Historical Record

Recently, due to the corona virus , we had more time staying home to see the movies and play the video game instead of traveling outside. Although, the content and view capture in the movie still expand our vision and idea. Furthermore, the football game which is able to show the diversified cultures also inspire me to understand the widen world deeply. The first thing I had acquired was studying the history and traveling to the particular area. Thus, after finishing the detective fiction project I had executed last months, I had enlisted the new historic books which focus on the European history in last ten years. Although, I had read all of them ten years ago, that time I was merely familiar with the topic related to the Second World War and cold war. In the above content, only the Germany, French, UK and Soviet Union played the key role, and development of the other countries commonly surrounded. This time, I won’t only focus on the above counties, but also the Low Countries, Eastern Europe and Balkans.

On the other hand, the trip in the Balkans provided the tremendous resource and experience to understand the cultural issue. Balkans is located between Western and Eastern Europe, which doesn’t only represent the two major powers in the Europe, but also the two utterly religious systems also. In our trip, we had visited the mountains belong to the Alps first, then the area and island along the sea coastline, finally the several significant historical cities in the world. In the last two years, I only travelled the Asian countries both for the sightseeing and business trip. The European and American long journey made us exhausted, but it exactly worth it. In the current situation, all the non-essential travel abroad isn’t allowed. However, it is still a good chance for us to recall and make arrangement for the further developmental planning.

The next year, due to the gap of job transition, I had planned another trip to the Turkey, which represents the Islamic culture. In the last Eastern Europe trip, we had visited Bosnia and Herzegovina which combines both Christian and Islamic culture. That was the first time we had met the Islamic culture, including the religious ceremony and architectural style. In the Turkey, we can involve the completely Islamic culture along the whole life. However, in the beginning, our airplane arrived in the Istanbul. We only stayed for one night and departure for the other sightseeing towns in the different location in Turkey. Some areas showed the historical building from the Ottoman Empire or the ancient empire, some showed the special terrain or natural view which hardly exists in the world.

After finished the half circle of the Turkey, we finally went back to the Istanbul where we departure. Though, Istanbul is not the capital city anymore, we still could feel the busy and heavily traffic jam in the downtown. In the entire European history, Istanbul had acted as the most important city in the world several times. It had become the capital city including Byzantine Empire and Ottoman Empire because located in the intersection between Europe and Asian. Interestingly, the before and after empires occupied Istanbul belonged to the distinct religious system: Christian and Islamic culture. Consequently, both building styles placed in the city without any confliction. Istanbul is no doubt the historical city, so our trip also focused on those famous church and castle. Totally speaking, above two long journeys in the Europe and far Asian had offered the completely different experience for us.