And now there's more And now I have published the third and last blog entry from that trip. Hope you enjoy that one as well. If you like cats I can recommend reading about Holy Monastery of St Nicholas of the Cats. /Ake
Cyrus holds interest We were going to visit Turkey and Cyprus later this year but another trip popped up so that may not happen. Thanks for sharing your time there. I think we would enjoy visiting. I'm sorry you didn't make it to the Salt & Pepper Museum. That is a place you would have found us visiting. Off season is usually a great time to visit many places.
Combining Turkey and Cyprus Since you have been thinking about visiting Turkey and Cyprus I can give you some input from my perspective. I spent a week in Cyprus and was quite happy with that. I didn't need more time than that but wouldn't have liked less than that either. A long time ago I visited North Cyprus (2006. I have written about it on TravelBlog if you wish to read about it). I spent a week there and was quite happy with that. I didn't need more time than that but wouldn't have liked less than that either. Turkey I have visited several times. Even if you limit yourself to the most interesting places you could easily spend a month there.
North Cyprus is occupied by Turkey. The situation is very relaxed nowadays so I don't expect you to run into any visa problems if you decide to go to Cyprus and Turkey on the same journey. But travelling directly between the two countries might not be possible. But it ought to be uncomplicated to travel via some other country in Europe. /Ake
Fun collection of photos Interesting that churches, mosques and a monastery (Buddhist? Christian??) all are represented. I'm curious about the demographics there. Thanks for sharing your trip! Oh my cod! hahahaha
Philly and NYC Two very cool cities, nice to read about them again. It seems like you've been to New York many times in the past. It's such a dynamic city, it always amazes me how much more there is to see there year after year. The Little Island in the Hudson looks amazing, as does the very thin skyscraper. I also visited the Friends building when I was last there in 2022, but I couldn't find the Ghostbusters building... Such iconic memories from such an iconic city.
I also have to see the Men in Black building We love New York and that partly explains why we have been there multiple times. We have also noticed that New York is a good gateway to visit other places in the region. Flight to NYC are sometimes so cheap that it is better to fly to New York and from there buy separate tickes to other places in North America or the Caribbean that to book flights that takes us to the destination without the extra stop.
One building we have to see one day is Men in Black building. I think it is a power station or something.
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Canada wins by far The view of the falls from the American side is not impressive although the river leading up to it is grand. Our first time at Niagara Falls we stayed at a Sheraton with a room facing the falls. It was spectacular as we could sit in our room with a floor to ceiling window and enjoy the show. Although nothing compares to getting up close and personal with the water. The power of water. I hate the tourist town that has grown around it but not much you can do to stop that sort of thing these days.
To love or to hate tourist towns? In Stockholm the old town may be described as a tourist town. In summer we avoid walking through there because of all the people. So to us locals the tourist invasion has somewhat damaged a part of Stockholm we actually love. But I have to admit that when I am in the old town in Tallinn I love the fact that it is a tourist town. I feel that it would have been less welcoming if it wasn't. So I have mixed feelings about tourist towns I guess. /Ake
It is powerful I like it too. I can almost sense the power of and hear the thundering from the water in that photo. Thanks for commenting on the blog. /Ake
We are Emma Holmbro and Ake Dahllof. We live in Stockholm, Sweden.
We have travelled more or less regularly since the mid 1990-ies and it seems like the more we travel the more difficult it is to decide where to go next. Not because we are running out of places to visit but because we find more places we want to go to faster than we manage to travel to them.
Some of the things from our travel bucket list we have ticked off since we started this blog in 2006 are
Angel Falls in Ven... full info
D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley
Cyprus
You certainly are wetting our appetite for a trip to Cyprus!