As some of you know, I am heading out to Europe for the next five weeks. I leave on Thursday, May 27th and come back Sunday, July 4th (if I was American my return date might be more metaphorical LOL)
With only a couple of weeks left to get ready I am trying to figure out how I am going to do all the gazillion things I plan to do in such a short period of time.
So here are some of the things I will absolutely do on this trip:
1. I will take my grandmother's remains back to her home and bury them alongside her ancestors (and her husband) - more on my grandmother later.
2. I will go see Dracula's favorite haunts including his castle and his burial place.
3. I am definitely hitting some major places in Italy: the Vatican, Verona (where my mother's father comes from) Florence, Tuscany, Pompey... and many others
4. I am then heading out to Greece - here I will go to Athens, Sparta, Delphi Myconos etc.... I can't even imagine what it will be like to stand in the footsteps of the ancient Greeks - I've dreamt about it since I was 4 yrs old and my first real reading book was one of Greek myths
5. Finally, I will take a cruise ship to Turkey where I will visit what remains of the object of my doctoral thesis, Artemis' temple - from there I will go on and visit Mary's house as well as John's... don't know how to feel about this yet, seems far away as it is the last stop of my trip.
Along the way I will post as much as I can about what its like to travel in the footsteps of vampires, Greek gods and Romans. This is my first return home (after 22 yrs) but I think it will most likely be my last. There is really no one left there since my enormous family is scattered all over the world outside of our homeland. This is what happens when people try to escape the atrocities of a dictatorship.
I am also trying to figure out how to sync my Picassa album to this blog so you can see pics as I upload them... we shall see how that endeavour goes LOL...
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