Greed is Universal Your frustration is obvious. The lack of empowerment for the villagers is sad. I guess greed is universal in this world. Unfortunately, the people who have the power to make changes for the better are usually the ones who either don't care, don't have any foresight or are profiting too much with things the way they are.
Happy New Year! Glad you had a special Christmas lunch. Sounds wonderful. I look forward to seeing your photos. We had the best Christmas present here in Canberra - rain for 60 hours straight - good soaking rain - fantastic!
And go, Janet. Just goes to show - idiots are world wide!
Merry Christmas! Sounds like a nice Christmas day. We had a lazy brunch with far too much food, then a lazy afternoon tea with more food (with a nap in the middle). Oh, and there was pavlova, because it's not Christmas without pavlova. x
Belated birthday to Janet Hi Janet and family, it's great to read about your travel to Suda. I worked with a few Sudanese people in a project early this year. Very nice people. Did you pick up some of their language? Happy belated birthday, Janet. I only got the blog address from Mary today. And happy Christmas too. Sydney is hot and sunny but rain is coming.
Swedes Quote:"The people in each of the places seem to be a little different too but, in keeping with the Swedish maxim we read somewhere - you shouldn't generalise about any group of people, except Norwegians - we wont."
It is almost impossible to physicaly see the difference between our neighbords to the east. But we have a saying that swedes are norwegians without brain... ;)
Great blog, very happy you enjoyed your stay in our country that we love so much. Hope you'll be back some day ! :)
Rgds Dag
Safety Hello Samantha. We have found Egypt quite safe and relatively easy. Tourism is very important here and there is a lot of care taken to ensure that tourists are looked after. You will find it very different from the USA though, especially if you haven't experienced bartering etc. One easy way of getting around is to join a tour group. But if you get yourself over there most hotels can arrange local tours for you. You might also get some advice or information on Lonely Planet's Thorntree website, but bear in mind that there is a great range of people posting on that. Good luck and I know you will enjoy it.
Sahara The Desert Hi, Sahara a wonderful and the largest desert. Thank you for this blog so we come to know about it in detail.
Thanks for sharing with us.
safety hello ,
I am a young student traveling to Egypt in a few weeks and I just wanted to make sure it was a safe place to travel. I have never been out of the USA. Any info that would help ease my worries I would greatly appreciate. thanks so much!
~Samantha Pitera
nice work. the representations are becoming more and more stylised. The inclusion withe the ganja leaf is great - he used to summarily execute blokes that got into that when he was el comandante!
If we don't talk again for a bit, have a great christmas, see you in Mexico!
google hasta la victoria siempre! Anyway, I now think that you saw Liz Hurley - which is more impressive than Jordan anyway. I just googled the date, London and Estee Lauder and got this http://forums.superiorpics.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/2268833/Elizabeth_Hurley_London_Launch
I'm like sort of super-detective-ninja!
Love, Adam
hi there hi,
I'm a design student and an architect here in India and I'm researching on the problems that
tourists face while finding there way in Indian Cities. Please mail me your comments, ideas,
observations on this. I'm based in Delhi and this research is for the improvement of signage
systems in the city.
Thanks
Raman
So good to see you Thanks so much for adding the Batchelor Pad to your journey whilst back in the Top End. We enjoyed your company enormously. Now that we have subscribed to your blog we will keep up with the where and what of your journeying . . and maybe remind you about quiz questions.
Amazing! Guys,
I just have to say that I love your commentary and your photos - can't wait to see the rest of them one day. Norway looks breathtaking. Thanks for taking us along with you through this Blog.
trees in the mist I seem to remember that the trees in the mist are not a 'forest in the mist' because of a big storm that went through the High Tatras a few years ago. And we (Barnes and I) braved the cold and wet to get photos of the effects while the driver/author stayed warm.
Blah Thanks for the comment PallMall. I actually enjoyed the scenery of Serbia. It was good to see productive land and mountains are not the only spectacle for us. Our only regret is that we didn't spend more time. Perhaps next time.
blah just a few remarks from my side.
Serbia is actually a country of a high mountains. you crossed via province of Vojvodina, that takes about 20% of Serbia and is almost totally flat, as you could see. Therefore, if you think you had seen Serbia in that way, that makes no sense.
Also, there are no shelled houses and properties as Serbia hasn't been involved in a civil wars of Yugoslavia in 90ties. But there are bombed out evidences on governmental buildings, hospitals, kindergardens, schools, public buildings, bridges, residential areas, marketplaces, roads, etc, all made by NATO in 1999. Yet, almost 99% of these are now repaired by Serbia.
However Serbia looked for you from the road (as you seems to have pretty much reserves, given all the spit-on-your=neighbor info from the rest of exYu) it is certainly more developed than that Bosnia, Montenegro and good part of Croatia. You just didn't go for it to see for yourself.
Also, similar heys, hellos, good-byes, are actually the SAME ones, as the SAME language is spoken in Croatia, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro. Call that language as you like. It is simply the same language, just like your wife speaks with you.
Belgrade is developing in a ultra speed mode, and it is recently regarded from the EU as the most prosperous city in south-eastern Europe area (you got info online about it). Novi Sad is actually Budapest-like place, but definitely smaller. The motorway you mention is right now under construction as panEuropean Corridor no.10 (out of 10 total across the Europe), financed by the EU funds.
Our travels over the years have often sought out those places that we haven't yet experienced. We have loved chasing new places, but there is a change underway. We continue to enjoy experiencing other cultures along with their food, beverages, history and ways of life but now, having a little more freedom, we will also make more effort to seek out out such things as music events and festivals, particular natural attractions that we have missed and places where we can better appreciate the history of a place and its people.
The attraction of the road less travelled and the place less visit... full info
sarah
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That's a pretty small horse...