pecheur - Matthew Phelps

I've been traveling since before I can remember; my family was in the oil business so we moved countries every couple years growing up- from Houston, Tx - Sydney, Aus, back to houston, back to Sydney, to London, to Norway, then to Egypt for my high school years. Now I'm stuck in Indiana for 4 years of college. But the nomad lifestyle seems to have permeated my soul, and now I can feel myself getting itchy feet if I stay put for too long. I'm gonna try an put a few blogs about my life in Egypt, but the main reason I joined this is for my future travels

This summer I will be going to volunteer in Ghana for 2 months and then take 2 or 3 weeks to travel around the surrounding countries for a while. After that I'll finish up my last year at Purdue then hit the road again!

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By pecheur
March 2nd 2006

A day in Tirana Europe » Albania » West » Tirana

Communist Captial
The old Communist capital buildings

Tirana June 11th Tirana is not my favorite city in terms of things to do and places to see for the quick traveler . That being said, it reminds me much of my 'hometown' of Cairo Egypt, with the pseudo-third world feel. This city is not one of outstanding beauty and great historical monuments, although there is much history to the region. We stayed at a little hostel/hotel near the center of the city, and it was by far one of the worst places we've stayed at so far, as well as one of the most expensive at 20€/person per night. [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
February 28th 2006

Albania At last! Europe » Albania » West » Tirana

The welcome sign to Albania
Are those bullet holes?

Albania at last! June 10 *Sorry i dont have more photos, i'm kicking myself that i didnt take more, but i just wanst feeling very well (aka very hung-over!) I love this country!! For some reason I've always wanted to come to this place, its one of those places that you hear quite a bit, either in the news or from other people, yet you never hear it as an actual place to go. I also hear it in the context of its people, ethnic Albanians. I guess this probably has much to do with the problems in Kosovo and all. [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
February 27th 2006

Sofia-Skopje-Ohrid Europe » Macedonia » Ohrid

Monestary
I forget much about this, but i'm pretty sure its a relativly recent structure built on a much older site. I know this area was where the crylic script was invinted

This part was written by my traveling buddy Claire, i wish she wrote more cause shes does a much better job then me! June 8th; Sofia-Skopje-Ohrid I am dosing off as the dreary weather in Sofia welcomes Matt and I to the Balkans. We start our trip off in Sofia - everything is great so far - we have our tickets to Skopje in advance and a taxi is waiting for us downstairs. 15 minutes later I realize that we are actually driving towards the airport not the bus station. We have 15 minutes until the bus leaves by the time [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
February 27th 2006

looking for the sun Europe » Macedonia » Ohrid

the lake

June 9th - Orhid Today was an elusive search for sunshine. This town and the surroundings are beautiful, but I just love sun. I thought that by June it would be well unto summer weather, but I guess I should have done a bit more research as it was chilly an rainy almost the whole time there. We didn’t have any definite plans, but just wondered throughout the town checking out all the nooks and crannies. After a disappointing lunch in the newer part of town we headed down to the lake front to walk along over the monasteries on the [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
February 26th 2006

Istanbul - Sofia Middle East » Turkey » Marmara » Istanbul

cathedral

June 4th 2005- Left the group in Istanbul, for some reason I was getting a little nostalgic even though the entire trip all I could think about was how to get the hell away from most of them. I hate goodbyes, and living the type of life I did, its been full of them. I especially hate them when people try and turn them into some emotional ‘ill never see you again’ type crap. I go to school with all these people so I be seeing them again come 2 months. But even those crappy goodbyes couldn’t dampen my lightened spirit [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
December 19th 2005

Magnoon! Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

Classic shot
The two big one at Giza- This shot always reminds me of those stupid insperational posters I see in my boss' office

Second Day Cairo, or Al Qahirah in Arabic, boggles the mind and the senses. The first impression simply overloads the brain; too much is happening in too many places too fast to make any sense of it. The insane traffic bound by no rules mixing with masses of apparently suicidal pedestrians, both dogging the donkey carts wondering the streets seemingly ignorant of the 20th century heap of humanity and technology surrounding them. Then as your eyes slowly adjust to the cacophony that surrounds them you begins to hear to the music of Cairo, a symphony composed of a thous [View Full Entry]

By pecheur
December 18th 2005

Last Trip Home Africa » Egypt » Lower Egypt » Cairo

Graduation 2003
We had our graduation ceremony right in front of the Giza Pyramids...pretty cool eh?

Well, since this is my first travellog/blog I'm not exactly sure how it goes. But I’ve always wanted to write something about my time spent in Egypt. I just got home from my last trip there for, probably, a long time. I lived there from 2000-2003, went to the American High school in Ma'adi, a beautiful, relatively sheltered "suburb" just south of Cairo. I really love to travel and reading the blogs on this site i realise how much there is out there for me to still see! here's a map of countries I visited Visited Countries Map [img=/VC/vc.php?cl=egk [View Full Entry]

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