The Adventures of Lynne

Dr. Foster went to Gloucester In a shower of rain He stepped in a puddle Right up to his middle And never went there again! I came here to Gloucester last night. I am off to Hereford to a Vipassana meditation course--if you're interested you can look up what I'm doing here Feb. 26 to March 8: https://uk.dhamma.org/courses/10-day-courses/ https://www.dhamma.org/en/schedules/schdipa No contact with me for 10 days!

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I didn't know that Krakow is so beautiful and romantic. But it is! When I arrived yesterday afternoon and I got myself settled into my hostel (called Submarine) I walked around the "Old Town" which was so pretty. There are beautiful old buildings, a clock tower, several churches (it is Poland), a market, horses and carriages and lovely outdoor restaurant spaces. So many people were out on a late Friday afternoon and evening. I noticed that all the men I saw were nicely dressed and well-groomed, making me believe that all Polish men are handsome. But they could have been tourists..... Here's a traditional Polish supper I had--beetroot soup and perogies--pictured for Donna: At 7:30, I went to a wonderful Chopin piano concert in an upstairs room in one of the old buildings in the Old Town (beside a jazz room and a karaoke bar!) where I met Maria from London, England and we went in together. The room had several pieces of art featuring Chopin. We were...

I went to and from Mariehamn aboard the Silja Symphony (sorry the picture is so dark). It was full of "moving cargo", (Captain Piotr's least favourite kind of cargo!), and after dropping some of us off in Mariehamn it headed to Sweden. It was a very glamorous ship with shops and restaurants and entertainment. Mariehamn and Godby are on the Aland islands in the middle of the Baltic Sea. Although Aland is a Finnish territory, everyone speaks Swedish and it is Swedish culture there. I loved the red soil. All the roads were pink like PEI. Very pretty. Mariehamn and Godby, both very pretty towns I arrived in Mariehamn on Sunday morning at 4:15. I walked into the deserted town and when I got cold (about 7am) I found a 24 hour Shell station where I went in and had coffee and warmed up. I went in again later for a warmup and then found a coffee shop open at 10. I went to the library at noon and stayed there until my bus left at 1:55 for Godby. In Godby, I stayed at a very...