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Monthly Archives: October 2017

Southwest Romania and Hungary

October 27, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

October 6, 2017.??? I awoke in the strange partly built suburb of Szeged, trying to be as quiet as possible.  I didn’t want to wake someone’s dog or the ire […]

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Spending Time in Zebegeny – 2017

October 25, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

October 3. I didn’t want to leave but had another dental appointment in Budapest the next day, so around 10:30am I bid Paul and Stasia farewell and headed to Babiogorski […]

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Visiting Relatives in Wadowice

October 25, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

Sept 28 – I awoke and went to the Kismaros library to use the internet. I’d planned on driving to Poland but wanted to work on my blog for a […]

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From Brussels to Budapest – 2017

October 25, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

Sept 25, 2017 – I awoke and headed to Brussels, parking near the central park aptly titled Parc de Brussels. After a brief stroll through the greenery, I headed past […]

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Amsterdam, then on to southern Netherlands

October 23, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

September 19.  After Harlingen, I headed to Amsterdam.  It was dark, and I was shocked at the sheer number of people on the streets.  On bikes, on foot, on skateboards.  […]

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Friesland

October 23, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

September 18.  I decided to finish the editing of Roel’s presentation of his months-long pilgrimage from Eibergen to Santiago de Compostella before heading north.  I bid my friends goodbye around […]

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Eastern Holland

October 23, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

September 14. I woke in my comfy attic room complete with skylight and basked in the rain hitting the windows. Today was errand day. Coosje needed to pick up her […]

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The Middle Rhine Valley, UNESCO World Heritage Site

October 9, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

Sept 10.  I was awoken by the sound of cyclists.  Apparently the forest where I’d camped was on the main cycle path up the mountain leaving the Rhine.  I drove […]

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Heidelberg

October 7, 2017by Lisa Karpinski Leave a comment

Sept 7 – I was still in a rush to get to Eibergen, Netherlands, and wanted to see Strassbourg, the section of the Rhine north of Bingen, Bonn, Cologne, and […]

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Lisa Karpinski

Lisa Karpinski

Lisa Karpinski

I love wild nature, art, culture, and learning. I spent years in the environmental field and later worked at Apple and Intel doing technical writing. I come to the world as a naturalist, explorer, and interpreter of customs.

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