Végre! Finally!

Good morning! Even though the Omicron variant is still 'hovering' over the continent, and the horrific Russian invasion is still on-going 'next door,' I can finally! say, "Enough already, let's travel!" As such, I will begin posting here on my blog over the next weeks (and perhaps, months) as I meet up with friends and you can read about our 'progress' here…over the next two weeks, we'll be exploring Trieste and Ljubljana and hiking in the spectacular Julian alps.

So, yesterday, I had a video-call with friend, Patty, living in the Marigny of N'Awlins, to finalize our rendezvous in Trieste…she will fly out of NOLA this Friday, the 13th…(oh, lord, that's the first time I've put the day & date together…what I find humorous is that the family here does not know about this, so-called, 'bad luck,' associated with Fri 13…I wonder when & where that got started…do you know? It's easy enough to 'Google,' I suppose)…anyway, Patty will fly to Florence, staying with friends, before taking the train to Trieste on the 20th, where I will meet her.

Meanwhile, I awoke this morning to an email from Lyle Breaux, another New Orleanian, from Uptown, whom I will spend a week with in mid-June…the last time I spoke with Lyle was a month ago, when he and his wife, Anna, were spending some down-time in Mexico…for brevities sake, I copy & paste my reply:

Lyle: this weekend will be fine to call…do you have a better time than another…I will head-out of Kaposvar either next Monday or Tuesday for Trieste, by way of Ljubljana…my friend, Patty, is making her way from Florence on the 20th, where we will stay in an Airbnb in central Trieste for 3 days (not having been to Trieste, I'm anxious to see it)…then over to Ljubljana on the 24th for a couple of days, before heading up to Lake Bled for the remainder of that week…I may have told you that Patty was intrigued by the hut-to-hut hiking in the Julian Alps, so we will use that time to 'check it out'…unfortunately, it's still early in the season, and it will be interesting to see if any of the 'lower' huts are open, for lunch, if not an over-nighter…I haven't tried making any reservations for Patty & I, not knowing how serious she is, but it occurs to me I could check the map and try to make a (pretend) reservation at a couple of those lower-lying huts to see if they will be open while we are there…this past weekend, the Giro d'Italia bike race began its 3rd leg starting here in little Kaposvár, ending in a village on Lake Balaton, so that was a thrill for the town…unfortunately, the crowds were huge, and unless you arrived in the central square early, it was impossible to get near the 'action,' just a bunch of heads in colorful helmets flashing by. We'll talk more over the weekend. Just give me a time. David

See you down the road!