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Continue reading →: Off with the Masks, KindaWe are nearing the two month mark for our travels in Italy. At the outset, green pass (the online EU COVID19 vaccine passport) was required to go to museums, churches, restaurants, etc and was more often than not checked. Masks were required indoors. While I’m skeptical of their effectiveness in…
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Continue reading →: Our Trip to SienaIf I had a category for overshares, this post would probably go in it…. But here goes. Our trip to Siena last time, ten years ago, was an overnight and for some reason, this time, we booked it as an overnight again. We were having some regrets about that but…
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Continue reading →: Homesick?We’ve been on the road now for close to two months. Last fall, after one month of constant travel in central and northern Portugal we wondered, will more than a month feel too long? Will we get tired of it and just want some familiarity and some time at home?…
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Continue reading →: Naples – It’s A LotBy Melissa Yesterday was my dad’s birthday. We spent it in Naples. He lived here for several years back in the 1960s when he was a young officer in the Navy. He and my mom met here and always looked back on their time here fondly. Very fondly. They loved…
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Continue reading →: I am not UkrainianBy Melissa I am not Ukrainian. My mother was 100% Norwegian and my father, we don’t really know, but the name Greer and everything he knew about his family background, suggest a lot of English and Irish and not much else. David and I have been back in Europe since…
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Continue reading →: Life is Too ShortI read this (below) in the New York Times daily (now three times weekly) COVID newsletter. It seemed a fitting way to “celebrate” the two year anniversary on March 11 for when The WHO proclaimed COVID a global pandemic. I don’t know Cree, but I hope she would be ok…
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Continue reading →: Endemic Travel in FranceI’ve been asked a few times since we’ve hit the road two weeks ago: “what’s it like to be traveling again” or “how are things in France?” So, I thought I’d take a post to write about our experiences over the past two weeks on the state of travel here…
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Continue reading →: The Murals of LyonLyon France has the second most murals of any European city only to Berlin. They pop up out of seemingly nowhere as you turn a corner or wander into a square. “Wow, look at that one.” They depict common scenes or historical figures important to the city and they are…
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Continue reading →: Travel Blogging During WartimeAs we pack and prep to leave for an extended trip, we do so with mixed emotions. Two weeks ago, I wrote about some of them, but they were solely inwardly focused. This weekend, they are more outwardly so. With the flames of war sparked by an invasion on the…
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Continue reading →: Super Bowl MondayLiving 5 hours ahead of the east coast of the US, 7 hours from our other home and 8 hours from our westernmost family can make it tricky to navigate keeping in touch. It definitely involves some planning and results in some inbound middle of the night texts which we…
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