(as always, pictures look better if you read on blog site not email). We began this round of travel December 1, 2025. It was a patchwork that included Malta, Southern England (Lewes, Ditchling), London, Sarajevo, Montenegro, The Baltics (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania) and Poland (reports all found on this website). But we always start and endContinue reading “Cheers, again”
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Dziękuję, Polska
Dziękuje, pronounced Jen Koo Ya is thank you. As suggested by the mismatch of spelling and speaking for us English speakers, Polish was as difficult to attempt as the Cyrillic and Hebrew we attempted in the past. We always try to learn the basics- “good morning”, “hello”, “thank you”, “excuse me”. A lot of times,Continue reading “Dziękuję, Polska”
G’day Gdańsk
Early in our 2026 travels in Sarajevo, we stood at the corner in Sarajevo where Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand beginning WWI https://chosenfugue.xyz/2026/03/27/history-repeats-itself/ Fittingly, we wrapped up this round of travel where WWII began with Germany’s Polish invasion in Gdańsk September 1939. (Pics will look better viewed on the blog not the email). Gdańsk wasContinue reading “G’day Gdańsk”
5 Days, 3 Cities, 2 Confused
Although the temperature has not gotten past 15 C (59 F), spring is coming, tourists invading (including us), accommodations getting limited. Time to stop the spontaneity and cram three cities into a 5 day work week. Kind of like the 1969 movie “If it’s Tuesday, it must be Belgium”. As a result Wroclaw, Łódź andContinue reading “5 Days, 3 Cities, 2 Confused”
Time Warp in Warsaw
We’ve been reading a book series called On the Calculation of Volume by Danish writer Solvey Balle. Four of the 6 books are available in English (7 books planned). It’s a variation on the Groundhog’s Day theme of a repeated day. In her case, the day is November 18th. It began while she was onContinue reading “Time Warp in Warsaw”
Baltic Balagon
After our emotional visit to Vilnius we elected to have a spa day. Not that we have ever had a spa day. Regardless, we headed to Druskininkai a well known spa resort on the Nemunas River in southern Lithuania renown for its mineral waters. (pictures show up better on the blog, click on the linkContinue reading “Baltic Balagon”
A Serious Vilnius
Vilnius, Lithuania; Wilno to Poles who called it home until after WW2, Vilna in Yiddish. Dubbed the Jerusalem of North by Napoleon. Nicknamed Babylon in the 16th-18th due to its multi-ethnic demographic. It was not until independence in 1990, that for the first time in modern history Lithuanians became a majority at 63%. of theContinue reading “A Serious Vilnius”
Fallinn for Tallinn
(pictures better viewed on the blog not the email) Travel, obviously, takes you somewhere you haven’t been. It forces you to figure out how to get somewhere, where to stay, how to shop and how to work those weird tumbler washing machines with instructions in another language. New experiences, doing routines differently. Much of theContinue reading “Fallinn for Tallinn”
History repeats itself
Sometimes in our travels we are just emotionally overwhelmed by a place. Sometimes it is staggering beauty, other times it is the history; cities whose names represent the worse of humans, places where religious differences are used for hatred and killing people. Cities such as Munich, Jerusalem, Belfast and now Sarajevo have evoked theseContinue reading “History repeats itself”
Southeast England, 2
We’ve been living (short term) in a lot of houses with our 57 pet sits so we have seen a lot of different houses. Plus our 8 houses. Then add in all of the apartments we have stayed in or rented between sits, in our almost full time traveling over 9 years. So, our lifeContinue reading “Southeast England, 2”
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