Checking in for my flights to Bangkok today, the agent asked if I have a return ticket… Uh no… I have a ticket to San Francsico though! This will be my first trip literally around the world. EBL-DXB-BKK-USM-BKK-ICN-SFO-DTW-BOS and then JFK-MXP, Last leg will probably be BLQ-IST-EBL or MXP-BEY-EBL. That’s still undecided, and it may […]
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Posted 14 June 2018
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We finally made it to one of the Lucca Summer Festival shows!
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Posted 28 July 2015
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A place I’ve been wanting to go since… forever, basically. Almost made it when I was living in Berlin, except that my passport was being held by the Russians for a new visa, and this I only remembered the morning my friend was picking me up to drive over. It was well worth the wait.
The next day we met up with the cousins in this super cute town that’s going to be a Euro Cultural Capital next year. Wroclaw is known for its gnomes, apparently. Another great thing about Eastern Europe is its shared love of Georgian food. And, of course, ICE CREAM, international food of happiness.
I’ve transited through Poland many times in the 90s – in fact my passport at that time had more Polish stamps in it than any other country. But I’d never stopped long enough to see anything other than the Warsaw train station. So, when my cousin Anneli (check out her very clever travel blog!) mentioned she […]
Managed to fit in a couple days in May to visit my home… Figured I could use miles for this one, so flew Upper Class Virgin Atlantic to London, and then Alitalia to Rome and Pisa. Arrived to find everything in order, a pleasant surprise for once after being gone for 7 months. Took […]
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Posted 28 May 2015
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An unplanned delay gave me an extra couple days in Rome and finally got to see this:
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Posted 03 November 2014
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The Saturday visit did not disappoint! Zombies were very popular, including themselves in a showdown between stormtroopers and the UBCS.
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Posted 01 November 2014
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Finally made it back for Halloween after missing the last two years, and the weather was perfect for this fabulous Friday night. And our friend Mietta who runs the local hardware store is still going strong!
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Posted 31 October 2014
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The last three years only allowed for short little visits. Infrequent visits mean bills get missed (and the heater got left on after the xmas visit), and as a result the power was shut off in July 2013 (but reactivated, thankfully), and the phone/DSL was shut off around March 2014 (and Telecom Italia won’t reactivate […]
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Posted 13 August 2014
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