June, 2007

• 16 June

  Jerusalem Photo Log

  http://rishiray.smugmug.com/gallery/3011865_ioZPA#163516912_j8rCK
• 15 June

  Floating in the Dead Sea? Don’t open your eyes!!

  Getting to the Dead Sea is fairly easy – in fact it is quite easy and you can approach from a number of directions in Israel. From Jerusalem (39km from Northern Dead Sea) From Eilat (220km from Southern Dead Sea) From Tel Aviv (98km from Northern Dead Sea). Since, I was situated in Tel Aviv, then it meant taking a …
• 15 June

  Masada and the Dead Sea……

  

  So leaving from the Dan Tel Aviv was a chore in itself this morning, since I had to rise quite early as Masada was a good two hours away from Tel Aviv. So on the way was pretty uneventful except for the young soldiers you pass on the road with those huge machine guns. Once you get to Masada there …
• 9 June

  Prague 2007: Last Day additional note – 9th June, 2007

  Well it has been a great time on this trip.. and i although i said would blog from the road.. it has been quite the busy time in the last couple countries. Im finally done here with this eurotrip and as usual it has been a blast. I have about 6 hours on the train from here to Frankfurt. Of …
• 7 June

  Getting into Prague..

  Taking the train from Vienna to Prague was quite uneventful, of course travelling second class in the trains wasn’t the greatest thing in the world but we were comfortable. Now once you got into the Nadrazi Holesovice train station in Prague, we got hit with a bit of culture shock, since the station was run down with little tourist facilities. It …
• 6 June

  How could I forget Vienna sausages?

  Growing up in Trinidad, the only thing that Vienna would trigger would be memories of nitrite soaked Vienna Sausages. However, Vienna was/is one of the great European cultural sites, berthing numerous famous artists and composers whose works many of us recognize even today.  And although it served as a key battleground during many medieval wars, it was comparatively untouched by …
• 5 June

  Getting into Salzburg….

  The first big thing about Salzburg is that it is the birthplace of Mozart, and to people who live in Salzburg, this is a big thing! One would easily get this question wrong in Final Jeopardy. In my brain, it would go something like this: Alex Trebek: “What was the birthplace of this composer who wrote every piece of Well …
• 2 June

  Ohio to Toronto to Frankfurt

  Well long day coming in from Abercrombie and Fitch in Ohio. The whitest place in terms of people, I have ever seen. It is almost like a cult there, in that everyone wears the same clothing, they look the same, all the guys are thin and wear the T-shirts and shorts, the girls are all desperately thin in general and …

April, 2007

• 7 April

  Nights in Tortola…and maybe a nice commute…

  Sometimes we forget how nice, things are in our neck of the woods. For instance, while people in the Islands will complain about the work, the people and the slow pace of progress; there are some amazing things that one can take for granted i.e. A cool night breeze with the smell of the ocean Clear nights drinking good rum …
• 4 April

  Went travelling through the Puerto Rican Rainforest and through some Forts in Old San Juan

  http://rishiray.smugmug.com/gallery/2691967_CZkyC#142556198_uDsxw