Category Travel
Monday Reflections
It’s Monday and my brain for some reason wants to shut down. Gray weather can do that. Spring sunshine and warmer temperatures can’t be that far away, but there are probably other factors preventing me from delivering deep insights today. I’ve been reading too much I spent my weekend reading about government ethics, both scholarly […]
One Last Weckensonntag Look
From 2018… Today a photo essay, just some of the pictures I took last Sunday at Sulzburg’s annual Weckensonntag event. I’ve been considering the differences between this very local festival and the much larger Fastnacht which is observed throughout the Black Forest. Fastnacht is bigger and more colourful, but having seen it once I have […]
More Weckensonntag
When I think about it, my experience with this unique festival was rather limited. I was captivated by it our first year in Sulzburg, 2018. I missed the 2019 festival becasue we were traveling, though at the moment I can’t remember where. Greece maybe. In 2020 and 2021 the festival was canceled due to the […]
Only in Sulzburg
I was feeling uneasy today, a sense of FOMO – fear of missing out. Then I realized what it was. I am missing out. Tomorrow is Weckensonntag, and I won’t be in Sulzburg. So for teh next couple of days we are going to revisit 2018 when I first discovered this unique local festival. Our […]
How Do They Do That?
Planning about a trip to London in a few months got me thinking about a previous visit. This post is from this day in 2017. There were two Yodas floating around when I was last in Trafalgar Square in central London. Darth Vader was there too. It wasn’t just Star Wars characters though. Death put in appearance […]
More Petrified Forest
If a picture is worth a thousand words, today’s post is a novella. Or at least a long story. These pictures were all taken at the Petrified Forest in Cairo (as were yesterday’s). If you are ever in the area, I think it is worth the visit.
Petrified!
Certainly there’s no chance of not being able to see the forest for the trees. There are no trees in this forest. But there used to be, which is why the Petrified Forest is a protected area in a Cairo suburb. It is a place few tourists know about, few Egyptians also. If you want […]
The Cats of Cairo
There are 15 million people living in Cairo. At times it seems as if they are outnumbered by the cats you see everywhere you go. The ancient Egyptians worshipped cats. I don’t think they do anymore, but cats do seem to have the run of the city – you see them everywhere in Cairo. My […]
On The Banks
There must be hundreds of restaurants in Cairo situated on the banks of the Nile River. Actually, I can’t be sure of the number given that I didn’t walk the whole route. I’m extrapolating form the few kilometres I did walk, in which there were dozens of places to eat, from high end establishments catering […]
UnBuckled
Sunday being a day of rest, let’s take a trip back to this space in February 2015. On Sundays back then I tried to feature churches from my travels. I still have several churches I haven’t talked about – maybe I should return to that habit. Anything free when you are traveling is a good […]
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