After touring Islamic Cairo, our next stop was the Egyptian Museum. We only saw one or two small groups of tourists in Islamic Cairo– and no other Americans– but we soon realized why: all of the tour groups were at Read More
Islamic Cairo
Cairo is hard to describe, and even pictures wouldn’t do it justice. It is a megacity with more than 1000 years of extraordinarily rich “modern” history, and that’s ignoring the thousands of years that preceded it in antiquity. Everywhere you Read More
Egypt: What We Ate
Everyone I ever know who has ever been to Egypt has always warned me that Egyptian food poisoning can be epic. I vividly recall one of my first bosses tell me about how he ate pigeon (an Egyptian delicacy) from Read More
Egypt: The Game Plan
I’m generally not weird about birthdays, but shortly after turning 29, I turned to Severin and said “I want to go on a trip for my 30th birthday.” Exact location tbd, but on my birthday, I didn’t want to be Read More
Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki
The whole point of going to Greece was to take the GMAT. We left early for the testing center on our last day in Greece and even though I arrived 30 minutes early, they let me start as soon as Read More
Thessaloniki
After Meteora, we arrived in Thessaloniki and stayed at a lovely little boutique hotel called the Blue Bottle. Thessaloniki has an interesting vibe. It’s definitely not Europe– of the places I’ve been, I’d say it felt very Balkan with a Read More
Meteora Walking Tour
Apart from our frequent food tours, I find that I am generally reluctant to go on tours. When we do though, I almost always find we’ve gotten more out the experience, so we really should do it more often. I Read More
Fabulous Meteora
The drive to Meteora wasn’t too bad– on our way into the mountains we went through 13 or 14 short tunnels. It poured a few times, and I slept for about half of the three hour trip. I drove the Read More
Horse Update
Just about two years ago, I started riding again after last riding seriously in the summer of 2006. While it’s not travel or food related, it has been an indelible component of my time here in Cyprus so it seems Read More
What We Ate: Thessaloniki
We racked up another food tour this past trip, so I think it’s safe to say we are quickly becoming expert consumers of food tours. (I’ve done food tours in Madrid, Tel Aviv, Beirut, Prague, Amsterdam, Rome, and Thessaloniki! They Read More