Write Us c/o Poste Restante

Write Us c/o Poste Restante narrates the travels of the author and her husband as they spend eight months of backpacking in Europe directed only by the whim of the moment or the next train leaving the station: a cultural immersion that reassesses materialistic values and prejudices. This retro memoir chronicles a journey of human interaction not possible to anticipate: cooking paella in a Valencian resort kitchen, dancing the sardine in Barcelona and the sirtaki in Greece. Comedy and drama present themselves when least expected: the drug search in Spain; the assault in Casablanca.Their four-month hiatus in Greece is rudely interrupted when the financial market crisis in July 1973 wrecks their budget and sends the travelers north to Germany before returning to the the lives they had abandoned.