How many of these gestures do you know?
http://www.cnn.com/2015/05/29/travel/experts-guide-to-italian-hand-gestures/index.html
To my dear friends with Italian ancestry (or anyone, for that matter):
Are any of these Italian hand gestures familiar to you? Second-nature? Instinctive? American? Universal? I’m curious. What do you think? Anyone?
Top: Temper tantrum tried to avoid long customs lines arriving in Italy from Greece. Result: abject failure. Cost this guy 4 extra hours!
Bottom: Temper tantrum exercised in a Madrid luxury car dealer-ship. Result: they fixed his car immediately! Saved at least a day!
Italian Riviera, 1964
by Michael Brein
(Reproduced from the Audible audiobook version of
Travel Tales of Michael Brein: My Best 100!
Written by Michael Brein; narrated by Gary Roelofs.)
Travel Tales: the Best of the Best
My new Travel Tales Monthly issue No. 10 for April 2015, a monthly book-of-the-month bookazine, is now available in my eStore. Go to www.michaelbrein.com for more information and to purchase or subscribe.
Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 10 for April 2015 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in interviews with nearly 1,750 world travelers and adventurers during his four decades of travel to more than 125 countries throughout the world.
Tired of being your old mundane, boring self?
The Three R(E)’s of Travel and then Some!
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Why be your old mundane, everyday boring, bored, tired self in your travels and adventures? Just kidding—sort of! You get what I mean.
That is, travel is supposed to be a way to RE-invigorate, RE-juvinate, RE-fresh, RE-set, and RE-invent ourselves, isn’t it?
When you go away on a vacation or adventure you all would like to be and do more than just the typical ordinary things according to your typical ordinary ways, and so on, wouldn’t you?
I mean, travel is a means to becoming a RE-newed person—more of the person we would like ourselves to be, don’t you think?
Sightseeing by Public Transportation
My London and Paris travel guides are the only ones you’ll need for your visits to these cities. I show you exactly how to go to the top 50 visitor attractions easily, quickly, and comfortably by the Underground in London and by the Metro in Paris.
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FIRST FRIDAY!
Why not pause for a moment and maybe reflect a bit on your ‘own’ first Friday. I just had a birthday, so I’m reflecting on my life. Here are my three ‘firsts’ in my life—though of dubious distinction they may be: