Dear Reader, our fourth and final day in Panama got off to quite a start. As I mentioned yesterday, Gamboa Rainforest Resort offers quite a number of excursions – a birdwatching trek, a ski lift-style ride for 1.5 km above the roof of the rainforest (which we obviously would have been done had it not [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Days 4-5 – 5/30/11-5/31/11 – Gamboa; Atlanta
Posted in Panama - 5/27/11 - 5/31/11, tagged Panama, Panama Canal, Travel on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Day 3 – 5/29/11 – Panama City; Gamboa
Posted in Panama - 5/27/11 - 5/31/11, tagged Panama, Travel on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Reader, as I write this I am being serenaded in my left ear by the sounds of a rainforest, including it seems a howler monkey (insanely loud), and in my right ear by the sounds of a relatively sedate hotel bar (Nights in White Satin for some reason). Tiger Mom, TBJ and I decamped [...]
Days 1-2 – 5/27/11-5/28/11 – Atlanta, GA; Panama City, Panama
Posted in Panama - 5/27/11 - 5/31/11, tagged Panama, Travel on May 31, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hola Dear Reader! Today is the first day of a 5 day trip for your Blogger, Tiger Mom and The Blogger, Junior (TBJ) to Panama – home of the Panama Canal, numerous sloths, and as we have discovered this morning, 100% humidity. I must also apologize for the lack of pictures. Your Blogger cleverly ran [...]
Day 10 – 12/16/10 – Istanbul
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Travel, Turkey on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ortakoy Area Our last day in Istanbul was pretty cool, albeit in a very laid back kind of way. After lounging around for a while we decided to go walking, stepped out of our hotel, and found ourselves in a little cobblestone area on the Bosphorus, blocked from vehicular traffic, with some of the [...]
Day 9 – 12/15/10 – Skopje, Macedonia; Istanbul
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Macedonia, Skopje, Travel, Turkey on May 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ahh, Dear Reader. I write to you from a desk in the Radisson Blu Bosphorus in lovely Istanbul, listening to a lounge station on Pandora on my iPad and drinking a beer in a state of almost complete relaxation. Tiger Mom and TBJ have done me one better as both are currently asleep and, presumably, [...]
Days 5-8 – 12/11-12/14/10 – Skopje and Stip, Macedonia; Nis, Serbia
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Macedonia, Nis, Serbia, Skopje, Stip, Travel on May 15, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
First thing on the morning of the 11th (well, first thing after the hour or so it takes to complete TBJ related preparations), we made our way down to the Skopje city center shopping mall to find breakfast and a few gifts. Breakfast was one of the all-time great successes as a place that Tiger Mom knew [...]
Day 4 – 12/10/10 – Istanbul / Skopje, Macedonia
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Macedonia, Skopje, Travel, Turkey on May 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Very nice! One thing I forgot to mention about yesterday’s excursions was a trip to Istanbul’s Grand Bazaar. By Grand Bazaar standards, this one was a little disappointing as it was very well-organized, had actual stores with walls and everything, and was sorely deficient in terms of yelling and shrieking. In other words, it was a [...]
Day 3 – 12/9/10 – Istanbul
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Travel, Turkey on May 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Our second day in Istanbul started with a call to prayer wakins us after a solid 4 hours of sleep uninterrupted by TBJ or jetlag. This was unusual in the extreme, and you can imagine our excitement. I really can’t say enough about how well Hotel Ibrahim Pasha is treating us – from a Euro [...]
Day 2 – 12/8/10 – Istanbul
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Travel, Turkey on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Arrival in Istanbul was uneventful. Attaturk International is a major regional hub, more efficient than most airports I’ve been to, and in less than an hour we had purchased visas, cleared customs and headed out to Hotel Ibrahim Pasha - our home for the first leg of this trip. Now, dear reader, your Blogger has long [...]
Day 1 – 12/7/10 – Atlanta, GA; Istanbul
Posted in Istanbul and Skopje - 12/7/10 - 12/17/10, tagged Istanbul, Macedonia, Skopje, Travel, Turkey on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Hello again, dear Reader! It has been some time since our last update and much has changed in the life of your Blogger. He has made a few work trips abroad to places like Korea and England which he will not chronicle here. Your Blogger and the Lady spent a very nice long weekend in [...]
