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 [...]
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Caen Day 2
Posted by dkendon on October 12, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by dkendon on October 8, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by dkendon on September 13, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by dkendon on September 6, 2011
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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 [...]
Posted by dkendon on September 2, 2011
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