portions originally written Oct. 12th, 2007 It’s truly amazing I can fly for 17 hours and still feel at home. Everyone speaks English, the stores are the same (well, high end, Bvlgari, Gucci, Burberry, Fendi everywhere – it’s like a large Santana Row or Plaza), the food is fairly similar […]
Monthly Archives: November 2007
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Hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving weekend.
Portions continued from the October 24, 2007 handwritten (*gasp!!*) diary entry… After wandering through the Forum and the Coliseum, Raju and I headed up to Palantine Hill. Raju, being the more observant of the two of us, noted how the grass was indeed greener for the rich folk. I, probably […]
The British royalty, if they haven’t always been, are now classified as “Entertainment”. Yes, alongside American Idle gossip and Mike Tyson gets jail time, there was a two minute clip on Queen Elizabeth’s 60th wedding anniversary with Prince Phillip. Poor guy, being second in command with his title, the ABC […]
Portions originally written October 24, 2007. It was one of the first things that ran through my mind in Rome. We’re staying near Vatican City, and the place is surrounded by junk shops and street vendors hawking pictures of the Pope, Jesus, and pretty much any other religious figure you […]
Heineken, I’ve learned, is much better in other countries. I’m not sure what they do to it here, but I won’t drink it. However, in Dubai and Europe, it’s not a bad beer — not my first choice, but drinkable. So I wonder, what did we ever do to the […]
This story is just too damn funny to even comment on… Read it at omg!
Actually, just a couple of months ago – but the DC reception in September feels like ages ago. When we arrived back from our trip there was a CD in the mail from Martin with more pictures from the DC reception. They’re now added to the DC reception , and […]
Lots of them. I took around 2700 pictures on this trip. Not sure how many I have posted, as I keep slowly editing and deleting in the albums. But, here are some quick links to the albums for each place we went (except New York, see last post): At the […]
Though, most of you already know that. It’s back to work for me today — somewhere in Zurich it hit me that I did indeed have a job and didn’t travel for a living. In Belur, this carving inspired me to pick up the feet pictures (like the one I […]