Tag: #traveldiary
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You may remember a famous commercial about the wrong company; especially when traveling, a type that really annoys me is the negative type. This area of the world is not only nature and colonial cities, but also Mayan archaeological remains. Copan (Honduras) I chose this itinerary because it was very varied, and because it also…
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The last anticipated event of the trip was the sight of the giant tortoise beach. It was not a given that we would be able to see them because it was not the best time of the year. The featured photo is not mine but from the beautiful pixabay site , the other photos are…
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I decided to visit Crete in winter, with a double stopover in Athens around New Year’s Day 2020. I did it for one week and solo. To get around I used (in addition to two domestic flights) both rental cars and public transportation. This trip fits into the list of those to very touristy but…
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I begin to frame fellow travelers It only took me a few hours to begin to frame my fellow travelers. There were some very nice people, but I would not find the woman of my life. Plus I was going to have to be very patient, as there were a lot of selfies among my…
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Sleeping in the dormitory Several times I have had to sleep in the dormitory. But doing it with 20 teenagers during the Vienna tournament is the top. We sleep in sleeping bags inside classrooms, on camp mattresses, all together! Unforgettable are the teenage smells made worse by uniforms that can’t be washed and with which…
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The wadi and the pedicure fish. What I call pedicure fish were a surprise I enjoyed on that first day of the new year. Wadis are rivers, often running dry that in some cases have their beds carved into the rock, like small canyons. There are several, I chose to do only the Bani Khalid…
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Bad weather forces me to change my schedule and I’m jumping on the cities of Trentino In my program was already the idea of visiting the cities of Trentino, but due to bad weather I devoted more time to it. As normally happens in the mountains, even in the Dolomites in summer, it rains often.…
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Climbing a volcano and toasting marshmallows with lava was a somewhat silly activity on the schedule that tickled my fancy for original things quite a bit. Antigua We landed in Guatemala City (famous for crime) and skipped it altogether to move to Antigua. Passing through the capital again in the following days, they did not…
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The basketball tournament Not having children, my experience of traveling with teenagers has been with my basketball players; I have been coaching for a lifetime. One of the things I have done the most in Europe is to visit Vienna. Where in the week of Easter they hold a huge basketball tournament with hundreds of…
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Nizwa The ‘time came for the alternative New Year’s Eve, which I celebrated in the desert in Oman. From Muscat airport I took the rental car booked at the time; good price with the addition that fuel costs exactly half as much as in Italy. For so long I was hesitant about renting cars on…