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Transatlantic – it’s all the same!

Good day My dear readers. We’re on a transatlantic crossing with plans to stay for a while in Italy (Tuscany), Croatia (Istria), Venice, Greece (just the highlights) and then to England. I recommend this kind of travel only for the hardy as one can easily eat too much, drink too much, sleep too much. Excess is never good!  We are learning Italian. For example… "Dove il trattoria… Ho fame!" "Where is the restaurant… I’m hungry!" One should not ever get hungry on a cruise like this!  We scan the buffets and find amazing appetisers: calimari, oysters, salads, lamb, and salmon…. I’m trying to skip dessert. For breakfast there are eggs over easy, grits and bacon. … Just like home. I remember to write a journal for it is easy to lose track of days. We awake at 6am, watch the sun rise and think of home. What day is it? Does it really matter? The Atlantic looks the same from both sides and the sun always rises in the East.  We are headed out of the Atlantic, through the straits of Gibraltar, into the Mediterranean tonight and my thoughts go to Ulysses who first thought he might try to sail out of the pond that is the Mediterranean, but wondered if he would then fall off the earth for the earth at that time was thought to be flat. … May God bless my friends and family. Please think kindly of us, the wandering travelers. Health and peace. Susie