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Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #5
Day Seven After breakfast and a short beer run (we were on our 15th case of the local Efes beer – which was obviously very tasty) we left the harbor to find another quiet cove. A swim and a nap and a delicious lunch of green beans with tomatoes and bulgur – and we were
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #8
Day Eleven The following morning we returned to Olympus and played 18 holes of frisbee golf using each one of the buildings ruins as a hole. It was great fun. We did not have time to see Chimera, the place where the first Olympic torch was lit from eternal flames that rise from the earth
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #7
Day Nine The next day we went off to the village to buy a Saint Nicholas wall hanging we had eyed the day before. We went back to one of the only two carpet shops in the village – Gordes carpet. We found the owner, Kadriye, who told us that the St. Nicholas carpet was
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #6
Day Eight Our next destination was Kale and Kekova. We found a lovely cove in the morning to breakfast in and had a swim. We sailed to the area called Kekova and sailed along about 20 feet from the coast viewing ruins of ancient Lycia. Steps emerge from the sea, wharfs, churches, houses, bath houses
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage
Day Seven After breakfast and a short beer run (we were on our 15th case of the local Efes beer – which was obviously very tasty) we left the harbor to find another quiet cove. A swim and a nap and a delicious lunch of green beans with tomatoes and bulgur – and we were
Our Gundogan Blue Voyage #4
Day Six An excursion to Patara, Xanthos and Letoon was on our schedule for the day but the heat of the sun convinced most of our group to remain on the sea. Only four of us went on the journey driven by a local driver. We came first to Letoon, a small ancient Lycian city
Oaxaca Interlude, Mexico
Oaxaca Interlude – Mexico By Allan Taylor A church on every corner The Zócalo, Christmas Eve, 10pm Chrissy and I were engulfed in a sea of happy families filling all available space behind the roped off streets of the procession route. Each church (and there seems to be one every few city blocks) had its
Massage in Chiang Mai
I was Chiang Mai in the north of Thailand near the “Golden Triangle”. Chiang Mai is famous for hill tribes, pagodas, trekking and Thai Massage schools. My trekking hopes were dashed as I’d sprained my ankle on the way from the train station to the bus station in Bangkok. The old city is surrounded by
Iguaçú Falls, Brazil
Celebrating my birthday in a different country every year has become an inevitable tradition. This year, I chose to spend it in South America’s Iguaçú Falls. Without fail, Iguaçú Falls ranks up there as one of Mother Nature’s greatest creations. Nearly four times wider and slightly taller than Niagara, Iguaçú Falls is located at the
Fortaleza, Brazil – October 2000
Natal Our BootsnAll visitors I must start off with a quick hello to Bart, Ester and Jeff, BootsnAll readers who popped down to see us last month. They seemed to enjoy the city and beaches and I suffered from some particularly bad hangovers. I have some more BootnsAll people arriving this month and I am
Chris’s Virtual Vacations – Gatlinburg, TN: Day Three
Day Three – Above Gatlinburg 10:00am: Breakfast at the Copper Kettle Pancake House We started our third day with breakfast at the Copper Kettle Pancake House, one of approximately a thousand restaurants in Gatlinburg with the word “pancake” in its name. We both had the Mountain Breakfast, which includes eggs any way you like them
Chris’s Virtual Vacations
I am a writer and web developer living in Lawrenceville, GA. I hold a B.A. in English from Georgia State University, am pursuing an M.A. in writing at Kennesaw State University, and am the author of fifteen published short stories, several Internet-published travelogues, and two unpublished novels. There are few things in life I love