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Travel Quote Tuesdays
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the … Continue reading
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The Baltic Adventure: Week Four, Tallinn, Estonia
Tallinn: Estonia, to be frank, I’d never heard of this former Soviet Republic before visiting. It wasn’t until I mentioned I was there on a Facebook status that I was told, “You know Estonia, it’s where Brandon Frasier’s caveman character … Continue reading
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“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
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The Baltic Adventure: Week Three, Warnemunde, Germany
Warnemunde: Warnemunde is cute, lighthouse filled, beach-town in Northern Germany; a quaint resort town, akin to Cape Cod. It’s close to Berlin – if you consider two plus hours by train close. I do, when the port day is fourteen … Continue reading
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An Open Letter to Nestlé…
The makers of Coffee-mate; I just want to send a quick thank you note for making your delicious World Café Collection. Especially Italian Sweet Crème from your Italian Series. As the label says the “…delicious flavors transport me away with … Continue reading
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“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
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Artistic Challenges
I haven’t been artistically challenged in over two years. When rehearsals started, the shows I was learning challenged me; really challenged me. I hadn’t moved in over fifteen years; the last time I’d sung in tight harmony I was singing … Continue reading
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The Baltic Adventure: Week Two, Copenhagen
Copenhagen: With my crew identification card, I was granted use of the hop on/hop off double-decker tour buses. I used it as public transportation as I could never figure out the bus system. It took longer to get around, but … Continue reading
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Coffee
I drink coffee. I drink a lot of coffee. On my Grand Voyage, I’ve had the opportunity to drink coffee from around the world – of course, I could do the very same thing by sitting at a Starbucks, I … Continue reading
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
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The Baltic Adventure, Week One, Rotterdam, Holland
The Baltic Adventure: a twelve day tour of Northern Europe. Including stops in Holland, Denmark, Germany, Estonia, Russia, Finland and Sweden. The first visit was magical; the second, fascinating; the third, well…and by the seventh, I’d’ve paid someone to shoot … Continue reading
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