micetrail
Travel adventures & observations – local and global
recent posts
- Spring in Sri Lanka (or rather sweating) – 2025
- A journey to Western Australia and the Outback – 2024
- Christmas Markets with my Sis – 2023
- No traveling recently so…here’s some musings on massages around the world
- Algerian & Tunisian Highlights
- Adventure in Algeria & Tunisia – 2022
- An interesting time to be in the Baltics
- Cuba Libre
- Crete was a bit of a bust…
Author: micetrail
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Interesting…the year 2019 was supposed to be a non-travel year. Since I traveled so much in 2018, my thoughts went to a rest for 2019. But suppositions don’t make reality and the year hadn’t finished Spring when my friend Andrew suggested we head off to the Chelsea Flower Show and surrounds. I did write and…
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If you have luggage do not, DO NOT, take the escalator. Look for the nearest elevator and Wait. A little late for advice but…next time. Handling one small roll-aboard, a back pack, my purse and a bag with 2 boxes of Lucky Charms (for a friend), I popped on the Metro escalator coming from the…
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It’s been some time since I’ve been in touch but I just got the writing “jones” to update any of you interested peeps. If you’ve kept up you might know I’ve been traveling in Europe and North Africa for a little over 9 months…a welcome relief. But it is wonderful to be home… Today I…
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Just returned from Morocco on a small group tour (8 peeps and my favored way to travel if not alone). I met my travel buddy Andrew in Tangier for a couple of days, prior to joining the group. We stayed in a 3-story airbnb in the Médina with steep stairs between floor and a wonderful…
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Heading off to Geneva to visit CERN and the LHC…something I’ve been wanting to experience since the Higgs Boson discovery. I guess most people go for the scenery, skiing, and banking secrecy but I just wanted to stand above the protons smashing together 100 feet below and scattering whatever smaller particles the impact revealed. I…
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Thailand? China? Burma? Nope! I’m back in Portugal and north of Lisbon near Obidos which is pretty much in the center of the country. This is a crazy “sculpture park” in the middle of nowhere called Buda Heden (Buddha Eden). It was sponsored by a Portuguese investor and art aficionado after the Buddhas of Banyon…
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Maybe a bit too much traveling? After my stay in the Basque Country (read previous issue) my next stop was the Azores. I miscalculated a bit, however, by flying to Lisbon to unpack and repack and fly out within 7 hours. Definitely no sleep this time. Anyway, that done, I headed to Terceira Island in…
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I’m not sure what I expected but guess I’m guilty of nostalgia or just plain ignorant. (Yes, I know.). I’m picturing peasants and dirndls and folk dancing and rolling hills and well, “Country”. Who knows? Who knew? It’s a happening place with many, many tourists and a party atmosphere. Beachgoers, surfers, boaters. San Sebastián/Donostia Wow!…
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Thoughts from Rome: How can people talk soooo much. Sitting here outdoor at a restaurant in Trastevera after a delicious saltimboca romana. The woman next to me from England has not stopped talking. Amazing. Of course, I guess I talk a lot too but I only have myself to bore. She’s with her husband who…
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