Freaky Location Friday…Sao Miguel Island, Azores, Portugal

August and I visited the island of Sao Miguel while we were stationed on Terceira, one of the other islands in the archipelago.  We visited almost every place on the hyperlinked website while we were there (and have the pics to prove it…they look frighteningly familiar *g*).  Here’s how it played out… 
An American nurse flew [...]

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Freaky Location Friday … the LOOOONG ride from Rome to Germany

So in my previous post you got the gist of why Rome just wasn’t for us.  Today I’m going to talk about how we returned to Germany.
We caught a train that morning, and it was all good…got into Venice just as night was falling, and I adore Venice, so we got some grub, wandered the [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…trip to Innsbruck, Austria

We had two very interesting and diverse experiences in Innsbruck…I’ll hit them as they happened (the return trip next week)…
So we’re on our way to Venice from Germany, and pull into the Innsbruck train station in the early afternoon.  It’s a very pretty station with inlaid floors, lots of open space and floor-to-ceiling windows that [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Rome

So if you read my last post, you know that we arrived in Rome pleasantly buzzed and ready to see the sights. 
We got off the train and decided to do the same thing we had in Venice…troll the train station for hoteliers trying to get rid of the last of their rooms.  We finally settled [...]

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Freaky Location Friday–Back to Europe…Venice to Rome

Swerving abruptly back to my Euro-themed Freaky Location Friday *g*, today I wanted to talk about our trip from Venice to Rome… 
So we hopped on the train in the mid morning and sat in the very back, in one of those sets of seats that face the person in the very last row.  The couple [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Enid

So I’ve already said that I’ve adopted Oklahoma as my home state.  You might ask if this is totally insane, coming from a chickadee who was born and raised in California.  In a word…NO!  Allow me a moment to explain…
The town I grew up in(Mariposa, CA) was the kind of place where you said “howdy” [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Where the Hell is Matt?

I feel like being a lazy-ass today when it comes to posting (sorry!), but I think you’ll probly like this even more than my usual fare…check it out!  http://www.wherethehellismatt.com/
 ’Til Monday, all!

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Freaky Location Friday…Garmisch-Partenkirchen

Yes, I actually had to go here to get the spelling right *g*.  Okay, visiting Garmisch is a little backward in how our trip to Europe went (we landed at Ramstein Air Base, went to Garmisch and THEN to Venice, but since it was second on my “oh-shit, that’s cool” list, live with it!  LOL).
Anyway, [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Continuing on my Venice theme of a few weeks ago

To bring you up to date on my last Freakly Location Friday post, visit here . 

So after touring the Murano glass factory, the owner of the factory let us use his private boat to go back to the city center.  The driver, understanding that he was dealing with tourists *g*, told us we absolutely HAD [...]

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Freaky Location Friday…Venice, Italy

Freaky Location Friday 
Venice, Italy (sublocation, Murano) (http://www.vacationidea.com/venice/gallery/venice_train_station_Gallery1.html) 
I’m going international again today.  August and I did a semi-whirlwind swing (three weeks) through central Europe when we were stationed in the
Azores, so I think I’ll be writing about the cities we visited.  This trip was basically our honeymoon (even tho we’d already been married for over five [...]

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