Author name: jade

Sicily

Tuesday, September 3 While on the 1.5 hour sunset ferry from Malta to Sicily, the phrase “the sun has set not long ago” poped into mind, my brain filled in “now everybody goes down below” so I asked myself “what was that from?” I Googled to find it’s from Sandra Boynton’s “The going to bed […]

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Malta

Saturday, August 31 Stepping into the evening heat of Malta, we dropped our bags quickly at our 400 year-old hotel to source our evening meal. We witnessed the golden hour on Fort St. Angelo on the far side of the harbor and found delicious food before we passed out. Sunday, September 1 Valletta is an

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Moldova

Companies in Romania sometimes use “Rom” as a prefix to their name e.g. Rompetrol, Romarm, Romtech. Companies in Moldova sometimes use “Mold” as a prefix e.g. Moldsoft, Moldacom, Moldcell. As an English speaker, Mold-anything is disconcerting. Sunday, July 7 The five+ hour bus ride from Reni to Chisinau was hot and progressively crowded. I wasn’t

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Ukraine

Saturday, July 6 At the Romanian/Moldovan border, when told we were going to Reni, the border control agent asked incredulously “why?” She accepted “tourist” but punctuated it with a slight eye roll. We started walking the 1.6km through the narrow swath of land of Moldova we had to traverse to get to the Ukrainian border

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