micetrail
Travel adventures & observations – local and global
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- Oman and thoughts of UAE
- 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
Category: Wanderlust
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OK…no promises for 2020 and not traveling. At the end of 2019 and a couple of weeks after my Poland/Czech Republic/Lisbon trip I headed off to Mexico to meet up with my friend Jano. Taking a non-stop from Oakland to Leon and then a car from Leon to San Miguel was pretty easy way of…
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Heading out from Warsaw and on the way to Kraków, we stopped at a (I guess) famous monastery Częstochowa with the Black Madonna…Our Lady of Jasna Gora. Now I’ve seen a couple of Black Madonna’s in my lifetime (Bolivia…a small statue; Mexico City…a painting) and being curious had to figure out what the heck this…
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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…