Our day in Damascus was slow, easy and relaxing. We wandered again around the old city, visiting the palace of As`ad Pasha al-Azem, the 18th century governor of Damascus. It was bigger and more elabrate architecturally than its smaller cousin that I wrote about in Hama, but the latter had …
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Trip to Upper Egypt & Sudan—رحلة إلى الصعيد و السودان
This is coming a bit late, but I wanted to get some photos up from our recent trip to Upper Egypt and the Sudan. Adrienne has a more of the story here.
New Year’s Resolutions—عزائم للعام الجديد
My apologies to those who had been following my blog and were disappointed to find that I wasn’t updating since last spring. My access to the internet over the summer while I was bopping about North America was somewhat limited and it became difficult to get back in the habit …
Collecting places—مجموعة الأمكنة
There’s something insidious about this website (click on the map to go to it) that will generate such a map for you based on the states you click, designed for you to be able to show off the states you’ve visited (there is another version for the world traveler). And, …