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Ever fantasize about eating at a restaurant DOWN UNDER? Well a restaurant named UNDER exists under the ocean. Where?
In Lindesnes Norway. That's where. The only under-ocean restaurant in Europe. Is there another one anywhere else? I'd get claustrophobic so I don't care how great the food or view not my cuppa tea. Yours?
Me too Shuhak. I have a fear of heights and I guess I also have a fear of depths. Many decades ago when we visited relatives in Detroit, Michigan we went to a restaurant for dinner one evening in Windsor, Canada requiring us to drive through a tunnel UNDER THE DETROIT RIVER as I recall. We saw inspectors walking up and down on the sides checking for leaks or something overhead and on the walls. I was terrified imagining in my mind's eye the entire river crashing through and drowning all of us. So eating in a restaurant under the ocean would not appeal to me. It's a schtick and I wonder if it will catch on? Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday! :)
Back in the mid-70's, my grandpa decided to take everyone on the new subway system BART. He arranged it so we could ride it everywhere it went without having to spend too much time in any one terminal. As we got onto the San Francisco line, he told everyone we df be going under the bay but that we'd never know it. However, just before it was about to go under the bay, the train stopped. We sat there a few hundred feet from the tunnel entrance for over an hour with no one knowing why. Finally the train moved. When it came out on the San Francisco side, there were fresh mud blotches on the windows. We came to find out that there had been a "minor" earthquake and that the train was held up so the tunnels under the bay could be inspected. No one explained where the fresh mud on the train came from.
My mom told us of a tunnel called the Alameda Tube. She said going through it was like being flushed down a toilet (so naturally we never got to go through it). When my sister lived by the naval station in Alameda (90's), it was much closer to go through the Tube to visit her than to go all the way around through San Leandro. Although the tube was tile-lined like a public bathroom, I didn't find it scary like my mom had told us all those years ago (as long as traffic flowed normally). However, I quickly learned not to use it when the base got out as you could be stuck in the tube for lengthy periods of time - really claustrophobic! (I was there in the summer so it was hot inside the tube but you couldn't roll down the windows due to all the car exhaust.)
So you KNOW FIRST-HAND about what of I speak! Ghastly! Thank you for your thoughtful and very informative sharing of your own personal experience Shuhak. I like those replies best of all because it takes opinion and fleshes it out to 3-dimensional reality. I wonder how many others have experienced what we did and how it affected THEM? :)
This post was edited by RosieG at June 3, 2019 10:42 PM MDT
Shuhak 