Oh the Wonderful Places we go!

A Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of the most famous books, ever! I read it once when I was little, and now I read it again for school, and just let me say, I’m glad I read it again! If you haven’t read it already, then you’ll read it someday either by will, or by force (cough cough school cough). A Journey to the Center of the Earth was written by Jules Gabriel Verne. Jules Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 in Nantes, France. In his early years, he studied at many schools and moved frequently. When he grew up, he became one of the founders of the genera, science fiction. Some of his most notable works are: Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Around the World in 80 Days, The Mysterious Island, Five Weeks in a Balloon, Master of the World, and Off on a Comet. But as you can probably tell, I’m going to be talking about A Journey to the Center of the Earth.

A Journey to the Center of the Earth doesn’t have a lot of characters, so I’ll just talk about the two most important ones: professor Lidenbrock (Aka the professor), and Axel. Axel is a young adult aspiring to be a geologist just like his uncle, professor Lidenbrock. Axel has worked for the professor ever sense his parents died. The professor took him in soon after. The professor is a dedicated worker. So dedicated that he will make the whole house hold go on a fast just so he could figure out a code. That’s what spawned the idea of taking a trip down to the center of the earth! Thank goodness I’m not Axel! I wouldn’t like being dragged around the world for science, I’d want to be dragged around the world for a vacation!

The professor and Axel go on this crazy adventure to go to the center of the earth. Thankfully they had a guide named Hans, because they didn’t know where they were going! They start their journey in Germany and end up in Mount Snæfell. Germany is an area of 137,847 square miles and has an average population of 80.7 million people. It also has 16 constituent states! Mount Snæfell is located on the cost of Iceland and stands 4,744 ft. tall! Mount Snæfell is 700,000 years old and has never truly erupted. In August of 2012, the summit was ice and snow free for the first time in recorded history! I will be comparing and contrasting these two places and giving my opinion on them, so let’s buckle down and get right to it!

The scenery of a location is part of what the entire location is about. Germany has a lush, green country side with forests and lakes to make it a great place to spend your summer. Mount Snæfell’s exterior is a lot like Germany’s, but the interior is a vast cavernous maze which can lead you to huge underground lakes, or 100° rooms with lava spewing on your shoelace. No one has ever ventured inside a volcano, so no one really knows what the inside of Mount Snæfell looks like, so I’m pegging this one not realistic. On the other hand, Germany is inhabited by 80.7 million people on average, and they post pictures online of the beautiful countryside so that other people can use them as their desktop backgrounds. I think I’d rather vacation in Germany. It sounds more relaxing. At Mount Snæfell there is danger everywhere, so unless I was board out of my mind, this one goes to Germany.

Mount Snæfell is not the place you’d want to live in. To live by, that’s another story. There is so many national parks there that you could go to a different one every day and learn something new each time you go there! There are a lot of things to do in Germany as well. The only difference from Mount Snæfell’s activities, is that there’s castles everywhere! Not medieval ones, but Fancy Victorian age castles. You can explore all of the arcetectual details and admire all the sparkly stuff like: copper, silver, gold, platinum, rubies, emeralds, sapphires, pearls, diamonds, and soooooo much more. The people by both places are very nice and caring (from what I gathered on the internet). So with neighbors, that’s a tie, but with the activities and the scenery as an aspect, I say it’s still Germany! Although it would be super cool to live next to a volcano.

Even though Germany has won the battle of the places, I still think it’s fair that we give Mount Snæfell one more chance! Now I’m going to talk about the climate. Germany’s has a temperate seasonal climate, which means that it’s never too hot or too cold all the time, rather the temperatures change according to the average season. Like in summer, it’s hot enough to have a fun day in the heated pool, and in winter it’s cold enough to come inside shivering and covered in snow. Mount Snæfell on the other hand (which is on the cost of Iceland) has a sub polar oceanic climate, which basically means, it is cold all the time! The only time Mount Snæfell gets kind of warm, is during the summer where the average high is 55°F (13°C) and there isn’t much downfall. So again this one goes to Germany. I love you, Mount Snæfell, but you are just not my place to vacation.

Jules Verne was born on February 8th, 1828 in Nantes, France. When he grew up, he became one of the founders of the genera, science fiction! His most notable works are: Twenty Thousand leagues under the sea, Around the World in 80 days, and A Journey to the Center of the earth. A Journey to the Center of the Earth is about how three people go on an adventure to see if they can go to the center of the earth (basically what the title implies). They travel all around the world to get there and they visit some cool places, but as you saw I covered the ones that they spent the most time in: Germany, and Mount Snæfell, and as you could tell, I’d rather vacation in Germany, so If I ever want to go there for their fall festival, I have to raise over $2,000! I better start saving!

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