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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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Summer Camp in Corfu, Greece
“You’re looking different! Browner, shirt open – not like a school teacher!” the host beamed. I wasn’t sure what she meant by her last, and I didn’t feel changed as compared to a few days earlier, but she was probably … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged backpacking, beaches, corfu, Culture, europe, Europe Trip, european travel, greece, hostel, hostel culture, meeting new people, pelekas beach, reading, relaxation, Slow Travel, travel, traveling, travelogue, travels, writing
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Travelers Have Bad Days, Too (Athens)
I’m not sure what to say about Athens. I want to be charitable, and I really wanted to like it. I was in the city for three nights, arriving late for the first and departing very early following the third. … Continue reading
Posted in Travelogue, Travelogue 2017, Travels
Tagged aegean, athens, attitude problems, backpacking, bad day, corfu, europe, european travel, european trip, expectations, garbage, greece, metro, pickpockets, rome, Slow Travel, travel, travelers blues, traveling, travelogue
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Bergen, Norway: The High Cost of Low Living
I arrived in Bergen yesterday afternoon. It’s a lovely town, but not the sort of place with which I could fall in love. It’s a tourist haven. It feels like the outdoorsperson’s variant of a place like Bruges or the … Continue reading
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Tagged bergen, budget, budget travel, eating on a budget, europe, Europe Trip, hostels, norway, travel, traveling, travelogue
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