Crappy sleep on a cement bed with rock-like pillows at Ananti City Resort. The dirty laundry beginning to mount and as we are on a whirlwind expedition no time for visiting any laundry facilities. I conducted a brief inventory and have just enough clothes to make it to the 25September the day we fly backContinue reading “2026 Greek Travel Adventure: 20September2026: Trikala/Piraeus/Hydra: Give Me A Washing Machine: Where Can I Find a Good Latte?”
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RKS POLISH Literature: Song of the Bridesmaids (Władysław Reymont)
The girl began to cry- Such a wedding did they give her, Four candles they lit for her, The organ they played to her. Did you think, O girl, that For you they’d always play a song? A little yesterday, a little today…. Then cry your whole life long Da dana! Cry your whole lifeContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Song of the Bridesmaids (Władysław Reymont)”
American Ambassador to Canada Names First Recipient of Canadians Making America Great Again to Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation
Spoof News Services: Stoney Creek, Ontario: 21October2026 Zeke Huffinpuff the United States Ambassador to Canada announced today he was awarding the first Canadians Making America Great Again award to the Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation (OLG) for its promotion of travel to the United States referencing a current OLG advertisement for the 6/49 Lottery. AContinue reading “American Ambassador to Canada Names First Recipient of Canadians Making America Great Again to Ontario Lottery and Gaming Corporation”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Against All Warnings We Travel Into the Eye of the Storm and Are Rewarded with Incredible Argentinian Beef
Months prior we had booked the Ananti City Resort in Trikala which is a 35-minute drive from Meteora. We, along with T and I, had received a post booking notice, sort of sounding like a warning, that there was to be a boisterous wedding celebration at the hotel on the night of our arrival andContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Against All Warnings We Travel Into the Eye of the Storm and Are Rewarded with Incredible Argentinian Beef”
RKS POLISH Literature: Death Claims All (Władysław Reymont)
‘God bless you, but mark also you are a little old, and everyone is mortal, for: Death is not choosy Today a man, tomorrow a sheep With equal scrutiny she’ll reap.’ ‘I’m strong; I’ll hold out another twenty years, never you fear!’ ‘And Fearless was eaten by wolves.’ Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Death Claims All (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: No Punishment for Thievery (Władysław Reymont)
Cause there’s no punishment for thievery. Ha, what’ll they do? Stick’em in jail, and give ‘em sommat to eat, where they’ll be nice and warm, pick up some tricks from their mates and when they let ‘em go they’ll be better thieves than ever after all that schoolin’. Władysław Reymont, “The Peasants”, 1909 Photo: R.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: No Punishment for Thievery (Władysław Reymont)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Warning Signs of Over Tourism in Greece? Death in the Rocks
We reach Meteora the most significant monastic centre in Greece after Mount Athos and is a protected UNESCO World Heritage Site. Monasticism began here in the 11th century reaching its peak in the 13th and 14th centuries when many devotees chose the ascetic life. There are six operating monasteries. I have visited two of themContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Warning Signs of Over Tourism in Greece? Death in the Rocks”
RKS POLISH Literature: Men are Like Hogs Sticking Snouts in Throughs! (Władysław Reymont)
‘If Dad don’t take a third wife!’ shouted Jagustynka, somewhere from the third strip. ‘Give over that they just buried their mother in spring,’ said Hanka, in a tone of alarm. ‘What does that bother a man. Every one of ’em’s like that hog: no matter how drunk, he’ll rush to stick his snout inContinue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: Men are Like Hogs Sticking Snouts in Throughs! (Władysław Reymont)”
RKS POLISH Literature: The Incessant Polish Rain (Władysław Reymont)
A grey pall of rain shrouded the whole world and drank the colours dry, smothering the light and submerging the earth in shadow, so that everything seemed like the delirium of a dream, and sadness rose from the stagnant fields, from the torpid forest, from the lifeless wastes, and slouched heavily in a thick cloud.Continue reading “RKS POLISH Literature: The Incessant Polish Rain (Władysław Reymont)”
2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Please, Pretty Please Let There be a Petrol Station: Herds of Cows Blocking the Road
Up bright and early at 06:30 for a shower before breakfast. As so Euro there seems to a different shower system in each hotel. Turn? Pull out? Pull back and twist? Burn your tush or freeze it? Eventually you figure it all out. Just something to conquer and master in your travels and it isContinue reading “2026 GREEK TRAVEL ADVENTURE: Short Attention Span Version: 20September2026: Delphi/Meteora: Please, Pretty Please Let There be a Petrol Station: Herds of Cows Blocking the Road”
