Category: Kindness of Others
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Smitten With Australia
We were so smitten with Australia it is hard to write about our time there without sounding like a Chamber of Commerce travelogue. There was Brisbane, a charming city with a marvelous ferry system on its lifeblood, the Brisbane River, that winds its way through the city. It has one of the best outdoor spaces…
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Russia Is a Geography, Not a State of Mind
Our trip across the Russian Federation was quite the adventure. We traveled about seventy-five hundred kilometers in thirty-six days across five time zones on the Trans-Siberian network of railways and local trains, cars, and buses. Along the way, doing a lot of walking, and using public transportation, we explored ten cities, three villages, and the countryside around…
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Touring Kaliningrad and the Jazz Festival: Days 2 and 3
On Sunday the weather turned warm and sunny and we decided to explore Kaliningrad. As I mentioned in my post Kaliningrad and the Jazz Festival, Kaliningrad is not a tourist city. As we wandered we noticed there were not many dogs, not much cell phone photo taking, no other languages spoken other than Russian, and…
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Kaliningrad and the Jazz Festival: Day 1
We spent the first full day recovering from jet lag, and getting ready to attend the jazz festival. When we got to Kaliningrad on Thursday, it had been cold and raining for a week, and the weather was hardly what one would call summery. The Jazz Festival was being held at night for three nights,…