A slightly more succinct rant on the current status of the Pyramids can be found on lonelyplanet.com’s Travel Blog. Along with a photo I’m rather pleased with. Photos won’t show up here for another week and half, when I get home. Until then, I’ve got a couple more unillustrated posts on Egypt, Turkey and Greece [...]
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Just to answer the two most frequent questions I got before leaving for my trip: 1) Was I going/would I have to wear a head scarf? No. None of the countries I’m visiting have any laws requiring it, and I tend to think tourists who adopt this look when traveling anywhere but Iran and Saudi [...]
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When Peter and I went to Syria in 1999, we were bowled over by just how incredibly nice and kind people were. Unlike Egyptians, however, these people did not have a clutching, crazed fascination with us as foreigners, and so were also exceedingly polite. It was odd to be in a place that was more [...]
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Well, that was a little whirlwind. Peter and I leave for Aleppo tomorrow morning at 10:30. We will be traveling in style to the airport in one of the new air-conditioned yellow taxis that actually use meters and print receipts. I hope they age better than most of the improvements that have been attempted in [...]
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