After the Luncheon, by Renoir. Source: Wikimedia Commons Arriving in Ruse, Bulgaria: I’ve forgotten what makes Ruse especially famous, but I won’t soon forget being welcomed to Bulgaria by a smiling woman offering each of us a shot of local brandy! Tossed it back like a character in an old-time Hollywood Western, grateful for theContinueContinue reading “Lyndie’s Journal, Part 11: Bulgaria”
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Lyndie’s Journal, Part 10: From Serbia to Bulgaria
Source: L. Wingerson After breakfast with my Montana friends we were joined by a middle-aged couple from Wisconsin, not far from Green Bay, where my Sauber forebears on my mother’s side settled after they emigrated from Germany. I boasted a bit about distant kinsman Charlie Sauber, (in 1920) Green Bay Packers Hall of Fame. TheContinueContinue reading “Lyndie’s Journal, Part 10: From Serbia to Bulgaria”
1. Where I Imagine What Might Have Been
Although this is about Lyndie’s journey, in a sense it starts with me, so that is where we will begin. My husband and I had planned something very special for our 50th anniversary: A Viking River Cruise along the Danube from Budapest to Bucharest, traveling through Hungary, Croatia, Serbia, Bulgaria, and Romania – a regionContinueContinue reading “1. Where I Imagine What Might Have Been”
Lyndie's Journey 