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Was Malaysia a bit of an unusual place to start an Asian adventure? Maybe. Most people do tend to say that Thailand and Singapore are the best places to get your feet wet in Asia, but we had it on very good authority that Malaysia was home to a spellbinding combination of arts, culture, and history. Oh, …
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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 …
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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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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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 …
Continue reading “An Ardennes Road Trip Chapter 3: French Fried Farewell”
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 …
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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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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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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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 …
