I came home two months ago to tangelos. Lots of tangelos. There are still some on the tree but not as many now.
My recent adventures in Italy are documented here.
I’m always planning a new adventure…even after having just arrived home from one.
Next trip…Lord Howe Island.
I’ll be posting to Heart in Abruzzo soon, but for now I am in Puglia learning Italian and generally enjoying the hospitality of the lovely people of Lecce and the Salento region.
Hello dear followers. I am not making regular posts to this site. It is intended to consolidate old sites and to link to new ones. Current posts can be found on Heart in Abruzzo and on MLT at Large. Feel free to follow my current travels in Abruzzo, Italy.
Meanwhile here’s a picture of some ravioli.
Flashback to December 2013. This was at the 3.5 hour mark on a walk to view Mount FitzRoy outside of El Chaltén, in central Patagonia, Argentina. I was sore and tired and afraid that if I sat there too long, I would not be able to get up…But we pressed on and I spent considerable time dreaming of a long soak in the bathtub back at our B & B.
Read more about this trip at Mostly Patagonia.
I don’t want to carry my computer on our upcoming trip. So I’m testing out this iPad idea. I want to be able to save drafts, upload pics to include, etc.
Not just dreaming but actual travel…
Here is is!: Ten Weeks in Italy
The country, that is. For some reason, I now have a burning desire to see this place…Not just Petra but Amman, Ajlun, Wadi Rum and Aqaba. From the Red Sea to the Dead Sea. This sort of trip will have to wait until we have time to do a proper trip around the Middle East and North Africa. Morocco, Egypt, Ethiopia, Israel. All on my radar.
I admit it. I am obsessed with travel. I have difficulty concentrating some days because I am daydreaming about places I want to go. I use to be a tad worried that this implied some sort of dissatisfaction with my life. But no, I am happy. I just have this extreme longing to see the exotic, hear a foreign language enough to start to learn it, taste new sensations.
On the horizon is a rather hum-drum trip to the Sunshine Coast to visit the mother-in-law in April. Then finally a trip to Italy where I will see my big sister and study Italian for 2-3 weeks. Then my husband will join me for some more travel in Italy and possibly beyond. I am getting excited just thinking about that.
Maybe I should not worry about the obsession. Just go with it. Enjoy that planning stage, relish in the research on where to stay, things to see, places to eat and drink, photo opportunities. Not just ‘Kodak moments’ but hills to climb for a view, medieval walled cities that just defy description, faces of the young and old that stay with you for long after the journey’s end.
I’ll go with it, but until the month before I will attempt to remain focussed on the now.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.
Mark Twain – Innocents Abroad
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