{"id":199,"date":"2018-11-28T20:13:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T20:13:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?p=199"},"modified":"2018-12-04T16:38:37","modified_gmt":"2018-12-04T16:38:37","slug":"my-most-memorable-travel-moments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?p=199","title":{"rendered":"My Most Memorable Travel Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">The best moment of any trip, for me, is when I first step foot off the train (or boat, or plane, or bus, or tuk-tuk, or horse, or\u2026). The whole of the trip is in front me, ripe with possibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-gallery alignwide columns-3 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"767\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920-1024x767.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"208\" data-link=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?attachment_id=208\" class=\"wp-image-208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920-1568x1175.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-1732664_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"681\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920-1024x681.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"202\" data-link=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?attachment_id=202\" class=\"wp-image-202\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920-768x510.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920-1568x1042.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/train-2593687_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"206\" data-link=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?attachment_id=206\" class=\"wp-image-206\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/metro-3805280_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tunnel-400917_1280-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"204\" data-link=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?attachment_id=204\" class=\"wp-image-204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tunnel-400917_1280-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tunnel-400917_1280-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tunnel-400917_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/tunnel-400917_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><li class=\"blocks-gallery-item\"><figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-id=\"207\" data-link=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/?attachment_id=207\" class=\"wp-image-207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-1817478_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Now Leontes\u2019 eyes were at last opened to his folly. His Queen was dead, and the little daughter who might have been a comfort to him he had sent away to be the prey of wolves and kites. Life had nothing left for him now. He gave himself up to his grief, and passed in any sad years in prayer and remorse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote alignright\"><blockquote><p>The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The baby Princess was left on the seacoast of Bohemia, the very kingdom where Polixenes reigned. Paulina\u2019s husband never went home to tell Leontes where he had left the baby; for as he was going back to the ship, he met a bear and was torn to pieces. So there was an end of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the poor deserted little baby was found by a shepherd. She was richly dressed, and had with her some jewels, and a paper was pinned to her cloak, saying that her name was Perdita, and that she came of noble parents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had no more teaching than a shepherd\u2019s child generally has, but she inherited from her royal mother many graces and charms, so that she was quite different from the other maidens in the village where she lived.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim has-left-content alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/lisbon-996524_1920.jpg)\"><p class=\"wp-block-cover-text\">The day I no longer get excited to return is the day it\u2019s time to find a new home.<\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"mce_11\">Reaching the destination<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-218\" srcset=\"https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920-1568x1045.jpg 1568w, https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/airport-1807612_1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One day Prince Florizel, the son of the good King of Bohemia, was bunting near the shepherd\u2019s house and saw Perdita, now grown up to a charming woman. He made friends with the shepherd, not telling him that he was the Prince, but saying that his name was Doricles, and that he was a private gentleman; and then, being deeply in love with the pretty Perdita, he came almost daily to see her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-instagram alignright wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-instagram\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BZ_0IIWDv6b\/\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The King could not understand what it was that took his son nearly every day from home; so he set people to watch him, and then found out that the heir of the King of Bohemia was in love with Perdita, the pretty shepherd girl. Polixenes, wishing to see whether this was true, disguised himself, and went with the faithful Camillo, in disguise too, to the old shepherd\u2019s house. They arrived at the feast of sheep-shearing, and, though strangers, they were made very welcome. There was dancing going on, and a peddler was selling ribbons and laces and gloves, which the young men bought for their sweethearts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Florizel and Perdita, however, were taking no part in this gay scene, but sat quietly together talking. The King noticed the charming manners and great beauty of Perdita, never guessing that she was the daughter of his old friend, Leontes. He said to Camillo\u2013<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is the prettiest low-born lass that ever ran on the green sward. Nothing she does or seems but smacks of something greater than herself\u2013too noble for this place.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When Miranda was grown up into a maiden, sweet and fair to see, it chanced that Antonio and Alonso, with Sebastian, his brother, and Ferdinand, his son, were at sea together with old Gonzalo, and their ship came near Prospero\u2019s island. Prospero, knowing they were there, raised by his art a great storm, so that even the sailors on board gave themselves up for lost; and first among them all Prince Ferdinand leaped into the sea, and, as his father thought in his grief, was drowned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Ariel brought him safe ashore; and all the rest of the crew, although they were washed overboard, were landed unhurt in different parts of the island, and the good ship herself, which they all thought had been wrecked, lay at anchor in the harbor whither Ariel had brought her. Such wonders could Prospero and his spirits perform.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim-90 has-secondary-background-color has-background-dim has-left-content alignfull is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\" style=\"background-image:url(https:\/\/2019.wordpress.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/architecture-2560640_1920.jpg)\"><p class=\"wp-block-cover-text\">The day I no longer get excited to return is the day it\u2019s time to find a new home.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best moment of any trip, for me, is when I first step foot off the train (or boat, or plane, or bus, or tuk-tuk, or horse, or\u2026). The whole of the trip is in front me, ripe with possibility. Now Leontes\u2019 eyes were at last opened to his folly. 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