Travel

Prague

Thursday, June 27 After the train dropped us in Prague, we were discouraged by the 15 minute wait for an Uber, so we opted to walk the 20 minutes to our hotel which was 50m from the Charles Bridge. I was already tired so when we had to walk another 20 minutes for dinner, wait […]

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Berlin

Tuesday, June 25 Although flying to Europe is technically fewer hours than flying to Australia, but it just seems longer. We met DH2’s friends at the airport (friend from Utah was on sabbatical) and we rook a train into Mitte. Our dinner on the river consisted of a curry dog and beer. The soccer match

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UAE

Sunday, May 26 Sweet sleep, a non spicy nibble at breakfast, and a long rest resulted in the best I had felt on the trip. My goal was to have one day that I was well. The conference hotel was Conrad (Hilton) and very fancy. Walking on the sidewalk in the UAE 111 degree heat,

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Taj Mahal

Friday, May 24 Still nauseous, DH2 called an Uber rather than us taking the train as scheduled. Thank you. We traveled 4 hours plus a stop for food of which I did not partake. Arriving at the Oberoi, we snaked through a lush entry to the entrance of a beautiful hotel with monkeys playing in

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Jim Corbett National Park

Tuesday, May 21 We hired the trek driver, Krishna, to continue his service so he drove us to Jim Corbett national park. Along the way we stopped for lychee, bananas, and mangoes, marveled at the cows, and for butter paneer lunch. Our first safari had the most exotic animals. We glimpsed a tiger moving through

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