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Continue reading →: Old Town. Riga
The OLD wall.. when they didn’t need it any more people just used it as one of the walls in their house. It’s a really big area. Some really old buildings. Some that make you appreciate our Architecture Review Board. Lots of restaurants and tourist shops. I’m waiting to see…
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Continue reading →: Driving from Vilnius to Riga
Oh dear, today was a long day. We had a 3 hour drive from Vilnius to Riga, but made two cool, but longish stops. The first was The Hills of Crosses. No one knows why people started thinking of this hill as sacred. But for years people have put up…
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Continue reading →: Lilacs and a castle
Spring comes a little later to Pacific Grove then Pleasanton, and the lilacs had just started to bloom when we left.I love lilacs. They are my third favorite flower. Well Lithuania must be on the same schedule as PG. oWe drove today out to where there is a Medieval castle…
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Continue reading →: Vilnius..churches
What a lovely day. Went to the Peter and Paul church..one of the few that stayed open during the occupation. It’s almost all white inside. Some pics: Peter was a fisherman, so his boat hangs in the middle of the church…with a Viking twist. Though most of the statues have…
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Continue reading →: We are in Vilnius
We spent 27 hours in airplanes and airports, but somehow it didn’t seem terrible, we had a long flight (and seats that lay flat) on the seven hour flight from Chicago to Frankfurt. And I tried out a combination of Melatonin, Ativan and Advil. Both of got 5 good hours…
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Continue reading →: And we are all packed
Once more please get some cubes to pack in. We always use them, but will love them a lot this trip. We are in each hotel for 3 nights. Which is long enough to unpack if it is easy AND with the cubes it is oh-so-easy. Oh my goodness Word…
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Continue reading →: Dreaming of our next trip
I love this stage of traveling. Where all the details are done (A BIG shout out to Max for getting us a visa to Russia) and now we are just in the dreamland of trying to imagine the trip and what we want out of it. I have finished most…
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Continue reading →: HOME
Well..we made it home and slept on and off for the last two days. We left our hotel in Cairo at 11pm on Wednesday night, and after 31 hours of traveling arrived her at 5 on Thursday. All I can say it that was an amazing adventure.. Being…
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Continue reading →: Saqqara–the Old Kingdom
so Our last day in Egypt and we drove out past the Pyramids to the capital of the Old Kingdom (2000 BC) –Memphis and then went to Sakaara–which was their buriel ground. Ramses II had to put up a statue in Memphis…along with almost everywhere else. This one fell down…
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Continue reading →: Islamic Cairo
We returned to Cairo yesterday and went to a Souk… this is a huge street market..We knew what they were because we rode through one in a carriage in Luxor…which now I think about it was a really strange mixing of cultures… anyhow they are fun and crazy and crowded…shops…
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