Our Welsh Learning Curve
Now, before you get all excited and think: “Wow! RoseMary is learning to speak Welsh!” Let me stop...
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Tag: Europe
Alex Kershaw’s, The First Wave, The D-Day Warriors and remembrance events on June 5-6, 2019
Commemorating our D-Day heroes June 5 We started our Washington, D.C. World War II D-Day...
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The Jackie & Rosemary Italian Road Show
Logically, my older sister Jackie asked, “Now what?” when we emerged from Malpensa Airport. Not...
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Hiking the Pembrokeshire Coast Path in South Wales
The Pembrokeshire Coast Path in South Wales is one of the most ruggedly beautiful stretches of oceanside walking that you’ll find anywhere in the world. Hiking here you not only see incredible sights, but you meet captivating people—a combination sure to draw you back time and again.
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Some Places are balm for your soul
Places evoke emotions in us human beings. A small village in Italy—Manarola in the Cinque Terre—that has a profound effect on me. Manarola wraps itself around a visitor with colorful buildings, lyrical language, and food and wine to delight every palate. Each contribution it makes to the beauty of a day soothes your heart.
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Ah, Nespresso…helping with our love of coffee
We love coffee–the taste, the smell, the ritual and companionship of a shared cup. My...
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Are life’s surprising pleasures really chance encounters?
The setting: Cinque Terre Park, Italy. The setting: Cinque Terre National Park on the Italian...
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7 Ways to be Okay Acting Like a Tourist
In the former home-of-my-heart, Red Lodge, Montana, we used to have a word for the flocks of...
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Do you see the unseen people?
Over the next week, when you interact with people outside of your normal realm, practice really...
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Finding Pleasure in Travel Gone Awry
Our most recent travel snafu was on a flight back to Pittsburgh from Zurich, Switzerland. Why we...
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No Place Is Too Far Away
Do you sometimes need to run away from home? Does the overwhelming desperation to escape the...
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Dressing Advice for an American in Europe
The best advice for your maiden voyage—and all subsequent ones—to Europe from the USA is to travel light. Pack the week before, unpack, repack, keep going until that suitcase contains only the essentials. If you’ve really missed something? That means you get to buy something new!
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