“Good morning. What is the purpose of your visit to the United Kingdom?” Asked the British passport control official as we prepared to board the Eurostar in Brussels for London. “To see the premiere of the new James Bond movie,” I replied. “Well I hope that isn’t all you’re coming to London for!” he retorted. […]
Archives for October 2015
In Bruges
Belgium was another bonus country for us on this trip. Our wonderful friends from Chicago, Katie and Jared, were going to be coming to London in October and wanted to see us for the second part of their trip. Belgium was one of the countries that was proposed since it would allow them to avoid […]
I Love Paris in the Fall
After visa issues thwarted our plans to go to Azerbaijan for the three-day period after Georgia and before we were due to meet friends in Belgium, Chris decided he would plan a surprise trip for us during this interim. My suspicions were leading me to somewhere like Dubai or Cairo, but I should have known […]
Georgia On My Mind
Georgia (the country) was one of the fifty countries on our list for our one-year RTW trip, but one that I knew very little about and had pretty nonexistent expectations for. That all changed when, in the effort to minimize the amount of Russian food we had while in Russia, we stumbled upon a Georgian […]
Talking Turkey
Chris and I had already spent three wonderful days in Istanbul at the tail end of our honeymoon in 2013. We saw the major sights, ate copious amounts of kebabs, spent way too much money on towels and bathrobes, and had our skin buffed to a shine at a Turkish bath. Since we had recently […]