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Exercise: Begin a Story – “Strange Lands”
“It’s time to go, and I get up to find my bag. The people in the rows around me are muddling along just as I am. Despite this, I am obsessed with the idea that I’m not moving fast enough, and that they all hate me for my incompetence as an international traveler.” Continue reading
Posted in writing, Writing, Writing about Writing
Tagged air travel, airbus, anxiety, cz, Czech Republic, european travel, european trip, fiction, fiction writing, flash draft, flash fiction, foreigner, jet lag, outsider, Prague, travel, travel anxiety, travelogue, write, write every day, writing, writing exercise
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Point of View Exercise – Travel Memoir (of 2014, written in 2020)
The man, pausing momentarily in uncertainty on Platform #3, makes a sudden turn as if kicked into gear. He marches down the stairs. He banks around a local man and his aged wife. The old man drags luggage up the ramp running alongside the stairs as the wife looks on in the silent judgment of a person who both requires someone’s assistance and one who doesn’t approve of the manner in which the assistance is being rendered. Continue reading
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Tagged creative writing, Czech Republic, euro travel, europe, Europe by Train, european travel, fiction, literary devices, narrative, perspective, point of view, rail travel, slow tourism, Tourism, tourist, train travel, travel, travelogue, usti nad lebem, writing, writing assignment, writing challenge, writing exercise, writing prompt
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Rail Travel in Europe
I get a kick out of train rides. We’re really missing out in the U.S., I can tell you. Some of us have ridden the Amtrak trains – I have on four occasions for somewhat lengthy trips and once more … Continue reading
What to Expect from Coffee in Europe
First, I’ll put this up top this time: check out the summer’s collection of posts on the main 2017 travel page. — At the Athens airport, I had a long layover. Seven hours, actually. The duration of this stopover wasn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged cappuccino, Coffee, coffee culture, cultural differences, Culture, Czech Republic, espresso, europe, european, former USSR, georgia, germany, greece, Italy, Slow Travel, travel, traveling, USA
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Würzburg: A Gem in Germany
Note: New Photos Included! Reliable Internet Access Acquired. Würzburg, situated to the west of Nuremberg and a mere 45-minute train ride away, quickly stole my heart. Less popular than it’s neighbor to the east (though still crawling with tourists at … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2015
Tagged castle, Castles, cesky krumlov, Czech Republic, europe by rail, German History, germany, gunpowder age, History, medieval, star fort, travel, traveling, Wurzburg
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