Ok. Here is the schedule roughly–
May 9 -22: Lake Como, Italy. My niece, Maiya, is getting married on the 15th.
May 22-24. Milan. Mostly to sightsee
May 24-27. Fly to Sardinia, car and ferry to La Maddelena where Max and I met in 1985. Lots of precious memories revisited.
May 27: Ferry to Bonifacio,Corsica, we will meet our friends Karen and Steve and board their Catamaran on the 28th.
May 28-June 13: Cruise down the coast of Sardinia to Sicily. Swimming, sun, eating, maybe some sewing.
June 13-15: Catania, Sicily
June 15-June 29: Madrid..we really have not planned anything from here on, except a couple of dinner reservations.
June 29-July 9: Lisbon
July 9-July 22: Copenhagen
July 22-August 5: Vienna
August 5- 26. OATS Ultimate African Safari and Capetown
August 27-September 4: Portland Maine for Marisol’s Wedding (sister of Maiya!)
I like having a Mission Statement. I think about what lured us to make a particular trip.
For this HUGE, SLOW trip to Europe…I want to spend time being rather then doing. My heroes are the travelers in the late 1800’s who would go somewhere and stay long enough to PLAY BRIDGE in the afternoon.
PAST TRIPS: Iceland it was the idea of 300,000 people making a whole, functioning country AND the immediacy of their geology.
Prague and Krakow were both walled cities that were not destroyed in WW2 and after seeing so many rebuilt cities,I was ready for some original stuff.
Egypt…to feel the past. The really distant past. And the Islamic present.
Russia ..The Hermitage. It just fascinated me.. I think the art, which we love to look at, but also the idea that it was collected from Europe when Russians were not entirely identified as European.
SE Asia: It was just a mystery to me.
All those trips surpassed expectations.
Summer of Slow Travel 