Well it seems like it has been a while since I have posted anything. I have been sick for what feels like a week with a sore throat and a cold. I went to a doctor yesterday and I got some antibiotics that appear to be helping. My always troublesome tonsils are really struggling with Read More »
First of all 2 words… jet & lag! We thought we got enough sleep on the plane but we were really tired today. Whew! So we landed at Gatwick and security took about 1 1/2 hours. It wasn’t that bad. Then we struggled trying to figure out the how to use the Tube and buses. Read More »
The next day Erik, Frank and Lou picked me up at 9am. Our first stop was to one of the gates of Angkor Thom which was pretty impressive. As we headed up to the gate, we had to cross a bridge that was on top of a moat. The bridge was flanked on either side Read More »
From Kosovo I hopped on a bus to Skopje, the capital of Macedonia and a fairly short ride away from Pristina. Jeanne, a Princeton student and Kosovo Law Center intern, came with me as she had a late afternoon flight to catch from Skopje. We cruised through customs, although I was quite upset Jeanne got Read More »
Despite weeks of preparations and research, poring over guidebooks and travel forums and grilling seasoned travellers to the sub-continent, nothing could have truly prepared me for arriving in Delhi! I met David at Heathrow, a guy booked onto the same Intrepid trip as me, also on the same flight. Jet airways fed us delicious curried Read More »
As some of you will know my visit to Chichen Itza was always going to be a special and moving trip for me. A very special person who is no longer with us used to show me photographs of this place when he visited there some years ago. They were what inspired me to travel, Read More »
Visit a French perfume house and then take the opportunity to visit some of the most celebrated icons of Europe. The Louvre, Eiffel Tower, Nôtre Dame, Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées all await your arrival! Tonight, why not complete your Parisian experience with a French meal and a famous cabaret? ————————————————————— What a Read More »
Today I woke up at 11:30am! Jeff woke me up in the middle of the night saying that he couldn’t sleep. After that I couldn’t get back to sleep until almost 4am. I woke up sometime in the early morning, heard the rain and went back to bed. Yep. I said rain. Great huh? It Read More »
I am continuing my tour of the “hill-stations” with a weekend in Rishikesh. While the British were in India many small mountain villages like Rishikesh and Dharamsala became popular vacation spots for fellow travelers trying to escape the heat of the Indian plains. Rishikesh is famous for being the “Yoga Capital of the World.” The Read More »
Managed to change our flight without any issue, so we got back to Kathmandu on the 23rd. Bit of a scarier flight this time, since the day was much more cloudy than the previous flight to Lukla. Plus, we had heard the day before that a similar airline had had a crash in Western Nepal Read More »
