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mabell
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I am taking a real life #WhimsicalTour ! ❤️ Day 1 - Roma!

Tanisha_A Beautiful! 6y
Avanders 😍😍 6y
Reviewsbylola Omg! Enjoy! 6y
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LeahBergen Lucky you!😍😍😍 6y
sprainedbrain Gorgeous! 😍 6y
mabell @Tanisha_A @Avanders @Reviewsbylola @LeahBergen @sprainedbrain Thank you! It is amazing to see it all in person! 😊❤️ 6y
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mabell
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After 3 months traipsing through Europe, Bella and I are saying so long! (Just ignore the snoring, we're pooped!)

Thank you so much for hosting the #BackpackEurope adventure @JenP and @BookwormM ! It's been lots of fun!

#WhimsicalTour ... the end. ❤️

Crazeedi ❤❤❤❤ 6y
LeahBergen She‘s exhausted! 😂😂 6y
BookwormM Thanks for joining in 😃👍 6y
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erzascarletbookgasm 😂 💜 🐶 Enjoyed seeing your #backpackeurope posts with great book recs and collages. 🙂 6y
batsy She definitely wore herself out checking out the sights 😂❤️ 6y
mabell @Crazeedi @LeahBergen @batsy She can pass out with the best of them! 😂😂❤️🐶 6y
mabell Thank you so much @erzascarletbookgasm ! ❤️❤️❤️I had such a good time, and I discovered many gems I would never have sought out, so it was definitely a successful "trip!" ? 6y
mabell @BookwormM We'll rest up for next year! 😅😂 6y
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Summer at Tiffany | Marjorie Hart
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Magical! The best word to describe this story of two University of Iowa girls living and working in NY in the summer of 1945.

It was full of moments big and small - the first women to work on the floor of Tiffany, the WWII Pacific surrender, eating at the Automat (oh, how I wish I could have eaten there!), going on dates with midshipmen, seeing the ocean for the first time... Every minute was wonderful, I loved it!

Now on to home!

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Summer at Tiffany | Marjorie Hart
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After my thoroughly enjoyable #BackpackEurope excursion, I flew back to the U.S. of A. for one last stop before heading home - spending a little time in NYC.

What better way to close out my summer trip than hearing Marjorie Hart retell the story of her amazing summer in that fabulous city in 1945. 😍❤️

#WhimsicalTour

Gissy That was a long but amazing vacation! Now you will need two weeks to rest☺️ 6y
mabell @Gissy At *least* two weeks! 😂 But it was terrific! 6y
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Panpan

I had looked forward to capping off my #WhimsicalTour by enjoying the fantastical adventures of Baron Munchausen. I love the absurd!

However, I found these tales to be rather unpalatable. Just about every story involved animal mutilation or grotesque injury (generally to someone other than the Baron.) The absurdity quickly became monotonous, and any humor was far outweighed by the repulsive harm inflicted.

On the positive side ⬇️

mabell this step in my journey had the fortunate side effect of relieving me of any hesitancy in bidding Europe adieu, or auf wiedersehen, and returning home!

#BackpackEurope
6y
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Airs Above the Ground | Mary Stewart
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It turns out the adventure was much more than looking for Vanessa's husband and following the circus...
A shadowy agency (I.e. spies!) prevents me from expanding on the details, but it was thrilling! Zooming in a Mercedes through mountain roads, climbing in a rack railway, being chased over a chateau roof. 😳

Great company, exciting adventures, and quite a few surprises along the way!
#BackpackEurope #WhimsicalTour

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Airs Above the Ground | Mary Stewart
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Imagine finding out from a garrulous friend that your husband of 2 years just appeared on a newsreel from Vienna, meaning he is not in Stockholm, as he said. What to do? Take action! Jump on the chance to chaperone the friend's son to Vienna!

What do I do? Join in the adventure! Vanessa and I intend to find out what exactly is going on...

#BackpackEurope #WhimsicalTour

Gissy Sounds interesting, what really happened?🤔 6y
mabell @Gissy Exactly! 😳 This is my first Mary Stewart, but her books all sound thrilling! 6y
Gissy It is already in my wish list!😃 6y
mabell @Gissy Oh good! I'm really enjoying it so far! A fun setting, great characters and conversations. 😄 6y
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Saturnin | Jirotka, Zden?k
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Pickpick

Having met him for myself, I found Saturnin wasn't a doppelgänger for Jeeves. Saturnin certainly didn't have the "perfect servant" veneer, but like Jeeves, he could somehow always right the world. Saturnin's methods were just slightly more devious, and often seemed to make the situation actually *worse* before we discover how well things turn out. I leave my host happy and much better off than when I met him. In fact, he was on his way to a date⬇️

mabell at the National Theatre as we speak! Meanwhile, I'm on my way to see the Spanish Riding School horses in Vienna. 🐴 #BackpackEurope #WhimsicalTour 6y
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Saturnin | Jirotka, Zden?k
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Well, I'm no longer lost! It turns out I was just reading the map upside down! 😆

Reading the map right side up, I found my way to my host's home, but upon arrival, I was informed that Saturnin had procured a houseboat as a new residence, so I would instead find the gentleman and his butler on the Vltava river.

On my way there, I stopped in the National Technical Museum (between the electrical and vehicular issues we face in this tale ... ⬇️

mabell ... thought I might pick up some useful knowledge.). While there, I saw the astronomical exhibit and learned more about the great work of Brahe and Kepler. Genius and mysterious! (Unfortunately, they did not have Tycho's nose to display.) Now on to the river! #BackpackEurope #WhimsicalTour 6y
KristinaRay I‘m glad you found your way! 6y
mabell @KristinaRay Oh thank you! Slight delay. 😂 6y
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Saturnin | Jirotka, Zden?k
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I've been in the Czech Republic for a week, but I find I am completely lost in Prague! I was due at my host's home yesterday to meet his new valet, Saturnin, but I don't know where I am, and I don't know when I will figure out where I am! 😭😭

(Which is to say my book was due yesterday, and I've only just been able to start it, so my misadventure may get costly)

#BackpackEurope #WhimsicalTour

riversong153 Awwww...I hope you find your way!! 6y
mabell @riversong153 Thank you! It's been difficult to find the minutes for everything I need to do/want to do lately, and it's having a deleterious effect on my "traveling." ? 6y
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