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If you want the terrorists to win, refuse travelling. But there is only one response to the Barcelona attack, keep on travelling. Yesterday a concert of Allah-Las in Rotterdam was cancelled because of a terror warning. The lorry with gas cylinders was stopped and the driver arrested and interrogated. The warning came from Spain. by Earl of Cruise Las Ramblas, Barcelona - Photo by peresanz, courtsey Getty Images It is not possible to know what counts as being “too soon” when it comes to the idea of life returning to normal in the aftermath of any tragedy. Especially after a terror attack. In a troubled era when the “Breaking News” ticker begins flashing on your TV, phone or computer screen at any moment, and the information it brings may well be another shard of despair, it is difficult to say what constitutes day-to-day existence, or whether we can slip back into it when it has been ruptured by a bomb blast, a knife rampage, or a delivery va...

During time of BELLE ÉPOQUE [ bɛleˈpɔk ] Austria-Hungary´s LLOYD AUSTRIACO had a Traumschiff on its own. While HAPAG had its PRINZESSIN VICTORIA LUISE. The first purpose built cruise ship ever. The term "cruise" was not in use in those days, the "cruises" had been called Pleasure Voyages, Gesellschaftsreisen or Vergnügungsreisen. LLOYD AUSTRIACO wishing to participate in this lucrative and new maritime business, they choose as many others, the way of reconstructing older liner tonnage into an Austrian BELLE ÉPOQUE pleasure travel boat. And some still send out their liners to pleasure voyages. by Earl of Cruise THALIA in a Norwegian Fjord, by H. Heusser - Source: Wikipedia After the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 and proclamation of the German Empire in 1871, the 1866 constituated "lesser Germany" (Kleindeutsche Lösung) had been cemented. This consolidation made Austro-Hungary finaly a south-east European power, dominating the Balkan. And after th...