| EUROPE...What an Adventure!!! |
| You know, I've spent a lot of time saying things like 'someday', or 'I want to', 'I would like to', 'if only I could'...you know the routine. For a lot of years, my desire was to spend time and/or live in Europe...go to school. Some folks didn't believe I would ever get there. Then, things happened to change that. And I knew it would happen. Europe bound, with a backpack, a EuroRail Pass, all the info and gear Rick Steves supplied on his marvelous website, I set off on an AirFrance flight to Dusseldorf, Germany, to begin the sojourn of a Lifetime...by myself (a journey of Discovery in so many, many ways.) Thanks to a close and special friend I had never met before in person, but knew from a friendship that blossomed in my language exchange site, I spent a week in Dusseldorf, mostly exploring by myself the flavor and ambience of this Economics/Marketing oriented city. I walked all around the 'Ethnic Quarter' - made friends with a Flower Shop Owner, and learned to say, "Wo est Internet Cafe" (the internet cafe was very sleek and upmarket, with a bar at the end, a waiter who came around to your cubicle where a flat screen greeted you and got you coffee or drinks for a small fee; and where you purchased time on an internet credit card slid the card into the computer and worked away. |
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