We are nearing the end of this year’s “Schengen Shuffle.” After touring the country of Georgia we still hadn’t reached the requisite 90 days outside the Schengen Zone to enable us to return in the Fall. We were delighted to find an inexpensive direct flight from Tbilisi to Larnaca, Cyprus, a member of the EU but…
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En route from Vienna to Amsterdam, we stopped for a few days in the central European country of Czechia, or as it is better known in English, the Czech Republic. However, well before either of those names became part of our lexicon, it was known as Bohemia. The Duchy of Bohemia was founded in the…
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Qatar Airlines is usually rated the top airline in the world, and one we’d been interested in trying in the past but never had a route that worked for us. The country of Qatar was a different story… one that until now was not on our radar for a visit. However, it turned out that…
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The first trip to live up to the name of our blog; after our Egypt adventure we took a detour to see the World Expo in Dubai! The six month long Expo was to open in October, 2020, (but, COVID!) so was postponed for a year, with an October 1, 2021 opening instead. We were…
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This is the second part of our Egypt trip summary. For Part 1, our visit to Cairo and Aswan (including total costs for the trip), see this post. The Nile The Nile, lifeblood of ancient Egypt (even today 95% of the Egyptian population lives within a few kilometers of this river). Its floodwaters left behind…
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So how does one summarize nearly 5000 years of history and mythology … with lots of pictures and a little bit of context, or at least I’m going to try! I expect most of us were first exposed to ancient Egypt back in grade school. That is certainly my recollection and perhaps what sparked my…
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Located at the crossroads of Asia, Africa and Europe is the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Historically, the biblical kingdoms of Moab, Gilead and Edom were situated within its borders; the Persian Empire occupied portions of the region between 549 and 330 BCE before Alexander the Great swept through the area. Simultaneously, in the southwestern corner…
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