My solo journey of the heart and World
The next day my flight home wasn’t until the afternoon, so I planned on sleeping in. By 11 a.m. I was ready to go anyway and decided to head to the airport early. The night before I had made a dangerous financial decision. About fourteen hours before departure, I upgraded to business class. After experiencing …
The walk itself was pleasant enough, and by the time I arrived I mostly just needed a shower and some quiet time to feel like myself again. The apartment turned out to be one of my favorite places I stayed throughout my travels. The balcony overlooked a park, which meant there wasn’t another building directly …
My flight to Thessaloniki left mid-morning, so I had time to sleep in a little, enjoy breakfast at the hostel, and make my way back to the airport. I ended up taking an expensive Bolt rather than risk the local bus system. There was an Airport Direct bus available, but after my previous experiences with …
I took the 2 ½ hour bus trip to Plovdiv and then tried to figure out what bus to take that would get me closest to my apartment. I waited awhile and then after no bus came with the route I was looking for, I asked a taxi driver how much it would cost. They quoted me …
At breakfast the next morning, which was fabulous and huge with black pudding, haggis, fried egg, sausage, potatoes and toast, the host, Leslie, let me know that the library was just across from the pub I was at the night before and was called Lindsay Institute. I recalled walking by it and seeing books in the …
The area in Manchester where my hostel was located is called Northern Quarter. Apparently, no one in the Northern Quarter had dirty clothes because the closest laundromat was a total of 20 minutes on a bus and 20 minutes walking. But as I mentioned in a previous post, I had no clean underwear and I I had …
I left Liverpool on Sunday and had a short train ride to Manchester. I had booked a hostel for 4 nights. The first two nights were in a bunk bed in a female dorm room and the last two nights, I reserved a private room. This was my first time staying at this brand of hostel called Selina. I …
On Saturday, I decided to do the recommended walk down along the Brayford river to a riverside inn called The Pyewipe Inn. It was recommended both for the walk and the pub. It was raining but not pouring and I decided to do the walk anyway. I donned my waterproof sneakers and raincoat, grabbed my umbrella and walked …
I had the opportunity to again travel with my aunt for the world championship for dog agility, this time to England. Her dog Maverick qualified and would be running again for team USA. And again, my aunt offered me my ticket overseas if I helped arrange the travel and help her navigate the different locations for accommodations …
We had another day of clouds and rain so we took it easy and counted on the weather forecast predicting that the following day, our last day, would give way to better weather. In the meantime, I started getting a pretty intense toothache in my far left back bottom molar to the point where I couldn’t …