North with the Spring: An American Family Travels in Europe

By Phaedra Greenwood

What could be more fun than traveling with your family in Europe for five months? Not that it was all fun. There were cold, dreary days, illness, missed connections, a stolen wallet, gypsy attacks, and lost children. But looking back, the Splat family as they called themselves when they went Splat! agreed that there were definitely more highs than lows. Imagine a three-ring circus in Sicily with ten ferocious lions; spring skiing in the luminous Alps; a day spent absorbing the divine inspiration of Chartres Cathedral; or a sunny picnic on the banks of Loch Ness, waiting for Nessie to appear. North With the Spring is drawn from a family journal kept by Mom and DadJim and Phaedraand their son and daughter, Brian, age thirteen, and Sara, age ten. Its a lively, descriptive and candid story of their adventures and misadventures as they fly from New York to Madrid in January, take a train to Genoa, and then a ferry to Palermo. The plan is to hang in Sicily for a month or two, then wander north with the spring, enjoying the delights of primavera over and over as they explore Italy, Interlaken, then Paris, London and parts of Scotland.Its a growing experience. The fights they have, the odd and interesting situations they encounter, their interactions with the natives and the things they learn about the world and themselvesall of these draw the Splats closer as a family.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432745638
• ISBN13: 9781432745639
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"