A Jersey Broad Abroad

11/05/2024

Amazing!

07/03/2024

I’ll never let go Jack… 🚢 💎

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11/02/2024

Fasching Vibes. 🇩🇪

11/02/2024

Happy Fasching! 🎉

26/09/2022

10/09/2022

12/08/2022

Love this!

"I'm not a tourist. I live here."

I've always been ding-dong crazy about becoming a "temporary local" in my travels — and back when I was a scruffy, backpacking young tour guide, this was my favorite t-shirt.

On the road, I become a kind of cultural chameleon. For example, brewing a pot of tea just makes no sense to me in this hemisphere. But, after a long day of sightseeing in England, “a spot of tea” just feels right. When I'm in the Czech Republic, I'll enjoy not wine but the best pilsner in Europe. Of course, when I'm in Tuscany, it’s gotta be a full-bodied glass of red wine. (“Un bicchiere di vino rosso corposo, per favore.”) And, after a long day of work here in Seattle, I never go home and think, “I could really use a nice cloudy glass of ouzo.” But when enjoying a sunset on my favorite Greek isle…that’s exactly what I crave to cap a beautiful day.

What about you? How do you become a temporary local in your travels?

08/08/2022

Saw some German Efficiency in action today:

02/07/2022

Berlin, Germany, 1985-2018

26/05/2022

German Father’s Day Today

16/05/2022

29/04/2022

Binding Radler, Lemonade and Beer 🍋 🍺

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15/04/2022

Last min Easter 🐣 Shopping in Germany before the stores close for daysssssss!

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Last Min Easter Shopping (Besides Saturday!! I got plans!!) ...

31/03/2022

Grilled Cheese with a tomato slice!

17/03/2022

It a Great Day for the Irish
Happy Saint Patricks's Day

Annie Moore from County Cork, Ireland was the first immigrant processed at Ellis Island on January 1, 1892.

The New York Times press coverage included the following:
As soon as the gangplank was run ashore, Annie tripped across it and was hurried into the big building that almost covers the entire island. By a prearranged plan she was escorted to a registry desk which was temporarily occupied by Mr. Charles M. Hendley, the former private secretary of Secretary Windom. He asked as a special favor the privilege of registering the first immigrant, and Col. Weber, the Ellis Island Immigration Commissioner granted the request.
When the little voyager had been registered Col. Weber presented her with a ten-dollar gold piece and made a short address of
congratulation and welcome. It was the first United States coin she had ever seen and the largest sum of money she had ever possessed. She says she will never part with it, but will always keep it as a pleasant memento of the occasion. She was accompanied by her two younger brothers. The trio came to join their parents, who live at 32 Monroe Street, this city.
The true identity of Annie Moore came to light in 2006. It was learned she resided on the Lower East Side and was buried in a grave in Calvary Cemetery in Queens. It was unmarked until October 11, 2008, descendants of Annie Moore unveiled a headstone at her gravesite. Descendants are unaware of the whereabouts of the “gold coin”.
Park Rangers were among the 200 attendees at the moving service honoring Annie Moore.

10/03/2022

Thank you Lidl Ireland for offering to fill a bus to the ceiling for our relief convoy preparing to depart for Eastern Europe.
Thank you Denise Harris for filling a bus with medical supplies.
Thank you Glasheen travel and Corduff travel for offering buses to help with our work here while our fleet is headed for the East.
Everyone so generous and also the massive number of drivers , amazing.

Please share this post to help raise awareness!

09/03/2022

To any former drivers or D licence drivers, here at Paddywagon we are sending a fleet of coaches over the next ten days to the Eastern front filled with supplies and plan to fill the coaches with the displaced and take them to Ireland to be housed where we are in contact with the relevant agencies. If you can help, we need drivers, please email [email protected]

02/03/2022

POTJS Note: Mayor Paul Kanitra of Point Pleasant Beach announced today that he is leaving tomorrow to go to Poland/Ukrainian border to help with the refugees. I met up with him at his home this afternoon as he got ready for his big trip overseas.

“I'm half Italian, like pretty much everybody in New Jersey, but the other half is Slovakian and Polish, which both border Ukraine. I've been to all three countries, Slovakia, Poland and Ukraine. I think the proximity of those countries to Ukraine and to Russia right now has really just been weighing on me more and more every day as this war has gone on. I think the whole world has been inspired by President Zelensky in Ukraine, and how tough these Ukrainian men and women are. But now you see this 40-mile column, like a column of evil, going through Ukraine, and it just had me getting very emotional.

“I watched the news last night about the borders and the refugees coming across, and I was sitting there and I said, I gotta do something. And I looked at my schedule, and it was just packed the next couple of weeks. But I just I couldn't fall asleep last night and at 2:30 in the morning I pulled the trigger and said I'll make it work. I've identified a couple organizations that are on the ground helping, like World Central Kitchen, which is run by a celebrity chef from DC, Jose Andres, and he's there on the border. And then there's the Global Empowerment Mission, which is on the ground there as well. I just want to make sure that whatever I do, that I can make a difference.

“A lot of these families are getting broken up because the men who are fighting age are staying behind to fight, and it’s all the women and children and elderly that are the refugees, and they need help. I rented a van so I can help get supplies to people when I’m over there, and I can also help work a soup line. I will probably have five or six days on the ground there. By the time I get my bearings and figure out where the area of most need is, I feel I will be able to put in some good hours and make a difference.

“The Russians just started using thermobaric weapons, and are using cluster bombs and things like that. It seems like Putin is really getting frustrated by his lack of success. He’s going to start taking more extreme measures, which means there will be even more refugees. I can only imagine what it's going to be like in a couple of days. I figured well, now's the time to go, so I’m going.”

27/02/2022

You have been warned!

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So glad I was warned! 🚫 🇩🇪

14/02/2022

Happy Valentines Day! 🥰❤️❤️❤️❤️

Valentine's Day 2022 (MILAN, ITALY) ❤️❤️

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12/02/2022

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07/02/2022

What’s the craziest candy I’ve seen in Germany?
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04/02/2022

🇸🇪 🚢

The Swedish warship Vasa. It sank in 1628 less than a mile into its maiden voyage and was recovered from the sea floor after 333 years almost completely intact. Now housed at the Vasa Museum in Stockholm.