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Kelda:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on August 27, 2008, 09:10:35 am ---This kinda reminds me of that blog called "post secret"
You submit a secret on a postcard of sort, and don't sign your name, and it gets posted on the web.
http://postsecret.blogspot.com/
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really interesting!
CellarDweller:
Isn't it though?
You can reply to people's postcards too. I saw a postcard and 2 replies that made me laugh.
The postcard said:
"Nobody knows this about me, but when I go grocery shopping, I buy cans with the dents in them, because I know no one else will."
And then someone replied with:
"If I need to buy bananas, I have to buy the whole bunch, because if I break them apart, they'll miss each other."
And then someone else replied with:
"When it's Christmas, I always buy the 'Charlie Brown' trees, because I know no one else will."
:laugh:
optom3:
--- Quote from: Kelda on July 12, 2007, 05:56:38 pm ---Here they are .... 3 excerpts from my travelling diaries!
Monday 12 August 2002 - Krakow, Poland. (With my friend Laura, Euro trip after university ended)
Got up just before 9am & got ourselves organised. We went into town & booked our couchettes (yay!) to berlin for the 11hour journey. Then we checked our emails & then went to catch the 12.35 train to Auswitz. What a palva! There was no probs until about 2pm ish wehn we were due to arrive. Our carriage had 4 portuguese guys, 2 spaniards and us - all going to the same place. But all a bit uncertain of which would be the right stop. We stopped at one statrion and we were all looking out the window to see a train station name.. none. The next stop the same, untill someone notices a tiny little sign with 'Auswitz' so we all went to jump out... but only laura and a Portugues guy got out before the doors closed. ARRRGGGHH!
As it turned out, the next stop was Auswitch and was actually very well signposted. So we - the portuguese guys and me went & tried to work out if another train went past there and could pick them up. With a lot of sign language and drawings the Polish woman said not for an hour and a half; so we stopped a Polish guy to ask how a taxi driver how much a taxi to the other station would be - 25Zl, about £4 so £2 each so we did that and got laura back! I now have her mobile number safely tucked in my money belt as I had no clue what it was - and if the portuguese guys hadn't been there and they had their mates mobile no - god knows what I'd have done.
The diary continues for a long while now to explain Auswitz.. its very long so I won't type it out unless people are really interested.
7 February 2005 - New York (3 weeks in Boston, NY and washington - I travelled all on my own.. my mother worried!)
The chinatown bus arrived early into NY. 4 hours instead of 4.5. so 3pm. My heart was POUNDING! I got of the bus.. and it was just like China! A taxi driver obviously realised I was looking about so he beckoned at me to say he was free. Chinatown isn't on the grid system like further up so it was a bit of mystery when you get dropped off in the middle of it. Luckily I just walked onto the main street and about 5 minutes later I got the taxi and I could stop panicking!Taxi was only $10.50.. so I've been in a Yellow cab!!!! It didn't feel too differnt from home really.. part from he taxi driver is in a cab at the front like in the black cabns in Glasgow... but there is only 3 spaces like in private hires......
Santorini, Greek Islands - September 2005. (With my friend Laura again, Greek island hopping)
The trip ended with a stop in Oiaa. We got off here as this is THE place to be on the island for the sunset & the village is probably the most picturesque on the island. It didn't take us long to decide we would have had a heart attack if we walked up the steps so for 3 euro each we rode up on a donkey.. fun although the donkeys try to race each other so you can think you are going to topple over the edge!! Took lots of piccies as its such a lovely place and then we settled in a bar/restaurant with a great view of the sunset.. we had a few beers and a bruchetta and left after about 2 hours once the sun was down .. very romantic if that had been what you were there for!
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That has just given me goose bumps.I never would have thought that anyone else but me would have been to 3 such diverse places..
My best friend at school was Polish, so one summer our 2 families joined up and did a 3 week tour, including, Warsaw, Kracow and Zakopane in the mountains. I was only 12 and Auschwitz haunted me for ages.The showers and oven rooms in particular.
New york I have been to 2 times, first just me and husband and them wiyh the kids.
Santorini was where I had my honey moon with my second alcoholic husband.It is so beautiful,but was ruined for me, because it was when I really faced the fact that I had married an alcoholic.We had rented a villa.I can recall being woken one morning by a chinking sound.I stupidly thought it was my new husband bringing me a morning coffee.It was in fact him swigging gin, neat from the bottle at 7.00 am.
I am really amazed that another person has been to those 3 places.
Kelda:
--- Quote from: optom3 on August 27, 2008, 10:52:47 am ---That has just given me goose bumps.I never would have thought that anyone else but me would have been to 3 such diverse places..
My best friend at school was Polish, so one summer our 2 families joined up and did a 3 week tour, including, Warsaw, Kracow and Zakopane in the mountains. I was only 12 and Auschwitz haunted me for ages.The showers and oven rooms in particular.
New york I have been to 2 times, first just me and husband and them wiyh the kids.
Santorini was where I had my honey moon with my second alcoholic husband.It is so beautiful,but was ruined for me, because it was when I really faced the fact that I had married an alcoholic.We had rented a villa.I can recall being woken one morning by a chinking sound.I stupidly thought it was my new husband bringing me a morning coffee.It was in fact him swigging gin, neat from the bottle at 7.00 am.
I am really amazed that another person has been to those 3 places.
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There you go Fiona.. I bet we have another few destinations is common.... feel free to add your diaries!
optom3:
--- Quote from: Kelda on August 27, 2008, 10:59:30 am ---There you go Fiona.. I bet we have another few destinations is common.... feel free to add your diaries!
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I dont really keep a diary, it just struck me as an ecclectic mix.I don't know anyone else who has beeen to Auschwitz.My friend the ones we travelled with.Her mother had been a POW at auschwitz, she had the number tatoo on her arm, had lost all hearing in one ear,becaueof repeated beatings and lost all her hair through shock.
She said she was one of the lucky ones!!! Both her parents were killed.I became friendly with the girl at age 5, as we both had mothers whose parents had died in the war.The difference was my mum ended up in an orphanage not a concentration camp.
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