Waiting for a tram in Ban Jelacic Square
I hesitate to use the word Holiday for my trip to Croatia because some of my readers get testy when I talk about “going on holiday” as if I am undeserving of a break….Ha! The Merriam – Webster Dictionary uses holiday and vacation interchangeably with this definition…a period of time that a person spends away from home or business usually in order to relax or travel. I think my trip fits the description perfectly…undeserving or not.
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Here I am trying to figure out this Turkish Culture and I have a lot of questions…I’m stumped. Now my friends and long time acquaintances are rolling their eyes and saying to themselves, so what’s new. But there are other readers out there who are probably saying…how can it be that this brilliant, witty, well traveled blogger is stumped. Continue Reading…
For six years I have been on the road circling the globe in search of what, I ask myself. Have I really been searching for something, someplace or have I just been wandering for the sake of wandering. This is the question most of my friends ask me…why are you doing this, how can you do this, what is the end game. And these are all valid questions that I don’t have a ready answer for. When I started out I just wanted to find a new, different, interesting, low cost place to live. I was going to be a typical expat…find the perfect place, settle down, duplicate some form of my previous life and that would be that.
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A young woman throws pots in the little town of Yandabo where everyone in the village is involved in making pots.
The dusty streets of Yandabo
As our trip on the Irrawaddy River started to wind down, we had just a few more stops to make on our Viking River Cruise. For me the stop in the small craft village of Yandabo was a highlight of our river trip. The main industry and almost sole occupation of the people of this village it to make hand crafted pottery which they are doing using methods handed down for centuries. Continue Reading…
Boats tie up along the Irrawaddy River in the early morning. This is the starting point for a visit to Bagan…the Ancient capital of the Burmese.
