Trip: RTW 2009
There are [39] stories from my trip: RTW 2009
USA | Tuesday, 21 Jul 2009 | Views [634] | Comments [1]
Packing list Skirt – 1 silk skirt in khaki Blouses – 2 silk short-sleeved, one red and one black T-shirt – cotton short-sleeved, black Shorts - 1 pair black cotton Trousers/pant – 1 long pair silk African ... Read more >
USA | Saturday, 6 Jun 2009 | Views [414] | Comments [1]
I now have a few slideshows available at http://picasaweb.google.com/NncySF - it turns out I took over 4,000 pictures on this trip (thanks again very much to my colleague Wallace Lee who gave me a 4GB memory card for my camera!) and it's been very ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 24 May 2009 | Views [519]
I finally finished adding up the huge number of ATM receipts (thank goodness for the wonderful First Republic Bank policy of not charging for ATM transactions anywhere in the world!) plus credit card charges for the trip and it came to $13,500 - more ... Read more >
USA | Sunday, 17 May 2009 | Views [565]
Little grey has 2 large inside pockets and this is where I wound up throwing all ATM and credit card receipts (LOTS of those), plus pens, coasters, baggage tags, etc. acquired during the trip. I won't go into the ATM and CC stuff yet (I THINK the whole ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 27 Apr 2009 | Views [663]
Man it was HARD getting back to work!! (I realize that the amount of sympathy I will get is minimal, perhaps microscopic, but I'm still complaining to anyone who listens.) I really have to win that lottery... So here's 1 of my wrap-up/summary entries ... Read more >
USA | Monday, 20 Apr 2009 | Views [406]
i don't have my camera yet but i will definitely post more pix when i do - i also will try to keep the story going as much for my benefit as everyone else's i plan to post about the really good things, the not-so-good things, some stats (borders crossed, ... Read more >
USA | Friday, 17 Apr 2009 | Views [432] | 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 [549] | 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 [443] | 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 [768]
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 [1373]
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 [1212] | 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 [453] | 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 [495] | 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 [697] | 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 [2547] | 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 [530] | 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 [518] | 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 [1339] | 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 [445] | 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 >
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