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Christmas in Siena

   I love the idea of Christmas, a time of year when we are all a little happier, we are all a little kinder, and when we are all a little more generous to those less fortunate. As with Ebinezer Scrooge in the “Christmas Carol,” the Christmas season is a chance for redemption, an opportunity […]

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Boating

Cotytto

     Cotytto is the Thracian goddess of debauchery, she is also my friend’s 47ft. Grand Banks yacht. I don’t remember the year he bought her, I think it was 2007. It doesn’t matter, what’s important, is every year since, we have spent a lot of time on her, and every August since, we have […]

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Europe

The City of a Hundred Spires

     Prague, the “City of a Hundred Spires,” the “Mother of all Cities,” I can’t think of a better city to wander about in, and “lose the person I’ve become.”      I have family there, and a friend or two, so for me Prague is more than a vacation destination, its personal. Prague is […]

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Europe

Prague & Budapest…The Itinerary

     A trip itinerary as a blog post? Well, we’ll see how it goes. I’ll add some useful links, and maybe someone will get something out of it. Prague Saturday: We land in Prague Saturday evening and are staying at the Hotel Bishop’s House. We have been to Prague twice before; the first time we […]

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