Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Now it is 7 weeks to go........

A friend asked me, "What are you going to do when you get there?" And I know that lots of people wonder what I'll do because I will be travelling solo most of the time....
"I'll go to the grocery store and check out my new digs and who knows what else I might do to get oriented!" I replied. Or maybe I'll go to the beach or meet my new neighbors or_________! Well, I will let you know! I will be doing the kinds of things that you usually do when you first go on vacation-unpack, explore, etc. Once I am settled in, I will be reading guidebooks and planning my daily excursions. And now that I have learned about couch surfing, I will see if there are any folks I might meet up with!
About my "friends" at Ryanair....It turns out that while the confirmation codes are seven digits, I only needed to use the first six digits to access my flights on their websites. So while I was getting very frustrated, because I had paid for these flights and couldn't pull them up, I finally figured it out!
Perhaps I mentioned that I had signed up for Spanish and Italian at the Newton Adult Ed. I dropped out of "Italian for Travellers", because all the teacher did was go over Italian menus and tell the class of 4(then 3) about how to get from the Rome Airport into the city. Spanish has been more productive, and, in fact, I'm going to take soem private lessons from the teacher Soledad Phelan, since we don't get to the past or future tenses.
Seven weeks from today I'll be off to St. John's, or as Peter(and thousand of others) call it, "down home"! There are a few details still to be pulled together, but they will all come together! I've just finalized my reental cars. AutoEurope based in Portland, ME, seems to have the best prices and matches AAA, AARP, etc. prices.
Ciao!

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