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Category: Europe

Lost Luggage and More

July 27, 2023
carolkubota
Culture, Europe, Personal Stories, Women travelers

  Journal Entry Florence, Italy May 16, 2023 It has been an exciting day. Lesson 1 learned today:  Don’t wait for your bags to go through customs at Heathrow, London. Bags are automatically sent to your connecting flight, which is

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Lessons I learned traveling with a friend for fourteen days in Barcelona, Spain

January 20, 2022January 20, 2022
carolkubota
Culture, Europe

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain My friend Ruth Ann and I are still friends. We were together

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You Don’t Have to be Rich to Travel: 9 tips for DIY Travel Planning Retirees.

September 17, 2021September 17, 2021
carolkubota
Europe, Women travelers

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou.   “You

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Six Ways to Celebrate the Feast of The Three Kings

January 3, 2021January 4, 2021
carolkubota
Culture, Europe, USA

Christmas is over. You undressed your tree by taking off the ornaments and strings of lights and placing them in their designated plastic containers labeled “Christmas decorations.” You took your tree and put it in a “tree bag” or box

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Pizza for Breakfast?

October 8, 2020October 8, 2020
carolkubota
Culture, Europe

  “Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.” ― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of the Seven Gables Pizza for Breakfast? My friend Myra and I met for Breakfast at 8:00 a.m. at Farm

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A Quest for Milk

July 23, 2020September 18, 2020
carolkubota
Culture, Europe, Personal Stories

I reach into the dairy case at Safeway and grab my one-half gallon of Vitamin D whole milk. A five-year-old little boy with big brown eyes and curly black hair sits in the grocery cart. His dad reaches in and

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7 Things to see in Bath, England

January 25, 2020July 25, 2020
carolkubota
Culture, Europe

Get your comfy shoes on and head out the door of your hotel as soon as possible. Bath is a small UNESCO designated town. It is visited by world visitors and gets crowded on the weekends. I highly recommend taking

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Irish: A Story on Immigration

September 13, 2019September 13, 2019
carolkubota
Europe

Lush green fields dotted with sheep, mountain high cliffs overlooking the Atlantic Ocean, and waves lapping at the foot of the cliffs. Scenic views that call those with a bit of Irish blood from around the world to come and

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The Misplaced Passport

September 10, 2019
carolkubota
Europe, Personal Stories

I am never late. I arrive thirty minutes early for lunch, dinner dates, lectures, doctor’s appointments, and classes. I arrive at the airport two hours before my flight is scheduled to take off. I want to avoid possible traffic tickets,

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Mind the Gap: 7 Tips on Traveling Around England

June 28, 2019
carolkubota
Europe

Before I set off for England as a solo traveler, I tried to search for information on using trains and the subway for getting around. I wasn’t able to dig up any useful information. Maybe I was looking in the

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