Trip: Middle East/ Greece/ UK
There are [24] stories from my trip: Middle East/ Greece/ UK
USA | Saturday, 27 Dec 2008 | Views [506] | Comments [2]
i have finally edited all my photos and posted them into albums. it was a great trip and i took over 1000 photos, although, as always, about 50% are worth keeping. the links are as follows: Egypt http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2148302&... Read more >
USA | Tuesday, 23 Dec 2008 | Views [301] | Comments [1]
so i have finally made it back home. for those of you who have heard my really annoying and frustrating story about getting home, i will spare you here and not re-tell it again. in the athens airport, monica and i made a few top 3 lists in various ... Read more >
GREECE | Sunday, 14 Dec 2008 | Views [810]
hello! yesterday evening we arrived in delphi after a few setbacks from karpenisi. we only travelled three hours from karpenisi, but waited and such for so long that it took us 12 hours to make it to delphi. once we arrived, we discovered that EVERY ... Read more >
GREECE | Friday, 12 Dec 2008 | Views [647] | Comments [1]
so we have not seen any riots because until yesterday we were in the mountain village of monodendri with 150 residents, mostly grandmas and grandpas. as you can imagine they are not the type to attack police or smash store fronts, not that there were ... Read more >
GREECE | Sunday, 7 Dec 2008 | Views [664] | Comments [1]
first of all if you have heard, athens and thessolaniki are blowing up. we are not there right now and may only go into athens to catch our flights out on the 16th and nothing more. we will be watching the news. on the night of the 4th we headed out ... Read more >
TURKEY | Saturday, 6 Dec 2008 | Views [550]
on our 2nd day in istanbul we met no godfathers and avoided all other male attention by making faces and whiny sounds whenever someone talked to us. it worked! salesmen would just snap their mouths shut before a full sentence even got out. we were ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [552] | Comments [2]
We arrived in istanbul yesterday afternoon via ferry from yalova. we wanted to sit in the front of the ferry so we could see the city as we approached the dock, but our tickets had assigned seating and we ended up in the VERY back row facing the opposite ... Read more >
TURKEY | Tuesday, 2 Dec 2008 | Views [440]
operation blowout (the team of shannon, marshall, mon and myself and named for our inevitable gastric distress experienced nearly every morning on this trip) has now been officially dismantled and monica and i have now commenced travel manuevers under ... Read more >
TURKEY | Thursday, 27 Nov 2008 | Views [515]
hello! most importantly i must say happy thanksgiving everyone! we are definitely missing home and our favorite holiday today. we are now in kas on the turkish medıterranean coast. we arrived in antalya after a particularly horrible overnight bus ... Read more >
TURKEY | Friday, 21 Nov 2008 | Views [695]
on the morning of the 18th we headed out of nigde for the ihlara valley and cappadocia. we started our hike into the ihlara valley from a small village at the top below a big snowy mountain (mt. husan i believe). this valley, or canyon more like it, ... Read more >
TURKEY | Monday, 17 Nov 2008 | Views [525]
we left for antakya, turkey in the afternoon of the 18th. just outside of aleppo, some sketchy sweaty guy hopped on our bus at a run (it didnt stop, only slowed a bit) with bags and bags of unknown stuff. julie, our trip leader, informed us that he ... Read more >
SYRIA | Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [782]
We caught a bus from homs to aleppo, arriving in the late afternoon. the bus had really strange suspension- i think a few people almost got seasick because we were literally swaying back and forth like we were in a small boat on a rough sea. it ... Read more >
SYRIA | Saturday, 15 Nov 2008 | Views [603]
on the afternoon of the 12th we left damascus for palmyra by public bus. we caused a bit of consternation and uproar on the bus because we just piled on, not paying attention to the fact that we had assigned bus seats. there was a lot of milling about, ... Read more >
SYRIA | Tuesday, 11 Nov 2008 | Views [411]
we made it through immigration and were let into syria yesterday! there was some concern with the recent amazing actions of our amazing government crossing the syrian border from iraq (even the us embassy is still closed here in damascus amid fears ... Read more >
JORDAN | Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [682] | Comments [2]
after we left petra on the morning of the 8th, we headed towards the dead sea, stopping at kerak castle on the way. kerak castle was known at one point as the "walled city of moab" and thus learned that moab is not a native american word, but ... Read more >
JORDAN | Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [766] | Comments [1]
well, i'm able to check off another thing on my list of places to go. we left wadi rum on the morning of the 6th for petra. before arriving in the village, we stopped at a fruit stand for some last minute snacks and bought Washington apples. yes they ... Read more >
JORDAN | Sunday, 9 Nov 2008 | Views [518]
we headed out of aqaba on the morning of the 5th to reach wadi rum, a desert just north of the coast. on our way we could see across the jordan-israel border again to the town of elat. it is so strange to be seeing all these places you hear about in ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [931]
after visiting st. katherine's monastery, we drove 2.5 hours to nuweiba on the coast of the gulf of aqaba, which is a finger of the red sea between egypt and saudi arabia. decending down into nuweiba we had our first glimpses of the mountains of saudi ... Read more >
EGYPT | Wednesday, 5 Nov 2008 | Views [660]
we left cairo on the 2nd for the sinai peninsula, but i thought it was worth mentioning our dinner in cairo on the 1st (happy birthday dad!). we decided we had to try pigeon, an egyptian favorite, before we left cairo so we headed to the islamic quarter ... Read more >
EGYPT | Monday, 27 Oct 2008 | Views [660] | Comments [4]
we caught our train to aswan last night at about 9:30. mon and i shared a cabin which was actually pretty nice- our own sink and two beds, one of which turned into seats for when we werent sleeping. after about 5 mins on the train the attendant came ... Read more >
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