My solo journey of the heart and World
We packed up our things and headed towards the metro station to go back to the airport to catch our flight to Crete. We had noticed that the weather reports were predicting unusual rain and storms during the exact 5 days that we would be on the island. Of course. As we were about halfway between our …
I met Debbie at the same metro station on her day of arrival at about noon. The bed that was left was the sofa bed and although it was in a private room, it left a lot to be desired for comfort. Poor Debbie would not get a decent night’s sleep until we got to Crete. Jodi and …
The day Jodi was set to arrive, I took a taxi from the hotel where I had stayed for 3 nights to the Airbnb apartment we had booked in a different part of the city. Our 5th floor apartment with 2 bedrooms and a sofa bed was right on the border of the Syntagma and Plaka neighborhoods …
My flight was at 6:00am the following morning and I had worked most of the day and thought I would go to bed early in order to get up and walk to the airport (under 10 minutes) to be there at 4am. It was a small airport but I was somewhat concerned that maybe my bags …
I finally figured out some additional details that helped with the train travel and figuring what car I was supposed to be on. I had noticed before that each platform not only had the platform letter or number, it also had signs all along the tracks with additional letters. So you might be on Platform B and …
The time with Bart and Alice was relaxing and comfortable. Just what I needed. I worked a bit each day and we went for walks and had nice dinners sometimes with just Bart and Alice at the house and one night her mother cooked for all of us. Duck was the popular food and each time I …
When I met Bart and Alice in Colombia, they were traveling around South America for 6 months. They lived in Brussels but were so excited that they just bought an old home in a small village where Alice spent her childhood summers and where her mother now lived. Pradelles Carbardes had between 80-100 inhabitants but the population …
I ended up staying an extra night in Carcassonne before heading to the French countryside to visit my friends Alice and Bart, the couple I had met when they were traveling in Colombia. I felt I needed to extend the stay by a day because due to some unforeseen circumstances, I had to conduct a work …
I had made a reservation earlier in the week to visit the Salvador Dali house museum and was scheduled to go today at 3:00pm. They take tours of about 10 people every 15 minutes or so. I worked that morning and then walked back to the port town where we tried to kayak several days before as …
I woke up and had a coffee and muffin at the local café, Bar Casino, where everyone, locals and tourists alike, stopped to grab a bite, a coffee, a beer and then headed southeast along the waterfront following the route to get to the trail to the lighthouse, Far de Cala Nans. It was a moderate …