Author Archives: Matthew
The land where anything is possible – Dubai
We left Istanbul to go to Dubai. But instead of flying southeast we flew northwest…to London. Then from London to Dubai. Apparently oneWorld thinks it is more profitable to send us on a 5 hour flight then a 7 hour flight, instead of one 2 hour flight. All of which had empty seats, but no L class. No wonder [...]
Istanbul, Not Constantinople
Even old New York, was once New Amsterdam. Traveling from Romania to Turkey was a 20 hour odyssey fromBucharest to Istanbul in a vintage 1950s train car with no air conditioning with the summer sun beating in to the window from noon until dusk. We stayed not far from the famed Hagia Sophia and the Blue Mosque. Massive religious wonders. We paid the entrance fee to Hagia Sophia [...]
Freiburg, Stuttgart, and Rothenburg
This one time in college, I wanted to go to Freiburg to study a semester abroad. I got into the program, passed the German test (I don’t know how), went to a few classes for the 1 credit course to prepare me to go, and then bailed. I figured it would be a great experience, but it [...]
Dresden, Hamburg, Köln
After we left Berlin, we spent 6 days in 4 cities throughout Germany. From what I remebered in German class, East Germany (in 1998) was still living in the ’60s, kind of like Cuba, and many of the buildings had not been repaired since WWII. Fortunately for Dresden, this was not true. It has been [...]
Das alles ist Berlin
So who knew trains could go onto ferry boats? So that is how we got to Germany from Copenhagen. We made our way to Berlin after entering Germany. Apparently Germany is very trusting when it comes to S-Bahn usage. S-Bahn is the above ground urban railway system. You can just jump on without going through a turn-style and in effect [...]
Køpenhavn
After leaving gorgeous but expensive Sweden we landed in Copenhagen, Denmark, which is probably more expensive and less gorgeous. Walking out of the central station you look upon the Tivoli Park walls, where you can see the some of the rides rise above them. This park has been the most popular tourist attraction in Copenhagen since basically [...]
Sense of Adventure in Perfect Isolation – Ngorongoro Crater
After leaving THE Serengeti National Park, we backtracked to the Ngorongoro Crater. For those of you who don’t know, it’s an onomatopoeia for the sound a cow bell makes (or at least that is what we were told, because I can’t see it). Anyway, we camped at the top of the crater, and gee-whiz, it was cold. We’re [...]
Serengeti National Park
The granddaddy of them all, the highlight of the Africa, the crème de la crème, THE Serengeti National Park. The climax of the 41 day trip to Africa was the Serengeti National Park. Sure you could say our expectations were high, but it didn’t matter. This place was fantastic. Even if the millions of wildebeest and zebra already migrated [...]
Catching Up
So as you can probably see, we are a little behind in writing our posts. So now that internet is a more readily available and Jill has been hounding me, we are going to get out of Africa soon enough and on to Europe. It’s just so hard to not be lazy, because not everything [...]
China
No, we didn’t go to China on this trip, but… We heard that China has banned our website in the People’s Republic. Apparently, it is a little too racy for the millions of people that want to view our site from China. Crazy business.
