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Entry: A tour through the salt mine in Hallstatt - A51967902
Author: czernyst - U13983079

Experience a tour through the salt mine in Hallstatt/Austria!

Hallo czernyst,

Nice to see someone new in PR

This is a really interestoing Entry, which will look great in the EG once it's formatted into GuideML (Headers, Sub Headers, paragraphing etc .... but you needn't worry about that just yet.

It could also do with some links. Two that spring to mind are:

A9292724 (Common Salt-Sosium chloride) and A385689 (History of Numbers). A sub-editor will do this for you if you haven't discovered how to do it before this is picked

Ref: Under 'History'



The story of how salt was found involves a hunter of the Stone Age who one day climbed up the mountain to search for deer. When he arrived at the top following animal prints he was surprised to find a spring sputtering out of the earth. Before he bent down to thirstily drink the water, he counted the prints. He took all the fingers of his hands to count, but the number of his fingers wasn’t enough. The hunter was surprised at so many animals climbing up this mountain, because there were also springs down in the valley. He tasted the water, but spit it out immediately afterwards, because the water’s taste was bitter. Then he also saw that the plants next to the spring were covered with a white crust and realized that he had found salt.

i.e.'...realised he had found salt'

This bit jars with me because,presumably, at this stage he didn't know what salt is/was . i.e. Having discovered animals consuming this strange white stuff, he probably experimented and found that it improved the flavour of food. At a later stage - probably - he discovered that it was an effective food preservative.

I wonder if you could consider re-writing that bit to reflect this

By the way, I've included the Header codes .... and paragraph .... codes to show you how they work. Ifyou just copy and paste the section I've given you above, they will give youy the formatting once you're in GuideML.

You get into GML by going to the bottom of your Editing page and clicking the button that says 'Change to GuideML.

with this,

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Oops. The Common Salt link is A49292724

Hi,

thanks a lot for your comments, they are really helpful!
I guess I haven´t made my point when writing about how salt was found, so you´re really right in saying it doesn´t make sense the way I put it.

They have known salt already, it was one of the most precious goods for the hunters in the Stone Age, but they have never found salt in this particular spot in the mountains before. They had to buy it from salt traders in exchange for deer and furs, so the hunter was really happy about finding "his own" salt. That´s how the story goes...

Well, thanks again for your help, I´ll try my best with the formatting!

czernyst

a fine piece of text!

Was in a Salt Mine once and now I'd like to visit one again!


regards
Alex

forgot:

Your text is well structured, you use headings at different levels.
Especially your "Reasons why to come"-paragraph sums up the most important points: very convincing.

bye

Hello modemraider - yet another newcomer!!

I am only going to comment on your English in the last paragraph, although the whole article needs a lot of correction

>>Reasons why to come

Why You Should Visit the Salt Mine
(** you could try to learn GuideML, but if you don't know anything about this, you should at least try and lay your paragraphs out a bit more clearly.



>>>Visiting the salt mine is a unique experience for adults and children alike. It offers the visitors an insight into the history of the “Salzkammergut” and the importance salt had and still has for the region and its inhabitants. Once reached the salt mountain there is a great view waiting: the village of Hallstatt, the lake and the surrounding mountains. The guided tour through the salt mine is an adventure which won’t be forgotten that easily! <<<



A visit to the Salt Mine will be a unique experience for adults and children alike. The Salt Mine offers visitors an insight into the history of the "Salzkammergut"; salt was and still is very important for the region and its inhabitants.
There is a wonderful view from the salt mountain of the village of Hallstatt, the lake and the surrounding mountains and the guided tour through the mine itself will be a memorable adventure.

Hi and welcome to Peer Review. I have enjoyed reading your fine entry

Now then, this is PR after all and so would you mind terribly if I suggested some minor changes to the first paragraph that would punch it up some?

Here is how I'd suggest rearranging your text - change this:
>>The world’s oldest salt mine is to be found in the village of Hallstatt, in the very south of Upper Austria in a region which is called Salzkammergut. For more than 7,000 years mining has taken place in Hallstatt and the mine is still in use today.
For more than 7,000 years, people have been gaining salt from the mine in Hallstatt which lies on the salt mountain a few hundred meters above today’s village accessible by cable car or by walking. The first traces, however, only date back to 5,000 B.C. with no finds older than this date.<<

To this:

->The world’s oldest salt mine is found in the village of Hallstatt which is in the very south of Upper Austria in a region called Salzkammergut. The entrance to the mine lies on the salt mountain a few hundred meters above today’s village and is accessible by cable car or by walking. The first traces of human activity date back to 5,000 BC and the mine has been in continuous use since.<-

Now then, keep in mind that all suggestions are optional. They are intended to help improve the entry - but you are the final judge as to whether any given suggestion really is an improvement.


Here are a couple of questions that the entry raised in my mind:

>>A second slide follows which is Europe’s longest wooden slide where the top speed is measured. <<

My first question is, what typical top speeds are achieved?

My second question is, wooden slide? how does one avoid splinters?


Well done

I had hopes for this, but it appears to be another .

I'll put it on the list. Maybe someone can pick it up from FM.

I agree - definitely could have been good. I have a sister who has an apartment in Hallstatt, I'm sure she will know something about it. Flea market for now though.

Thanks. It's on my list.

I visited that very salt mine on a school trip 40 years ago!