I can’t believe how much I got to travel this year. Much of this is thanks to my husband’s vast knowledge of credit card points. There’s so much I observed, but here, for this post on a traveler’s thoughts, I decided to share something personal – what I liked. And didn’t. It’s simple. No explanations, no justification. Just one girl’s opinion.
Here’s what I love about England:
awesome sign phrasing
Humps.
No ball games.
Blind summit.
my vocabulary improved here
the front of cars are short, which helps with turn radius for small spaces
yellow warning traffic light before it turns green, just as we already have before the red light
politeness
nice drivers, plus they use headlights to communicate
the cloud – free internet available in most sizeable towns!
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Here’s what I don’t understand about England:
two faucets, one hot, one cold
road systems – why are there letters and numbers?
low street signs, often blocked by cars or bushes and not out by the street
This one`s not quite so bad, but still.
Just plain hard to see. But also precious.
London Underground prices
huge outlets and plugs
smoking
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Here’s what I liked about Italy:
the Dolomites
Ummmm yeah.
plants and flowers everywhere
A garden FULL of jasmine! Such gorgeous allergies.
coffee. coffee. coffee.
Can you not see his joy?
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What’s not great about Italy:
driving and drivers
tolls. tolls. tolls.
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In Slovenia, I loved:
slow pace
infrastructure
growth
green
Lake Bled.
walkways
stacked wood by every house
hay piles/shelves, by almost every house
B&B doors also function as windows. they’re multi-functional that way.
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What I missed about America basically tells you what else I didn’t enjoy abroad:
free bathrooms
no sound barriers on highway – no obstructed views
{Seriously, they were like this but much worse and opaque and you couldn’t see any beautiful things!}
free water
free highways
less smoking
street signs
positivity about life
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I guess the sum of it is, coming home is sweet. But it’s also not perfect, and there’s so much beauty elsewhere, that we must seek adventures, you and I. We must cherish our home and our adventures as two sides of the same coin of wholeness. And those are today’s traveler thoughts.