Children's Tale

This is an English version of a story I wrote a few years ago.

Papa Goes Around The World

Once upon a time, in the city of Boston in the distant land of America there lived a little boy. He had a rather peculiar Papa, quite different from all the other papas of all the other little boys.

The thing is, this Papa just could not stand all the modern inventions, tools and appliances. He disdainfully called them all “gimmicky gadgets”. Even seeing an electric tool would make Papa spit. Electronic devices disturbed him so much that he started cursing with bad words, and Mama would hurriedly take the little boy to another room.

Papa commuted to work on a bike rather than by car; he wrote letters to his friends on paper with an ink pen rather than via email. So, the little boy had an unusual Papa indeed.

Papa really liked to travel, but traveling turned out to be quite hard for him. After all, he could not use either cars or trains or planes, all these gimmicky gadgets.

One day, Papa had decided to set out to travel around the world. Then he planted himself in his favorite armchair and started to think how to go about it. First he thought about going on a bike, but then decided against it: after all, a bike can’t sail across the ocean. Then he thought about going in a sailboat, but again decided against it: after all, a sailboat can’t go over land. And then he jumped out of his armchair and yelled, “Got it! I am going to fly in a hot air balloon!”

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