Back home at last, to a big pile of mail and packages, a DVR full of goodness (or at least entertainingness), my own large and comfy bed, and some very happy dogs and cats
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I saw that on TV not too long ago. I've never been a huge fan of doughnuts, but novelty things - YES! I'd have had one with bacon on it I think.
I am tempted to leave clothing and supplies with my friend R_ (who is the only person I frequently fly to visit) and carry on just a purse and a book or something. My carry on I had been using since I was 16 was suddenly too big by my local airports standards (it got jammed stuck into the measuring thing they had there). I bought a smaller one but I've decided that it is too small to be an only-bag. I've always had trouble pulling stuff out of those bins anyway since lately they have all been full and I've had to put it ten rows behind me. Arg. So yeah, I am seriously thinking of just leaving clothing there. It would be much simpler and she lives in a sunny state so I wouldn't have to worry about seasons.
I'm not big on doughnuts (except for cider doughnuts during the apple harvest), but these were really interesting. My stepfather got that huge apple fritter you probably saw on TV. Enough apple fritter to feed an army!
The carryon situation is the worst I have ever seen. I do not envy the flight attendants for having to deal with the insanity.
H and I had a laptop bag each, plus I had my handbag, but there were people trying to shove the most incredibly huge things into the overhead compartments, failing, and having to gate-check. It seems crazy to allow them to get that far with their gigantobags in the first place.
Hitler's Home Front: The Nazis in the German Countryside by Jill Stephenson Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945 by Earl R. Beck In the Shadow of the Swastika: Life in Germany Under the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Matthew S. Seligmann The German Home Front, 1939-1945 by Terry Charman In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich by Bernt Engelmann When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany by Christabel Bielenberg
Where are you planning to go in Italy?
My sister insists we have to go to Rome. After that, I'm not sure. All we really know at the moment is that we're going. My maternal grandmother's family was from Milan, so that's a possibility.
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I saw that on TV not too long ago. I've never been a huge fan of doughnuts, but novelty things - YES! I'd have had one with bacon on it I think.
I am tempted to leave clothing and supplies with my friend R_ (who is the only person I frequently fly to visit) and carry on just a purse and a book or something. My carry on I had been using since I was 16 was suddenly too big by my local airports standards (it got jammed stuck into the measuring thing they had there). I bought a smaller one but I've decided that it is too small to be an only-bag. I've always had trouble pulling stuff out of those bins anyway since lately they have all been full and I've had to put it ten rows behind me. Arg. So yeah, I am seriously thinking of just leaving clothing there. It would be much simpler and she lives in a sunny state so I wouldn't have to worry about seasons.
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The carryon situation is the worst I have ever seen. I do not envy the flight attendants for having to deal with the insanity.
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Under the Bombs: The German Home Front, 1942-1945 by Earl R. Beck
In the Shadow of the Swastika: Life in Germany Under the Nazis, 1933-1945 by Matthew S. Seligmann
The German Home Front, 1939-1945 by Terry Charman
In Hitler's Germany: Everyday Life in the Third Reich by Bernt Engelmann
When I Was a German, 1934-1945: An Englishwoman in Nazi Germany by Christabel Bielenberg
Where are you planning to go in Italy?
My sister insists we have to go to Rome. After that, I'm not sure. All we really know at the moment is that we're going. My maternal grandmother's family was from Milan, so that's a possibility.
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