Europe
Owning a Piece of My Nightmare (Budapest, Hungary)
If you can think of a better day than this to haggle over the purchase of a 60s era aluminum bust of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, the father of this nightmare, I’d like to see it. Continue reading
A Thanksgiving for Proper Perspective (St Yrieix sous Aixe, France)
What I am thankful for today is the gift of proper perspective which applies to my life from this point forward which is all anyone’s life happens to be: this point forward. Continue reading
Porto Perspectives (Porto, Portugal)
Now more than ever I just need something that promises nothing…..and delivers. Continue reading
What If He Just Got Tired and Quit? (Vatican City, The Vatican)
And the Master said unto the silence, “In the path of our happiness shall we find the learning for which we have chosen this lifetime. So it is that I have learned this day, and choose to leave you now to walk your own path, as you please.” Continue reading
Riomaggiore, a Vacation of Sorts (Riomaggiore, Italy)
This is yet another job: keeping proper perspective when you really just want to dislike everything and everybody. It’s easier to dismiss an entire country, its people and thousands of years of rich heritage instead of taking responsibility for your own happiness. Continue reading
Categories: Europe, Italy
Tags: Cinque Terre, Italian scams, Ligurian Sea, Riomaggiore, traveling
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First Order of Business (Paris, France)
It’s true that the first order of business in Paris is to eat. The second order is to simply be amazed. Continue reading
Galway, Kentucky (Galway, Ireland)
If you were abducted from your old Kentucky home by aliens and due to an in-spaceship clerical error were redeposited in Ireland you could be forgiven for thinking you were back in the bluegrass. Continue reading
Unstoppable Redemption (Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom)
Armored police carriers were blocking all the roads into Shaftsbury and the troops were ready to rumble, they were not amateurs. Overhead a police helicopter hovered taking in a God’s eye view of the city because there was violence in many more places in the city. Violence much worse than this. I had seen enough. Continue reading
Categories: Europe, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Tags: Belfast, caring, Northern Ireland, riots, Titanic
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I Have My Memories to Keep Me Warm (Snowdon, Wales, United Kingdom)
Five minutes after bagging England and Wales highest peak, Snowdon, I realized why Yr Wyddfa translates to “The tomb”. Continue reading
Categories: United Kingdom, Wales
Tags: escargot, France, love, Mount Snowdon, United Kingdom, Wales
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Meeting Royalty (Bath, England, United Kingdom)
This is a family web site so I’ll just say that the joke involved prostitution and penguins with the added bonus of Diana acting it out. I laughed to the point of nearly unleashing a urinary tsunami. Continue reading