NICE FOOD REVIEW Sean and Shannon
Im glad you enjoyed your visit to Lima, an ugly city with excellent food and restaurants and a beautiful ocean view. I am Peruvian and I agree with your reviews. Pisco is a poor town like most of places in Peru lacks of more ambicious urban design because of the centralism government of Lima. However, Im sure you met the friendliest people outside of Lima.
ps- To the peruvian reader who wrote CuZco with Z, the correct spelling is CUSCO with S, and also Pisco people don't behave as wolves, what is wrong with you?
cha cha cha chilled eat, sleep, cruise and open locks at the same time! wow you guys are skilled.
this looks amazing. i love canals and bridges and stone buildings. a great family and friends trip. interesting chilled contrast to cigarette/liquor border crossing.
no need to carry liquor on the canals when there is a pub at every mooring!!
woo hoo fun by the pint.
keep in touch. let rod and I know about S.E. Asia.
love, e
black goodness i want some black pudding. i had it in scotland, battered and deep fried... this awoke the greasy new orleanian in me.it's kind of like boudin.
rodney and i brought a hagis back from there. yum.
Hi guys
Another great Blog entry. You're certainly the envy of all us folk who read your blogs while we're at work...wishing we were traveling too. It's even more amazing that you're getting to share such great experiences with family. Treasure your time.
Tamara
Unfinished buildings (& mosque) In many countries one does only have to pay taxes on owning a dwelling when it is finished. This is one reason why construction on so many buildings never seem to end.
A second reason is people gradually extend their houses as they get more children or to host elderly. It's a cultural issue too, not just a tax issue.
Regarding the unfinished mosque in Syria. It are the people (Muslims) who pay for the construction of the mosques in Syria because the government is not (at all) islamic. So things go gradually: when money comes available construction will continue.
Note: There is a mosque in Halab (Aleppo) that was build by Lebanes (Christian) cassino owners during the war in Lebanon. When it was finished the Muslims paid whatever to get rid of the cassino even before it opened. It is now the most fancy looking mosque of the city.
Ibo
http://www.nomadtribe.net/
Tamara... you were less wrong than I was Apparently I was way off. I forgot about Boeing. That's a shame because that particular building is only about 3 hours drive from where I'm at... and my step-mom worked there for a long time. And it appears it's not, in fact the largest. I guess millions and millions of flowers require more space than airplanes because the Netherlands wins the title.
Anyway... you were more the winner than I was. So... if you are ever up in the U.S. Pacific Northwest... I'll buy you a drink.
the good, bad, ugly! Sorry to hear about the con, live and learn.
Laura's has great grandparents from Romania.
Enjoy the security of your loving family. Keep up the whirlwind tour, we're still diggin it.
We're both wrong Me again
Ok, I was wrong before. The Boeing factory is the largest in volume, not floor area. Some flower factory in the Netherlands is actually the largest.
The Pentagon comes in 3rd. Check out this website
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World's_largest_buildings
Tamara
Are you sure Rock n roll Rich? I could be wrong here, but I'm pretty sure I remember reading that the Boeing factory in Seattle is the World's largest building in area.
Feel free to tell me where to go if I'm wrong.
T
Are you hungry? Sean why do you always show food? And why in the last picture in Turkey You Should Have found out what it was, like Hello I'm Not In Turkey Here!!!!!!! Your Lucky!!!!!!! NO FAIR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Sorry about the visa Hi! good to hear from you. i've learned a lot in Israel and Wed. i go to Turkey. Looks like we won't be meeting there becaused i'm only there for one week and off to Casablance on March 8th. Sorry about the delay. Cheryl
You guys might be my heros Wow I am so impressed with your adventures so far and the care you have taken to document them. Your pictures are just fantastic. Good luck with the rest of your trip!
Amazing.. Wow!! Your travel logs are amazing to read!!...Im heading to egypt in 3 weeks with a group from my school and it's so neat to hear your tips and persepctives on Egypt! I hope your trip went amazing and thanks for taking the time to write all this down....you just made me that much more pumped for my trip!...Keep blogging haha
¨Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.¨ Mark Twain... full info
Carlos from Peru
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NICE FOOD REVIEW
Sean and Shannon Im glad you enjoyed your visit to Lima, an ugly city with excellent food and restaurants and a beautiful ocean view. I am Peruvian and I agree with your reviews. Pisco is a poor town like most of places in Peru lacks of more ambicious urban design because of the centralism government of Lima. However, Im sure you met the friendliest people outside of Lima. ps- To the peruvian reader who wrote CuZco with Z, the correct spelling is CUSCO with S, and also Pisco people don't behave as wolves, what is wrong with you?