CRA Newsletter June 2019

About My Travel Trips
By Chuck Murawski
To make your travels successful,
you must have a spirit of adventure. There
is so much to see, but you must get
off the normal path to see it all. Yes
it is great to walk the streets of Paris
or Barcelona or Roma, but you may
be missing the best to view and
experience. We use to throw our
When I was a kid living in NY, I
would get the latest copy of “Europe
On Five Dollars a Day,” buy a round
trip ticket on Icelandic Air for $200
plus, and off I would go for the
summer. Well those days are long
gone (as well as my youth).
So use your travel time to seek out
the places off the beaten path. Some
water, or in Taormina (a slice of
heaven) on the island of Sicily.
Luca
Our family :>)
family in the back of our van and just
take off.
It is sad to say, but so much
of “Old Europe” has been destroyed
by illegal immigration, and the stupidity
of the European Union. You now
see the same shops, products, and
way of life in each country, not to
mention the current threat of religious
terrorism. All of this has destroyed
the charming character each country
had that reflected its history. In the
old days there were strong borders
between countries which helped to
protect their different cultures.
Luca
of my favorite places to sneak off to
are in Tuscany such as Luca outside
of Florence, Luca is a walled in
Cinque Terra
Luca
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Taormina
village (We did a home exchange
and lived there for a
month) or Cinque Terra on the
Luca
Just walking around some of these
places, you stumble upon little bits of
their past that warm your heart
I am so thankful for the ten years
we lived in Europe so that we were
able to experience that Old World
Charm, and… oh how I miss it!
June 2019