Europe on $5 a Day - stories?

Momofadult
Wed, 06 Jan 2016 20:21:49 +0000

As a mom, I find the recollections of poste restante mail collection touching. In my time, I was bound and determined to be totally independent from my parents and left an itinerary only under threat. As far as I was concerned, I was incommunicado for the duration - I’ll be too busy to contact you and you don’t contact me with all your instructions/warnings/snooping. Imagine my horror on checking into one of the few reserved-in-advance hotels to be given letters not only from my mother, but also my GRANDMOTHER.

Times and people change - my offspring and I enjoy Skype chats multiple times a week and love sharing travel adventure stories. Thank goodness they didn’t take after me; I almost feel guilty for treating my parents as non-entities.

I was hiking in Hong Kong last August and went right past a youth hostel that looked like it could have been found in Wales. Nostalgic, but they would certainly have had no takers in me!