Readers response: What’s a travel memory that’s made you feel connected to past generations or history?
We asked our readers to share their favourite travel stories that made them reflect on travellers that came before them, and if they have ever felt connected to past generations or history in certain locations. Here's what they said.
Yve T Plus Kaiser Kody - Egypt! Walking in the footsteps of the ancients, amazing aura. Such a wonderful history and the architecture was mind-blowing.
Gail Ladds - Visiting Gallipoli last year. My Grandfather was in one of the landings and fought there. Putting my feet in the water had me crying and thinking how horrific it must have been for all of them.
Anna-Therese Eastment - Quietly touching the walls of the Coliseum, and waiting to hear their whispers of history. Not the salacious ones - but the hopes and dreams of the wall builders themselves. The reply I heard was that those were fundamentally along the lines of the hopes and dreams we hold today. Sorry for the long splurge, but in the midst of all that busyness I truely felt the threads that linked us across the eons. Awesome.
Denise Ryan - Skibbereen in West Cork, Ireland where my father’s family came from many generations ago.
Lorraine Hodder - England. Both my paternal and maternal families originated there. I felt a real affinity with it.
Jim Janush - Having a photo myself taken in 1993 on a seat in Kaunas, Lithuania, at the same place where my father had his photo taken in 1943.
Ralph G Smith - Visiting the beaches of Normandy and the World War One battlefields in France!
Marilyn Thomson - Walking in Tipperary, knowing my ancestors walked the same tracks and fields before coming to Australia.
Bob Brownley - Standing at the empty site in Govan, Glasgow on which the house stood in which my mother was born in 1902.
Steven Schulze - Cebu, Philippines at the statue of Magellan, then China, entombed warriors, Forbidden City and Great Wall.
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