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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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Continue reading →: And So It Begins…When I think back a few years, pre COVID and during our full-time-work lives, many winter Sundays were spent thinking about what we do now. When we aren’t working a project, we live overseas, we study foreign languages and we research, prep and prepare to travel. Those many Sundays, which…
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Continue reading →: COVID LandsI guess COVID will find us all, eventually. We’ve been two of the most careful people you could be: truly hunkered and isolated (we could work remotely and really limit outside interactions during the first year of COVID), triple vaxxed, always masked when indoors, eating at home or outside when…
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Continue reading →: International Travel in COVID TimesInternational travel can be stressful in the best of times, even before COVID was a daily household word. For those who have yet to travel internationally since the pandemic started (we’ve just completed our third transatlantic journey) it can be confusing, frustrating and nerve wracking. What paperwork is necessary? Will…
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