particular, as well as Octavian Caesar)
When Athens was a major power
The Trojan War (who wouldn't want to meet Helen of Troy, Paris, and Achilles? And you said fictional, right?)
Celtic times in the British Isles
The Russian Revolution (but only if I could not be condemned along with the Romanovs, but yet watch them go about their daily lives etc)
The French Revolution (same deal as with the Russian Revolution, but with Marie Antoinette)
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
4:46 pm
June 7, 2010
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Ancient Egypt: especially during the reign of Akhenaten and Queen Nefertiti; Ramses the Great, and Cleopatra.
Medival Africa: when Timkutu was the centre of higher learning.
Tudor England: goes without saying…
Pre-missionisation Africa: I want to see African societies before the coming of colonisation and missionisation.
England in the 12th century so I could meet William Marshall… a knight in shining armour
Mass migration period to Canada (1770's to 1850's) to see what my ancestors encountered in the New World.
Scotland before the 1700's: clans, kilts, and all that stuff, especially before it was all lost at the Battle of Culloden.
"By daily proof you shall find me to be to you both loving and kind" Anne Boleyn
2:07 am
April 11, 2011
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I'd like to find Harold 2nd before October 14th, 1066 and say to him: “Harold, look mate, I have a cunning plan! Don't rush down to Hastings to fight William. Take more time, get some rest in and allow more men to rally to your army, pick a spot nearer London, let William get weaker coming to you and…………”.
9:44 am
August 3, 2010
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Oh, good one, DuchessofBrittany, let me add Ancient Egypt as well as medieval Europe (but only for so long!).
"Grumble all you like, this is how it's going to be"
5:41 am
November 18, 2010
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I’m begining to think I’d have liked to travel First Class on the Titanic and got off safely….
It's always bunnies.
10:25 am
May 16, 2011
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Man, well other than Tudor times i’d like to see Achilles, Alexander the great, Helen of Troy, all those type of people but more modern day i’d wanna meet Marilyn Monroe, I have a fascination with her like I do with Anne. And i’d want to go back and meet The Hatfields because through my father i’m related. And I’d wanna meet my father’s parents…
Time traveling is something that should definately be invented.
• Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.
12:39 pm
May 7, 2010
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I agree with all those who say Rome at its peak I would really enjoy that though probably I’d like to see Augustus with Livia in action rather than Julius.
Boudica oh how I would love to have been right there with her
Largs in Ayrshire to see the Vikings land (whenever that was)
Then Henry and Eleanor with their troublesome sons and Beckett and all of it.
Tudors/Elizabethan obviously
Scotland with William Wallace and all that (being Scottish I have to)
Whitechapel 1888 to see what was to be seen of the famous murders
Then WWII to absorb the whole atmosphere of what is a vastly interesting time to me though tragic and cruel but most times in history have their own moments of cruelty. I would want to fly in a Spitfire and meet Barnes Wallace and Guy Gibson and all the crews on that mission
Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves - Boudica addressing the tribes Circa AD60
9:30 am
February 24, 2010
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Anyanka said
I’m begining to think I’d have liked to travel First Class on the Titanic and got off safely….
Anyanka,
Oh, you brave soul. Even as a first class traveler who survived, I couldn’t go there. I can’t imagine what it must have been like to be in a lifeboat and have to watch the Titanic go down with people still on board. That had to haunt those survivors. Talk about PTSD.
One of your posts on the Titanic page was about the dogs that were on board. I know, that’s the one story that gets to me? Yep, I’m a big baby when it comes to dog stories.
One of the stories was about a woman who was in a lifeboat and asked for her Great Dane. They said he would take up too much room. She got out of the lifeboat and stayed with her dog. They found her and the dog in the water deceased. The dog was in her arms. I am such a sucker when it comes to dogs and I have a special fondness for Great Danes. I probably would have done the same thing that lady did. I read that a while ago and I can’t get the vision of it out of my head. So you are a lot braver than I am.
9:43 am
April 11, 2011
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Sharon, you are not alone in your thoughts. Many of the survivors had such a hard time afterwards with nightmares, guilt, etc. Ten of these poor people even took their own lives. As to the dogs, I’m afraid I’m as bad as you when it comes to getting emotional regarding such stories, and in any case I’ve found the company of dogs to have been preferable to many humans that I’ve come across in life.
1:38 pm
February 24, 2010
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Thanks Neil. Yes, I agree, dogs are sometimes preferrable company when compared with some people. It’s easy to love our dogs. They are ever loyal and loving. And the don’t ask questions!
3:29 pm
May 16, 2011
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Wow, I never heard those stories about the dogs, that’s so sad. I,too, prefer animal company to most humans.
I always get choked up thinking about the small children that died…they didn’t even have much of a chance. And I said this in the other Titanic post – the scene in the Titanic movie where the older couple are laying in bed holding hands and crying knowing they only have a few minutes left together and the scene when the movie in 3rd class is putting her 2 small children to bed <– Those scenes literally kill me.
• Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.
10:13 am
April 11, 2011
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Mya, it wasn’t just dogs, of which there were 12 on board, but also 4 hens, 4 roosters, 30 cockerels, 1 yellow canary and the ship’s rat-catcher cat, Jenny. The dogs were pets and the hens, roosters and cockerels were brought onboard by immigrant passengers in Steerage, for whom these birds would be the only luxury they could take to the New World.
Sadly, most perished with the ship, only 3 of the dogs and the canary are known to have survived. James Cameron’s 1997 film cut out the only sequence featuring the ill-fated creatures prior to the film’s release as he thought it would upset too many people (he obviously thought that showing numerous human deaths in this tragedy wouldn’t upset anyone!). One poignant fact in this is that the animal’s (many of whom were still locked in their cages) fate mirrors the fate of many of the third-class passengers who went to their deaths still locked behind gates, as the lifeboats filled with first and second class passengers. Humans treated like (worse than?) animals, let us hope we never see the like of it ever again.
12:25 pm
May 16, 2011
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Yeah, it’s horrible. Everyone should of at least had a chance to get to a boat as quickly as possible and not be judged according to class. It’s like saying people with money are more worth it and are better. It’s completely insane. And the animals too should of be considered.
• Grumble all you like, this is how it’s going to be.
4:41 pm
February 24, 2012
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I have 2 Great Danes and I can’t imagine the anguish that poor woman felt when they said her dog couldn’t be in the life boat. 
5:12 pm
April 9, 2011
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While I’d love to time travel I’m not sure I could just be an ‘innocent’ bystander to the events I would like to visit. Knowing what happened would make me want to help the people avoid their fate eg Anne B, Katherine H, Jane Grey, Louis XVI & Marie, Nicholas II, Titanic. So I’ll say that I would travel back in time to the age of the dinosaurs just to marvel at the creatures.
