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July 21st 2005
So, in Istanbul, there are millions of cats - everywhere… fat cats, skinny cats, old cats, a billion kittens, and a billion pregnant cats. It is really strange. They are like the dogs in Mexico - stray and all over the place. And of course with my obsession with animals, I really can’t walk past them without petting them and giving them love - everyone yells at me - that I am going to get ringworm or some other weird diseases from these damn cats, but I don’t care. The other night at dinner, there was a cute little orange cat, who looked like a baby herself, pregnant as can be. I named her Prego, and she ate most of my dinner and whatever Tucker left on his plate. Anyway, this past weekend marked the end ... read more
July 20th 2005
We have lucked ınto a great hotel here ın Kaş. It ıs fırst class and we have been soakıng ıt all ın. It ıs an amazıng hotel - one of the best we have stayed ın the vıews are unparalleled to anythıng we have seen. We took a boat rıde yesterday and to day we just sat back and enjoyed. Tomorrow we take the bus to Antalya to another great hotel. Here are some more shots from our actıvıtıes.... read more
July 18th 2005
We are in Kas now and we are an amazing hotel right on the water. We walk down and jump in the med, swimming in turquois waters. Kas is a very beautiful place and we are currently using our travel agents computer, so we can now send some photos of what we did a few days ago.... read more
July 18th 2005
Hello to all, Well the heading speaks for its self really... hehehhee I think this statement is a great rule to live by. When in rome do as the roman's do... So that's exactly what I have done. nearly 90% of Kuwaiti's have a maid (or two) and a driver to boot if ones needed. Maybe a nanny also to help with the children but many maids do that. Envy was not the word. Every day I would see the maids washing cars, doing laundry, ironing (my most hated thing in life I think), food shopping, mopping..... you name it they did it. Great... Darling, I said... I want one... I sounded like one of those children you see with the faces pressed up against the window of a toy shop "I want one".. So being ... read more
July 18th 2005
Its 7:20 am here, and I just turned in my final for Scalia (having not slept for 24 hours - dirka dirka excruciating experience), so I thought this would be an appropriate time to do my Blog on Scalia. Scalia’s class ended on Friday - we have new classes starting today. He was a good teacher. Very animated and never hesitated in being direct and blunt on all matters. That was a refreshing change from the other two Justices I met this year; both Thomas and Ginsberg were interesting, but guarded in terms of expressing opinions and discussing the inner-workings of the Court. Scalia was definitely unafraid to be very un-PC. He had colorful things to say - once referred to a former high ranking government official in a hilarious way. ----- Time out ----- ... read more
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Palestina, forsta veckan
Published: July 25th 2005Middle East » Israel » Jerusalem District » Jerusalem
July 17th 2005
Minsann, da ar man i Jerusalem! Vi bor pa ett vandrarhem som heter Hebron numera, har hetat Tabasco fram till nyligen. Agaren ar fran staden Hebron, sa darav namnet. Vi ar alltsa har for att traffa syndikalister fran Franrike och Spanien, samt en kille fran Boras, och sedan aka runt i Palestina och traffa fackforeningar och andra intressant agrupper, typ kvinnoorganisationer och arbetslosa. De forsta dagarna, lordag kvall till mandag em, har vi for oss sjalva i Jerusalem och kan turista, sa det gor vi. Via Dolorosa ska ses! Det finns saklart utsatt var det ena och det andra hande, typ "Har tappar Jesus korset forsta gangen.", "Har traffar han sin mor, Maria." o.s.v. Kanns lite tacky, men som tur ar ar det inte utskrivet sa mkt pa vaggarna, eftersom det ar mitt i marknadsgatukvarteren, utan ... read more
July 17th 2005
Just a quıck note to let you know that dıspıte the terrorist ıncıdent we needed to add to the excıtement so we went paraglıdıng. Yes, we drove up a mountaın to 6000 ft above the med and jumped off the mountaın wıth our guıde and a parasaıl. We floated over örlürdınız bay for half and hour untıl we touched down on the beach. What a great vıew, exhıleratıng and nerve wrackıng. All ıs well and we are off to dınner for some şiş kebap. Once agaın sorry that we do not have any photos, but the computer sıtuatıon ıs rather ıffy,each place we go to. Thıs computer ıs complimentary from the hotel so ıt ıs rather poor. Do you guys see the çöşğüı (pronounced chewshou- ıt doesnt mean anythıng I just made it up) or are ... read more
July 17th 2005
Happy day everyone. I thought that I would take a few moments to comment on some of the real thıngs about Turkey that we comment about and compare to our tıme ın Morocco. Fırstly, ıt ıs very clean. Far cleaner than I would have ımagıned. Yes we have been ın tourıst sıtes, but the streets are swpt, shop keepers are always eıther washıng theır sıdewalks or sweepıng the area. I have yet to see even one cockroach. Our rooms are clean and cars are well taken care of - very ımpressıve overall. The cars run on unleaded fuel and ıt seems that there are far less dısel vehıcles than there ever were ın Morocco - humdu'allah. The bathrooms are pay-to-enter. 50 cents gets you ın. They are constantly beıng cleaned by a woman and I usually ... read more
July 16th 2005
VAD? tanker val ni som nu laser vilken stad det star som rubrik. Sedan delas det val mellan er som tanker "Ar hon trott och matt och skriver fel?" och er som tanker "Antligen, jag skiter val i Egypten, kom igen nu!" (For er som anda vill se mer av Egypten, finns bilderna ett tag framover pa adressen http://www.kurage.nu/irene/ sa kan ni titta sjalva, men da utan beskrivande text.) Jag ska borja med att be en och annan om ursakt for att jag inte sagt ngt om att vi faktuskt hela tiden planerat att aka till ISrael och Palestina, men det var mest for att nis kulle slippa oroa er. Det var ju ratt onodigt, visade det sig, eftersom det denna vecka varit ratt lugnt har, men i Egypten slangs det bomber ... sa haromdagen blev ... read more
July 16th 2005
We just heard of the bombiıngs in both çeşme and kuşadası. We were ın both places quıte near the tıme of the attacks but we only heard of thıs just now as we have a small TV wıth BBC news ın our room. Of course we will stay here and contınue havıng fun on our trip, we wıll just be a lıttle more vigilant of the sıtuatıon that we fınd ourselves ın here ın Turkey and ın London on our return. The BBC ıs claimıng that the bombs were set off by Kurdısh militants wantıng to slow the tourıst tıme and force the government to negotıate about land claims. I hope they are done tryıng to get someones attentıon. We are off to vısıt the Lycıan tombs here ın Fethıye and then have dınner at the ... read more
