Reading and Roaming
WINDING DOWN MAINE Our airline threw us a curve when it changed our departing flight from a very civilized 12:45 pm to before sunrise at 6:00 am. Thus, we left our rental house a day early, drove down to Portland and spent the night at the airport Hilton Garden Inn,. We’d been told that the hotel was …
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FLORIDA FROLIC: ST. AUGUSTINE In our quest to become better acquainted with our home state, we’ve been taking short trips to cities not that far from us. For the last two years, we and good friends made a December trip to Winter Park to visit the museums, cruise on the lake, and sample the local eateries. This year, …
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VISITING NORTH CAROLINA How I spent my summer vacation. Wrong season, how I spent Thanksgiving week. The Chief Penguin and I were in North Carolina to visit my sisters and their families and spent time in both Greensboro and Chapel Hill with brisk walks to Greensboro’s Bog and Centennial Gardens, excursions to Winston-Salem, to the marvelous McIntyre’s …
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After our highlights tour, we had four more full days in Athens. You might wonder what we did. After checking into the Ava Hotel, a boutique hotel nicely located in the Plaka neighborhood, we just wandered the neighborhood enjoying lunch at Yiosemi, a nearby café where the cheese pie and the orange pie (really cake) were yummy. …
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