You know how they call New York New York? Well, the original York is in England and I went there once. In York, there is this thing called Clifford’s Tower, which is the last little nub left standing of the once great York Castle. The weather was sunny and the grass was green and so …
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Around Asia Chapter 1: Down and Out Down Under
I’m going to be starting this new thing called “Around Asia” where I will be recounting some of the adventures we’ve had, um, around Asia. Any proper account of our Asian adventures would be incomplete though without a mention of what directly preceded them at the airport in Australia. Just a night before it …
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Travelly Picture: Lantau Island, Hong Kong
So, it turns out that Hong Kong is more than just skyscrapers. After we got the word, we decided to get out to Lantau Island as soon as we possibly could to visit some Buddhist monastery. While there, this crazy storm just blew in from out of nowhere, and I took this image with my digital camera …
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An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 3: French Fried Farewell
Among other things, like being located in between Luxembourg and our home in Amsterdam, Belgium is known for being the home of a handful of the world’s tastiest treats. Waffles, beer, mussels, chocolate, chocolate mussels, beer waffles, to name just a few. I have actually even heard tales of waffles being sold with chocolate on …
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Travelly Picture: Blue Mosque, Istanbul
We stayed in Istanbul for five weeks, and of course put off seeing the big tourist sights until the very last day. One of those sights was the Blue Mosque, and in this image I captured with my digital camera, you get a bit of insight into how the Blue Mosque got its name. Oh …
An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 2: Luxembourg
Post riverfront pastry fest, we pulled back into the budget hotel’s parking lot around 11:58, just in time for a noon checkout. “No big deal, we’ve got this. Done it a million times.” I told Julia. We ran into a teeny-tiny problem as we tried to walk back in to the hotel, though. The security …
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Travelly Picture: Marlborough, New Zealand Winery
After consuming copious amounts of Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough, New Zealand over the years, I figured it would be fun for us to volunteer on a winery in Marlborough when we were in New Zealand a couple years back. You see those nets on the grapes? It was our job to put those on using these …
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An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 1: Givet, France
One of the caveats of the super cheap car rental deal we found was that the pick-up location was on the outskirts of Amsterdam. As a result, the Ardennes road trip began in a town called Hoofddorp, Holland. We actually spent our first week on Dutch soil last year in Hoofddorp, so it was nice …
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Travelly Picture: Clervaux, Luxembourg
This week’s travelly picture of the week was actually taken, um, today, as during our Ardennes road trip, we came across this cool looking little town called Clervaux. We were driving down this steep hill and then all of the sudden there she was. Clervaux reminded me of a real life Christmas village or something and I just …
Pregame Report: Ardennes Road Trip
Kickoff: Febraury 3-5, 2015. Site: The Ardennes How We Got Here: Remember when I said we were 99% sure we were going to Normandy during the first week of February? Well, um, yeah. I will spare you the goriest of the details, but let’s just say they involve an ugly incident with a car rental …