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dreamsharkI'm pacing nervously around the house waiting to leave for the airport, wondering what I've forgotten to pack, what I packed too many of, whether I should go through the mail and pay some bills or something before I leave. Getting ready to go on a trip makes me really really nervous. Once I'm on the plane, I usually calm down and go with the flow, even when I do something like watch the pilot episode of Lost the night before.... (should have rented Airplane! to go with it).
I'm flying to Munich, where I will meet my darling daughter and start a 10-day voyage into Transylvania and back. See, she was finishing up a 9-month job/program in Austria and I thought it might be nice to visit her in Europe before she came back. Amber speaks fluent German, so what better companion to have for a visit to Vienna? Next country over is Hungary and what's next to Hungary? Transylvania!! I'm a long-time Bram Stoker fan. No, I don't watch Buffy and I don't read vampire romances or any of that stuff. I was just absolutely captivated by the travel diary that makes up the first third of Dracula. The looming snow-capped mountains, the howling wolves! The quaint little villages full of colorful Slovaks and Szgeny and Saxons and Gypsies! The paprika-chicken recipes!
Even in this day and age, Transylvania turns out to be a little bit hard to get to. We're going to be spending almost as much time on trains as in Transylvania itself. And I think I picked out the most expensive guesthouse in all of Romania on the Internet, just because I was so impressed with their Internet site. Those 50 years in exile seem to have been good ones for Count Kolnaky and family. Take a look. http://www.transylvaniancastle.com/index.html
I'm flying to Munich, where I will meet my darling daughter and start a 10-day voyage into Transylvania and back. See, she was finishing up a 9-month job/program in Austria and I thought it might be nice to visit her in Europe before she came back. Amber speaks fluent German, so what better companion to have for a visit to Vienna? Next country over is Hungary and what's next to Hungary? Transylvania!! I'm a long-time Bram Stoker fan. No, I don't watch Buffy and I don't read vampire romances or any of that stuff. I was just absolutely captivated by the travel diary that makes up the first third of Dracula. The looming snow-capped mountains, the howling wolves! The quaint little villages full of colorful Slovaks and Szgeny and Saxons and Gypsies! The paprika-chicken recipes!
Even in this day and age, Transylvania turns out to be a little bit hard to get to. We're going to be spending almost as much time on trains as in Transylvania itself. And I think I picked out the most expensive guesthouse in all of Romania on the Internet, just because I was so impressed with their Internet site. Those 50 years in exile seem to have been good ones for Count Kolnaky and family. Take a look. http://www.transylvaniancastle.com/index.html
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Date: 2005-06-02 07:48 pm (UTC)My strategy for dealing with nervous pre-flight folks is to designate something innocuous as the official "forgotten" item. What have you forgotten? Right, that. At least it seems to move them on to worrying about something else.
Enjoy your trip!