USA | Friday, 17 Apr 2009 | Views [416] | Comments [1]
my first full day back (day before yesterday) was horrible - I felt so discombobulated - culture shock and a little jet lag - but I had some errands I absolutely had to take care of that day so I forced myself up and out now I feel better but would ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 12 Apr 2009 | Views [529] | Comments [3]
am very happy to report that I found a good perhaps great egg cream yesterday - this is harder to do nowadays than long ago in my youth, when any corner luncheonette in the city could put together a delicious combination of syrup, milk and seltzer (like ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 10 Apr 2009 | Views [426] | Comments [3]
am back in the USA after over 2 months on the road - truthfully, I could have spent 2 MORE months travelling if I could have afforded it but now that I'm in America again, I'm actually getting antsy to get back home to SF and will probably wind up spending ... Read more >
BRAZIL | Monday, 6 Apr 2009 | Views [751]
a brand new continent - extremely exciting - got to Sao Paulo on Friday very early morning regretted almost immediately not actually trying to learn more/any Portuguese because I definitely felt out of it and helpless (on top of major jet lag and sleeplessness ... Read more >
GERMANY | Thursday, 2 Apr 2009 | Views [1342]
am now in one of the office cubicles in the first class Lufthansa lounge at Frankfurt airport struggling a bit with a german keyboard that has transposed the letters y and z which is very challenging when your name is nancy-nancz i was met at the ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Tuesday, 31 Mar 2009 | Views [1194] | Comments [2]
yesterday Rose and I had several adventures - first we went to Charlestown Harbor and visited a museum that had a lot of information about shipping clay and Cornwall history (with cool stuff about the conversion to gas cookers/ovens with a kitchen full ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Sunday, 29 Mar 2009 | Views [437] | Comments [1]
got so upset about the news about Maggie that I didn't say much about the fun times I had in London - i wound up seeing 2 exhibitions at the victoria and albert - one on hats put together by stephen jones that included a bonnet q victoria wore as a young ... Read more >
UNITED KINGDOM | Saturday, 28 Mar 2009 | Views [477] | Comments [1]
my public (aka Albert) is clammering for more entries and I admit I've been remiss - Miranda and I had so much fun driving all over Mallorca, and then I thought I'd be able to catch up from the Sala Miro VIP lounge at Palma airport, but despite a full ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 22 Mar 2009 | Views [683] | Comments [5]
angelina told us that we should really drive over to porto cristo and then down to colonia sant jordi - this meant driving to the eastern corner of the island then down southwest and then we went thru the almost exact center of mallorca to the motorway ... Read more >
SPAIN | Thursday, 19 Mar 2009 | Views [2521] | Comments [3]
Mallorca has been stunningly beautiful and perfect (20-ish celsius degrees almost every day and almost constant blue sky and sun - like those perfect days we lucky people in San Francisco get) weather hasn't hurt. Christopher went off to Amsterdam to ... Read more >
SPAIN | Sunday, 15 Mar 2009 | Views [516] | Comments [1]
after not enough time in Barcelona (mostly my fault because I dawdled around and didn't get up and out as early as I maybe should have - this is where I miss the discipline of being in an organized tour like when Kathy and I were here with the Rick Steves ... Read more >
SPAIN | Friday, 13 Mar 2009 | Views [483] | Comments [1]
back in Barcelona - was here about 5 1/2 years ago but was not feeling great so I only really absorbed part of it - for architecture dilettantes like me it's heaven - so many gorgeous buildings to look at and so many of them are right near my hotel, ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 10 Mar 2009 | Views [1317] | Comments [1]
I trıed a Turkısh bath yday wıth some trepıdatıon sınce I had read several revıews and accounts that made ıt seem frustratıng and dısappoıntıng at least for women. Some places have added women,s sectıons as an afterthought and have changıng rooms ın ... Read more >
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES | Saturday, 7 Mar 2009 | Views [429] | Comments [2]
believe it or not I had more internet access in SE Asia than in Dubai and Istanbul (at least until today), hence my terrible neglect of this blog let's see - I flew to Dubai on Tuesday 3 March and got more jet lag flying there from SIN than I had from ... Read more >
MALAYSIA | Sunday, 1 Mar 2009 | Views [1110]
singapore was a little disappointing but only because i had memories of its 1970's incarnation ' it's still a very cool place with its mix of chinese, indian, malay and european stuff - it's just not as out there on the streets as it used to be, meaning ... Read more >
SINGAPORE | Wednesday, 25 Feb 2009 | Views [507] | Comments [3]
some unenlightened people may find it incomprehensible that I actually flew overnight from Bangkok to Tokyo, hung around at Narita airport (which is not geared for very early morning arrivals - I was actually shocked at the lack of coordination and assistance ... Read more >
THAILAND | Monday, 23 Feb 2009 | Views [1660] | Comments [1]
i suppose i could get bored eventually, but right now i'm thinking 'this is how i want to live from now on!' i'm in the sumptuous Thai Aiways First Class Lounge at Bangkok - have been pampered and petted since i rolled up with little grey to the curbside ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Friday, 20 Feb 2009 | Views [1160]
can't seem to remember how to upload an additional photo for 1 story so here's a quick entry just to give back the one of me crouching in the 1.2 meter high tunnel at Cu Chi
VIETNAM | Friday, 20 Feb 2009 | Views [1688] | Comments [3]
yesterday our guide Phuong took me (Beth had tummy problems and stayed behind unfortunately) to the CuChi tunnels, where the VC and their supporters hid in tunnels up to 3 stories underground - everything was camouflaged amazingly (here's a cool pic of ... Read more >
VIETNAM | Wednesday, 18 Feb 2009 | Views [579] | Comments [2]
Beth and I flew from Da Nang to Saigon yesterday (quite weird thinking of all of us well-fed happy tourists flying out of a place called Da Nang, at least for those of us who remember the 60's and 70's). It's of course hot hot hot (more so even than ... Read more >
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