Travel for Fun

Dubai: Ibn Battuta Mall

by zora on April 3, 2012

Following up the runaway success of my post on Terminal 21 in Bangkok, I think I might become a specialist in theme malls. I admit I felt a little thrill at going to the Ibn Battuta Mall in Dubai not so much because I admire the 14th-century traveler (though I do), but because I was [...]

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Terminal 21, Bangkok

by zora on February 13, 2012

OK, this is just total eye candy for travel geeks. I don’t even like malls. But Bangkok is a mall kind of town, and when Rod (yes, he met us in Bangkok again this year) told me that there was a new airport-theme mall, I of course had to go. It’s at the Asok BTS [...]

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Piraeus’ Accidental Museum of Travel

by zora on January 30, 2012

Remember travel agents? I think I last used one in 1996, to book a trip to the Dominican Republic. In Greece, where as we all know from the news, they’re not really keeping up with the program, it was hard to even find ferry schedules online up until a few years ago. And, as far [...]

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48 Minutes in Japan

by zora on January 23, 2012

Following on the heels of the quickie Munich visit…we spent even less time in Japan, and it was just in the Tokyo Haneda airport, but still, it was enough time to have our minds blown. We made a beeline for duty free, to procure a couple of bottles of IW Harper bourbon, on a tip [...]

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