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Minus the Journey: A Journal through Europe-a Redemption in Serbia
Paperback
Biographies GeneralHumorEastern Europe
Publisher Price: $21.95
ISBN13: 9780578329635
Publisher: Amms Publishing
Published: Dec 17 2021
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.92
Height: 0.64 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In the fall of 1993, Author Michael N. Sever embarked on a 2-month mission to honor his late father. During that time, he experienced the whole gamut of Europe, from artistic to atrocious. However, most of his experiences were light-hearted as he relates them through self-deprecating humor and sometimes obscure cultural references. Mr. Sever's story demonstrates the self-reliance and resourcefulness that innately define many aging Gen-Xers. This humor and those traits enabled the author to see his goal to the end.
Some examples of his travails in France:
I was stuck.
Lost forever in France.
I would buy a beret and a loaf of long bread. I would wear black clothes and smoke clove cigarettes. Existentialism would become my mistress. The Selecty Home Pension would fade from my memory.
In Austria:
It was a horrible walk with a heavy-almost painfully heavy pack-yoked to my bent and near broken back. At a few points I caught myself talking to myself, alternating from encouragement to scolding.
I felt my face contorting into scowls.
I had gone mad in Vienna. I would be placed in the sanitorium that housed Dr. Caligari. I would befriend a somnambulist who lived in a cabinet. My world would consist of odd-angled doors and hallways.
Just as I was about to give up and wait for the men in white suits, I saw civilization. I saw a woman walking and grunted, Hotels?
She told me, in broken English, that I could find them in the ring, and she pointed me the way.
In my near-animal devolution, I offered her no thanks; I just snorted and knuckle-walked down the strasse.
But never forgetting the beauty:
I did that all the way to Piazza San Marcos. From there, I walked and walked and walked. I walked down large tourist filled avenues, down small desolate side paths-I took in the city. I saw laundry hanging out of medieval windows, and I saw flood-scarred buildings. I walked over odd canals and tiny bridges. I saw red and white poles measuring the depth of the water, and gondolas and scows racing about the lagoon.
I finally got it. This was what it meant to be lost in Venice. Not when you had to use the bathroom, but when you wanted to feel the city-to experience every last nook and dead end.
It was beautiful to not be in a rush.
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