[LMB] a question about distances on Barrayar

[Michael R N Dolbear]

> From: Elizabeth Holden <azurite at rogers.com>
> Date: 17 February 2008 19:00 GMT
  
> > On 2/17/08, anmar mirza <anmar.mirza at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > but based on Mountains of Mourning, and other bits and pieces,
> > > I'd say that Vorbarr Sultana to Vorkosign Surleau being two days by
> > > horseback or an hour by lightflyer, probably in the area of 60-100
miles (100-160km).
> 
> Not very much. I was hoping for a more substantial distance.

OK how about this

(Winterfair Gifts, in Vorbarr Sultana)

"I didn't grow up with this." Roic waved a hand toward the imposing stone
pile of Vorkosigan House rising above the high, bare trees on its grounds.
"My father is just a construction hand in Hassadar—that's the Vorkosigan's
District capital city, just this side of the Dendarii Mountains, a few
hundred kilometers south of here.
==

More textev [Memory, ch 10 ]

Not that the Vorkosigan's District was a square, exactly, more of a
squashed, irregular parallelogram, some 350 kilometers from the northern
strip of lowlands to the southern mountain passes, and about 500 kilometers
east-to-west, skirting the mountain chain along its highest ranges. Only
about the northern fifth was flat fertile plains, and of that, of course,
only half was usable. ==


Little Egret