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Thank you Travel Tuesday Sponsors

Time really flies by too fast and I am already having to say farewell to my current three co-hosts for Travel Tuesday here at A Compass Rose.  They will be nominating the next Travel Tuesday co-hosts, to be announced next week.  Until then take a look at my girls’ favourite travel related quotes and their Travel Tuesday blog posts this week! Plus let them know what you liked most about their three months with us!
sammy To the Days like This with Sammy

van Snow in Tromso with Van

kaelene Unlocking Kiki with Kaelene
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Ready to link up? As always my co-hosts KaeleneSammy, and Van are along in this travel Tuesday adventure and this link up shows up on their blog today too! Show them so love and check out what travel posts they have on store today! 

1. SHARE a post about travel! From road trips to trips abroad and from past travels to dream vacations. You can write about travel tips and tricks, favorite places to stay, or anything in between! Just make it about traveling somewhere!

2. GRAB the lovely button above. If you run into trouble, just make sure to mention Bonnie, Van, Sammy, and Kaelene in a link! 3. LINKUP goes live every Tuesday at 0800 GMT. Make sure to comment here, on the cohosts blogs, and visit around!

TIPS:

1. Please only one linked up post per blogger. Save other posts for future linkups!

2. The last Tuesday of every month will be a themed prompt if you want to join in!

3. HOP around and meet new travel loving bloggers! Check back to visit some of the newer travel posts!

 

 

 


Will Travel for Gelato

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 The last couple of days at work have reminded me of two cold hard facts.
One: I really need to keep working on my Italian.
It has become embarrassing how much I have forgotten
when trying to converse with Italian clients.

Two: I am in severe need of Gelato.

There is something so wonderful about Gelato.
First the fact that just saying Gelateria is so much fun.
Second, that gelato is so satisfying.
I just love that it is truly acceptable to have gelato a few times a day.
It comes in small servings with a cute little spoon.
You can try so many flavours that vary from gelateria to gelateria.
My favourites from growing up in Napoli, Italia were:
Tiramisu, Hazelnut, Pistachio, and Banana.

However my last trip to Italy I became partial to Yoghurt.

313236_830986819301_861474148_nWhat are your favourite gelato flavours?

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Shout out to Camila for her post the End of Africa where she proved you do not need a lengthy post to capture our hearts with wanderlust.  Have now added the tip of Africa as one of the places I must travel to and see for myself.  P.S. I love the traveling minion! Anyone else photobomb their travel photos with a traveling companion?

 

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Ready to link up? As always my co-hosts KaeleneSammy, and Van are along in this travel Tuesday adventure and this link up shows up on their blog today too! Show them so love and check out what travel posts they have on store today! 

1. SHARE a post about travel! From road trips to trips abroad and from past travels to dream vacations. You can write about travel tips and tricks, favorite places to stay, or anything in between! Just make it about traveling somewhere!

2. GRAB the lovely button above. If you run into trouble, just make sure to mention Bonnie, Van, Sammy, and Kaelene in a link! 3. LINKUP goes live every Tuesday at 0800 GMT. Make sure to comment here, on the cohosts blogs, and visit around!

TIPS: 1. Please only one linked up post per blogger. Save other posts for future linkups! 2. The last Tuesday of every month will be a themed prompt if you want to join in! 3. HOP around and meet new travel loving bloggers! Check back to visit some of the newer travel posts!



An American conversing in England

lostintranslation_mericaengland I begin this post by saying I love living in England, so take what I say lightheartedly. I still enjoy my seventy minute walk from home to work, fawning over the beautiful Bath architecture and picturesque countryside. I just remember what it was like being stateside and wish I was here and now…here I am.  It is a beautiful thing to be content and happy in life.

I remember the problems of being a ‘hidden foreigner’ in America when it came to conversations with those who had never left the US of A.  I have left those behind me and after three years in England realise I still run into a problem with the American part of me here in England. I overshare. It is not so much that I overshare in a bad way, but that I love to talk and can open up to almost anyone quite easily.  It is a quality of being a Third Culture Kid (TCK) that you can find something to relate to anyone you meet and do not feel shy to start talking to someone you do not know.  I am constantly trying to reign myself in and give people the ‘cliff notes’ version in conversations. The trouble I find is that when I feel most comfortable and let my guard down, that I share and talk the most without realising it. Continue reading

Travel Throwback: Cairns, Australia

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I have not done a Travel Throwback post in a while and wanted to start doing them again so for today that is what I decided to share for Travel Tuesday. Normally these would appear on the blog on Thursday and is my avenue for sharing beloved travel photos that have gotten forgotten about in shoeboxes of photographs or in digital storage.

This is from my Australia adventure in the summer of 2002.  I had been wanting to go to Australia for so many years and finally got the chance the summer after my freshman year at Uni.  I went with a group with my school for the inital six weeks were we spent half our time in Sydney and half in Brisbane.  I then stayed longer for additional weeks to travel alone and made my way from Sydney all the way up to Port Douglas and Cairns and then made my way back down.  It was an amazing time and I saw so much that it just made me want to return.

I of course did a lot of the cheese-y tourist-y things like get your photo taken at the museum with the aboriginal tribe members. But it was so much fun and I honestly am so glad I chose to stay for the extra three weeks of travel. Sometimes you have to just get out there and travel alone. It is quite the experience and I am glad I got to do it before I got married and had kids.  Oh yeah and I was blocking blonde hair back then.

Ready to link up? As always my co-hosts KaeleneSammy, and Van are along in this travel tuesday adventure and this link up shows up on their blog today too! Show them so love and check out what travel posts they have on store today! 

1. SHARE a post about travel! From road trips to trips abroad and from past travels to dream vacations. You can write about travel tips and tricks, favorite places to stay, or anything in between! Just make it about traveling somewhere!

2. GRAB the lovely button above. If you run into trouble, just make sure to mention Bonnie, Van, Sammy, and Kaelene in a link!
3. LINKUP goes live every Tuesday at 0800 GMT. Make sure to comment here, on the cohosts blogs, and visit around!

TIPS:
1. Please only one linked up post per blogger. Save other posts for future linkups!
2. The last Tuesday of every month will be a themed prompt if you want to join in!
3. HOP around and meet new travel loving bloggers! Check back to visit some of the newer travel posts!



Lost in Translation: Accents

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Today is our monthly themed prompt for Travel Tuesday, as it is the last Tuesday of the month, and my cohost Van chose ‘languages’.  I really did not know where to go with this one, not for not being a great prompt, but my mind was just racing in so many directions.  So many stories of not having the right words in other countries, of being lost in translation, and language mishaps.

I decided to share with you the irony of the fact that I live in a country that speaks English, as a dual citizen, and yet it makes me feel like English is not my first language.  I already had some British English words, phrases, and spellings engraved into my vocabualary from having lived here as a young girl.  I thought I might be picking up few new things here and there and letting my own American accent soften nicely back into my English accent from before.  Not quite the case. Continue reading