Fluge Global Adventures

Contest Suggestion #17

Climb the Rock of the Acropolis in Athens to the Parthenon to find true inspiration and global understanding.

To truly benefit and become enlightened about the world of today we must immerse ourselves in and understand all aspects of history and culture.

Ancient Greece is a period in Greek history that lasted for around three thousand years. It is generally considered to be the seminal culture which provided the foundation of Western Civilization. Greek culture had a powerful influence on the Roman Empire, which carried a version of it to many parts of Europe.

The civilization of the ancient Greeks has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems, philosophy, science, and arts, giving rise to the Renaissance in Western Europe and again resurgent during various neo-Classical revivals in 18th and 19th century Europe and the Americas.

For Fluge the adventure is never limited to just the physical journey and arrival at the destination, there is also an intellectual path. The Parthenon serves up inspiration in buckets, and as Fluge climbs to the top in the footsteps of Ancient Greek Rulers and Kings he might ponder his own next moves or his quest for Global Adventures…

The wealth of Athens attracted talented people from all over Greece, and also created a wealthy leisure class who became patrons of the arts. The Athenian state also sponsored learning and the arts, particularly architecture. Athens became the centre of Greek literature, philosophy and the arts.

Some of the greatest figures of Western cultural and intellectual history lived in Athens during this period: the dramatists Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, and Sophocles, the philosophers Aristotle, Plato, and Socrates, the historians Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon, the poet Simonides and the sculptor Pheidias.

Fluge would have been right at home in a toga discussing politics and philosophy with these guys.

Contest Suggestion #16

Travel to Bunol, Spain for the La Tomatina festival. Over 30,000 tourists travel each year to Bunol to participate in the World’s largest Tomato food fight. One hundred metric tons of over-ripe tomatoes are thrown in the streets!

The festivities can only begin when someone is able to climp to the top of the cockaigne pole (a large, greased pole) and retrieve the ham that is placed on top. The signal for the beginning of the fight is firing of water cannons, and the chaos begins and then it is every man and woman for themselves!

The festival attire is simple: COME DRESSED TO WEAR TOMATOES!! Grab those red ripe tomatoes and throw them at anyone that runs, moves, stands stills, bends down, or turns around, laughs, or gives you a questionable look. This fight only has a few rules: You may ONLY use tomatoes, and you are to squish them before throwing them. Bottles, water bombs and the like are forbidden as it is to rip other’s clothes. No worries though, the crowd tends to ignore this last rule and men and women are left running topless throught the streets.