Thursday, December 29

A colleague at work today spoke at lunch about summers growing up with parents who were both school teachers and so the whole family would go to Europe for three months, backpacking their way around.  They did this every other summer four different times.  He said he has as a result been to very European country.  They ate by buying food from grocery stores and stayed at youth hostels, but felt they really became part of the fabric of the countries.