Caen Day 2

Europeans have chocolate with everything.  You can get Special K cereal with chocolate flakes in it.  Diet-conscious small flakes, obviously. I ran in to the city centre and raided the tourism office for EVERY brochure.  Then I went next door to William’s old house. This was one of the coolest things I’ve seen on the [...]

A Day in Cologne

I was given a map at the campground – they cost €0.20 at the information centre – and went looking for historic sites.   There was a large demonstration starting in one of the market squares – I couldn’t translate it all – something about security?  I kept wandering. There were a lot of immigrants [...]

Athens Day 2

Athens has a strong communist movement, judging by all the propaganda. I went to the Archaeological Museum.  Entry is €7.  For that you get a crapload of statues. There was one statue that looked like a woman that had to answer the phone when she was in the bath, but this is a familyblog, so I [...]

Istanbul Day 2

EUROPE IS SO EXPENSIVE!!!  Any donations would be gratefully received – send them to my poste restante in London – behind the hot water pipes, 3rd washroom along, Victoria Statıon. I started by going to the Spice Market. Some places were selling lanterns.  At first glance I thought they would look nice on the Christmas [...]

Cairo Day 2

The heat in Egypt is a more pleasant dry heat.  I went for an early morning run and the temperature wasn’t bad at all.  However it was Eid so I had to go around all the crowds at 6am, and every Egyptian ‘man’ thinks he can say whatever he likes to a woman, and the [...]

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