Day 10.5 Tuesday, April 20, 2010 Success? Relief? I hope so. We spent all last night checking trains and buses, but nothing we could find was getting us anywhere any faster. Our B&B hostess found a train to Istanbul that would take only two days, but some legs of the journey were unavailable for onlineContinue reading “The Netherlands: Days 10.5 & 10.6 (the Great Volcano Standstill, 2010)”
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Photo blog 2
“Views of next door: Rooftop, door, and yard.” Abu Dhabi, April and May 2010. Individual photos (left to right, from top): “I love UAE!” (Outdoor chair and graffito celebrating UAE’s National Day: 38 years as a nation) “Dog days” (stuffed animal on a rooftop) “Cat on a hot tin roof” (street kitten hiding inside aContinue reading “Photo blog 2”
The Netherlands: Days 9 & 10
Day 9 Wednesday, April 14, 2010 We had planned today to go to Haarlem, but when we bought our train tickets to Hoorn yesterday, a saleswoman launched into a pitch to sell us bus-tour tickets, and we decided to take the brochure and peruse it just to make her happy. And sure enough, while waitingContinue reading “The Netherlands: Days 9 & 10”
Photo blog 1
I’m going to start a new feature here this week: I’m going to start posting photos. When we were stranded in Amsterdam last during the Iceland volcano fiasco, we decided to ease the tension of being trapped (I called it “maintenance,” as in, maintaining a healthy stress level) by visiting a few of the museumsContinue reading “Photo blog 1”
Samuel Snoek-Brown 