Tag: backpackers
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2010 Journal – Chapter 20
Cork and Blarney May 16, 2010 at 12:30 PM Saturday, May 15th 2010Cork, Ireland Last night at dinner I met up with a very nice German woman by the name of Claudia, we sat together at dinner talking and comparing travel notes on where we had been. She is 29 and has been traveling on…
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2010 Journal – Chapter 19
Travel days and first thoughts on Ireland May 14, 2010 at 11:25 AM Travel days and first thoughts on IrelandFriday May 14th, 2010Cork, Ireland As you all know Wednesday was a sort of hard day for having to leave Edinburgh and Stuart. I spent all day on the train switching three different times to at…
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A Love Letter to Notre Dame
The glitz of the tourist trail was stunning. Tears were shed at the Mona Lisa in the Louvre. I “wowed” my way through Versailles, and I acted like a giddy child at the Musee de Cluny. Yet with all the power of other places the Cathedral de Notre Dame had a power that no other…