Travel Plans

Where are you the first part of June???  Ed and I will be travelling on a Travel Dynamics trip from June 1-10, a voyage from Citavecchia (near Rome) to Barcelona.  The sublime Mediterranean.  I’m invited me to be a guest speaker on this trip aboard the Corinthian II. See  www.TravelDynamicsInternational.com for the itinerary. I will be speaking on the literature and cuisine of Sicily, the literary history of the Italian Riviera, and on the wine and cuisine of the Mediterranean area.  The Corinthian II is a smallish boat, able to navigate smaller ports–totally skipping the generic experience of one of those huge cruise ships that remind me of floating Clorox bottles.  I have been on small ships before, also on the big ones, and the experience is not comparable at all.  On such a ship as the Corinthian II, people are like-minded so that friendships you make are easy and fun. We stop in Naples, Palermo, Lerici, Nice, Marseille, ending in Barcelona. I’ve never been to Marseille. From the writings of MFK Fisher, I’m so looking forward to exploring that raucous, rapidly changing port town.  There is such an abundance of riches on this trip—join us!!!

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