“The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” G.K. Chesterton Just a couple of months ago, in September, hubby and I enjoyed an amazing trip with Odysseys Unlimited to Eastern Europe. I had wanted to post each day while on our trip, but evening tiredness, and really […]
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Be a traveler, not a tourist.
December 7th, 2015 · No Comments · Art, Education, Museums, Musings, Teaching & Learning, travel
Tags: Cold winter evenings·Freud·Kafka·quote·sculpture·think·travel
River Cruising in France
March 12th, 2015 · No Comments · photo of the week, travel, Website of the Week
I noticed a new posting by a great travel site, Gonomad, on river cruising in 2015. In 2008, hubby and I took a river cruise in France with the Avalon company. It was our first river cruise, and part of our four month sabbatical. And the most expensive part of our sabbatical, and a bit […]
Tags: Avalon·cruise·excursions·France·Gonomad·research·river·time·travel
March 2nd, 2015 · No Comments · Lesson Learned, travel
In 2008, part of our sabbatical trip was a several day visit to Morocco, visiting a few cities, villages and an overnight ride into the dessert. Lesson learned: people are people wherever they live, needing shelter and food and love; heights are only as scarey as you let them be; travel opens the mind, the […]
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A Medieval Castle in Pastels
February 16th, 2015 · No Comments · Art, Education, Lesson Learned, Musings, photo of the week, retirement, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel
Lesson learned: Put something on your bucket list that you never would have thought of! In October 2014 (see my previous posts about this trip), hubby and I went with Odysseys Unlimited to tour parts of Portugal and northern Spain. One of my favorite spots, early in the trip, was the town of Obidosh. A […]
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Portugal & Northern Spain trip – #12
January 13th, 2015 · No Comments · Musings, photo of the week, Spain & Portugal 2014, travel, Walking
So, where were we? Well, it certainly has been too long since I continued telling you about our amazing trip, isn’t it? Now, what got in the way? The holidays, renovating two bathrooms (down to the studs and structural issues – that’s a multi-entry story in and of itself!), and an unplanned surgery! I began […]
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