{"id":178,"date":"2005-08-07T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=178"},"modified":"2005-08-07T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-07T11:15:00","slug":"ten-years-ago-today-from-austria-to-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2005\/08\/07\/ten-years-ago-today-from-austria-to-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten years ago today – from Austria to Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"

As I transcribe and re-read this article, I wonder what ever inspired me to be a writer. It wasn’t a varied selection of adjectives, that’s for sure. I never realized until transcribing this journal how many times I’ve used the word “beautiful”. But for the sake of authenticity, I’m reprinting this verbatim, in all my 26-year-old glory.<\/p>\n

10:00 am, 7 August 1995<\/em><\/div>\n
One hour south of Salzburg, Austria<\/em><\/div>\n
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The mountains – be still my heart, the mountains are so spectacular! Tiny Alpine villiages set in emerald green plains, the unbelievably turquoise Salzach River, and everywhere the towering, majestic mountains.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Yesterday continued to be a good day. I took a city tour, but was the only person who bought a ticket, so it was a completely private and personal tour and the tourguide was a girl about my age. The entire tourism industry in Salzburg is based on two things – The Sound of Music, and Mozart. It was the “Sound of Music” this and “Sound of Music” that and “Mozart” this and “Mozart” that. I loved it! What a wonderful, wonderful place Salzburg is.<\/em><\/div>\n
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Back at the hostel, I got to do laundry — a HUGE deal!! While doing laundry, I met an absolutely beautiful guy from Australia. Going upstairs, I was stopped by a fellow Canadian named Mike from Belleville. So Mike and Greg the Australian and I had dinner together. Imagine my delight when The Tragically Hip came on from the local radio station! We were joined by Gary (Aussie), Stell (US – Washington) and Linda (Aussie). We were all solo travelers, and sat around from dinner time til after midnight sharing travel and home stories. I feel so much better about traveling through Italy now, and I have a bunch of new friends.<\/em><\/div>\n

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As I transcribe and re-read this article, I wonder what ever inspired me to be a writer. It wasn’t a varied selection of adjectives, that’s for sure. I never realized until transcribing this journal how many times I’ve used the word “beautiful”. But for the sake of authenticity, I’m reprinting this verbatim, in all my … Continue reading “Ten years ago today – from Austria to Italy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}