On this day the Englishman Graham Fagg and the Frenchman Phillippe Cozette met in the middle of the Channel Tunnel under the English Channel. Work on the tunnel had begun in 1988 but it did not become operative until 1994. At the peak of construction 15,000 people were employed with a daily expenditure of over £3 million. Ten workers, eight of them British, were killed during the construction. Plans to build a cross-Channel tunnel had been proposed as early as 1802, but fears of compromising national security had disrupted attempts to build one. Many people felt that the sea had protected for centuries what Shakespeare described as “this precious stone set in the silver sea.”
So, thanks to the Tunnel, the European Continent no longer can be isolated when The Channel is furious!
In fact! Now all we are waiting for is the bridge from Italy to Sicily! 😉
N.B. …can no longer be…
As a native Sicilian living abroad (Emilia!!), I ask for living enough to cross the bridge by car. If it lasts decades, it is not my responsibility.
It’s a major debating point down here, I can tell you! Time will tell!
N.B. …I ask to live long enough…
Is this a new feature in Ingliando website?
Looks really interesting!
I hope so, Paolo! Let’s see how it goes!
Thanks for the feedback 🙂