Category: Travel

How I spent my Saturday: Prowling the Holy City of Yerushalim! The Wailing Wall: And of course we spent a fair amount of time in the church of the Holy Sepuchre:

Was on one side of the Atlantic in Washington DC. Now I am about as far away from there as you can get. Flight over here was pretty OK-save for the fact that the services on the airline sucked. Fortunately the flight was only about half full-so I had room

For not posting more recently. Between moving into our house, and departing on a business trip-its been busy since last Wednesday. This trip has me covering both sides of the Atlantic and the Mediterranean. This morning I woke up in sight of the Capitol of the US-tomorrow, I will be

Splits Romania into two distinct regions. North and West of them-you are in Transylvania. Go South and East or West-you are in a flat region that resembles Kansas. But in the moutains-one can forget the noisy bustle of Bucharest, and also the heat of that city. Thus when I went

Arrived in Bucharest/ The trip had good things to recommend it and bad things to forget. On the plus side , I got re-routed through Houston, since my flight to DC was  not going to make it in time. (Weather and FAA delay). So I got put in Business Class

Which means-that despite recent presonal economic news, life and work goes on. Accordingly, I will be getting on a plane today and flying the long three leg route back to Bucharest, there to work for a month, before moving on to (insert bleak future prospects here). Why not just tell

I get to go home tomorrow! It is only for a about a fortnight or so-and then I will be right back here in Bucharest. I got up early-went to breakfast-then came back and went back to bed. Somehow I think I should not have bothered to get up. But

Jeffery Goldberg makes some great observations about how lousy Americans are about trying to blend in while traveling, all lectures to do so to the contrary: It became instantly obvious that this flight was going to carry a large number of Afghanistan-based American contractors and active-duty military personnel back home. It

Arrived back in Shopping Mall at 4AM last night-by bus. Long story-and none of it good. Primarily it was a comedy of errors by people who were not prepared to deal with 47 angry and tired people when the aircraft weather diverted into southern Alabama. I’m tired and grumpy today.