Storyline: Bulgaria with Alex
My childhood memory lane goes through my tummy. Continue reading “Homecoming to my childhood”
Homecoming to my childhood
Going “home”
Storyline: 50 years later
April 12 2018:
Today we are truly visiting my past. We are going to see the house where I lived for my first 13+ years. Last night we researched how to get there on the transit system and found that one bus would take us from Piccadilly Gardens through Salford and Eccles and onwards to Winton. Of course, it’s all Greater Manchester now, and I’m not sure that Winton exists; but the old neighbourhood does. Continue reading “Going “home””
Homeland at last
Storyline: 50 years later
April 11 2018:
Made it through the first full day in my homeland in fifty years. Just. We arrived in London yesterday morning and, jet-lagged and half asleep, had a very filling brunch of much fried, greasy and delicious breakfast food. Spent two hours half-awake on the train to Manchester and, after checking into our small but comfy hotel room on the border of Chinatown and the Gay village, went on a search for a veggie-rich, grease-poor light dinner. Continue reading “Homeland at last”
Why Rusty Rails?
We both love trains. It comes from our childhood. Trains were and still are the basic, affordable intercity public transportation available to everyone in Europe. Alas, not in Canada, where the auto and airline industries are king and queen. Continue reading “Why Rusty Rails?”
