Nighttime fills me with wandering thoughts all so strange and never sure,
Where will it end,
I hope for sleep, yet sleep eludes me
Filling me up instead with dread
Oh the joys of getting older..
I'm back, youhou!
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I wonder as I wander....like most of my adventures this one started out by chance, but I hope it entertains those friends I have scattered about..
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Recommended cities to visit..
- Alcobaca Portugal(Helio!, and oldest monastery)
- Belem,Portugal (Monastery and egg custards)
- Berlin, Germany (unbelievably eclectic mix of people and architecture)
- Bordeaux France
- Brittany region of France
- Broceliande Forest
- Cappadocia, Turkey
- Coimbra Portugal (medieval university city)
- Edinburgh, Scotland (for me the medieval alleyways)
- Feldkirch, Austria (medieval city-great hihostel)
- Florence, Italy (wine,museums,beautiful people)
- Glasgow, Scotland (atmosphere and people)
- Gotland, Sweden (island)(medieval city!)
- Highlands of Scotland, if you like sheep!
- Interlaken, Switzerland
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Kiruna, Sweden (above artic circle)
- Lausanne, Switzerland
- Les Grisons, Switzerland
- Lisbon (food, churches, people)
- Mardin,Turkey
- Montreal in the summer (festivals- outdoor cafes)
- Montreux, Switzerland and environs
- Munich, Germany (lemon beer and the Alte Pinothek Museums)
- Navarre Portugal (old fishing village, church)
- Obridos Portugal (medieval city)
- Oslo, Norway (statues,Oseberg ship)
- Paris, France (but only for the museums!)
- Quebec, all of the St.Laurence region
- Rennes, France (gallette saucisse)
- Sofia, Bulgaria (history,people,ham!)
- South of Turkey for the sea.
- Stockholm, Sweden
- Tomar Portugal (Knights of Templar monastary/castle)
- Urfa, Turkey
- Val David Quebec (small village)
- Vannes, France (Medieval City)
- Vendee region of France (cheese, countryside )
Recommended reading
- A Peace to End All Peace, creation of Middle East (David Fromkin)
- Anais Nin Diary Vol.1
- Bradley-Lady Audley's Secret
- Brecht- Threepenny Novel
- Bronte,C.-Wuthering Heights
- By a Woman Writ (short pieces of feminist writings)
- Carey,J. Kushiel's Trilogy
- Chekhov- Complete Short Stories
- Dostoevsky-Brother's Karamazov (Pevear and Volokhonsky trans.)
- Dostoevsky-Crime and Punishment
- Gogol-The Nose
- Ibsen-A Doll's House
- Kostova, The Historian
- Penguin Book of Women Poets
- Raudis, Frida Kahlo
- Richardson, Laurel-The Dynamics of Sex and Gender
- Stokes- Dracula
- The Penguin 20th Century Modern Russian Reader
- Trevanian-Shibumi
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