January 19th and 20th We shuffle quickly across a busy road with our bags and packs and pick our way through street stands, parked cars and sidewalk restaurants to the Lomprayah bus/ferry office two blocks down a narrow crowded street. We hope there are still seats left for the 9:30pm bus and ferry ride to […]
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East to Bangkok
January 14 – 19 We arrived in Bangkok a bit bleary-eyed. The flight was 9 hours overnight. Emma got the best sleep as she made a little nest on my lap and conked out for 6 hours. Bjorn was so excited by the fact that he had an in-seat movie viewer that he watched three […]
Christmas in Bulgaria
December 18 – 25 Crossing the Border in Santa Hats The Bulgarian border crossing guards looked into our train compartment and immediately started laughing and speaking to us in Bulgarian. Emma, Bjorn and I wore the santa hats that I bought at the Euro store in Athens. The guards obviously thought this was quite amusing […]
Strike in Athens
December 13- 17 The story of our stay in Athens is the story of strikes. The transportation workers were on strike most of the week which meant that with a few exceptions, we had to walk everywhere we went. It was a good way to get some exercise. However, we walked from our apartment to […]
Thanksgiving on the Red Sea
November 25 Our day was quite unlike any other Thanksgiving Day. We woke early and after a breakfast of french toast, we put on our swim suits and walked a half hour down the beach to the Bedouin Divers. We realized this would be a different dive experience because instead of putting our gear on […]
Cruising the Nile
I dubbed our cruise “The Mystery Cruise”. Everything was a mystery: the price, the schedule and the conversation. From the moment we arrived to the moment we left, we never quite knew what was happening. Most of our confusion arose from the fact that all the other passengers were Russian and on a package tour. […]
Riding with Sheep and Hiking with Apes in the Atlas Mountains
October 19 – 23 The day after skiing the dunes we hopped onto a bus to travel to the Atlas Mountains. We saw some women hanging out with some sheep by the baggage compartment. We wondered if the sheep were riding with us. Sure enough, just before departure, they loaded the sheep into the luggage […]
Skiing the Dunes
October 18 It felt very odd to walk along with skis on my shoulder and ski boots in my hand while wearing shorts and a t-shirt, but that’s what I did last week when our family skied the dunes in Merzouga. The day before we left, after the kids finished their schoolwork, I inspected the […]
A New Continent
Morocco, October 3- 8 We stopped on a busy street on the edge of a pedestrian walkway teeming with people. “Just walk up here,” said the taxi driver gesturing vaguely down the street. “Your hotel is not far.” We gathered our bags and set off in what we hoped was the direction of the main […]
Saltzburg, September 11-14
At the end of the opening scene in the movie Sound of Music, Maria hears church bells that remind her she is late for mass. Those bells still ring all over Salzburg. We were delighted to find that our hotel was right across the street from a beautiful old church whose bells rang very hour…..and […]
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