RETHYMNO Manolis drove me safely down the mountain, out of the snow and into the sunshine, on a day when massive waves were crashing over the breakwater along the Rethymno seafront. He was kind enough to carry my bags into the Old Town (where once again no cars are allowed) and make sure I was …
CHANIA I flew from Rome to Athens. From Athens to the airport in Chania, and landed in the middle of a storm. I had forgotten that the US has a large military base at Souda Bay, and the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier was just coming into port for repairs to the damage it …
I have been to Italy several times, and yes, it is one of my very favorite places in the world. I would move there in a heartbeat if the Italians were more welcoming to transplants, but they make it very difficult. They seem to want to keep it for Italians! So I will have to …
......when traveling from place to place. It's also exhilarating, fun, exciting....and exhausting! From Wylman in northern England, I hopped on the train and headed south to Brighton, where my good friend Carole has a lovely condo she inherited from her mother-in-law. Carole and I met when we both worked for the Chicago Cubs. She still …
I left a rather chilly but sunny Mexico City and winged my way to Dallas, then Heathrow, finally landing in Newcastle-on-Tyne, the main city of Northumberland, UK. As you can see from the map, I am in the North country, close to the Scottish border. I arrived, and it was raining. I have been here …
My 6 weeks in the tiny village of Lagrasse will come to an end tomorrow. It has certainly been a time of quiet contemplation, lots of reading of good books, streaming of lots of movies and TV shows, long walks, some really good food, and many glasses of great wine accompanied by homemade foie gras …
Sometimes fate is kind and you find the perfect house and pet sit with a most generous, and hospitable homeowner, who has a loveable, if very vocal feline, in a location that has fantastic transportation, a mile-long High Street Market filled with fresh fruit & veggies, and vendors of all kinds, in walking distance to …
For the past two weeks, the 'anomaly' of beautiful, sunshine-filled days has continued, which made exploring Belfast and the countryside so much more pleasant. Since the last time I posted, I have walked through a bubble-filled archway in the tiny alleyway downtown; spent a lovely Friday morning wandering through St. George's Market; spent a lovely …
I've been getting emails, and phone calls asking me 'where you you now?' Like the the children's series of books called Where's Waldo? or that game, Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?, friends are asking where did ReAnn go after her time in the Algrave ended? BELFAST, NORTHERN IRELAND! My good friend, Ruth, whom …
PARIS I talked my friend, Jan, while visiting me in Portugal in March, to fly to Paris to attend four of the largest and most jaw-dropping fashion exhibits ever mounted in the City of Lights...and Haute Couture. In the 3 days we were there, besides the exhibitions, we saw as much as we could possibly …
My Home on the Roam 