2018 travel
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Berlin
Follow @neuage Tweet to @neuage Holland was a hoot. (previous Europe post) We’ll be back. We said that six times before and sure enough we went back. Seems as if we have a January/February 2020 stay lined up. We did a winter stay two years ago; not sure if it is best for bike riding. Continue reading
Altona Park, Berlin, Brandenburg Gate, Cecilienhof, Checkpoint Charlie, Crown Prince Wilhelm, East Germany museum, Erich Honecker, Germany, Joseph Stalin, Kladow, Kleine Cornelia, Leonid Brezhnev, Peacock Island, Perlin-Spandau, Potsdam, Potsdam Conference, President Harry Truman, Rathaus Spandau, reciprocal health care agreement, Schlachtensee, Spandau Castle, St. Nicholas Church, The Berlin Wall, The Citadel, the Holländerhäuser, The Margraves of Brandenburg, URBAN NATION, Urban Nation Museum, Utrecht Centraal, Wall Museum East Side Gallery, Wannsee, Winston Churchill -
Utrecht
Utrecht (This was written 22/08/18 – and posted mid-December 2018. How time flies) We have a clip over at YouTube – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fBJhZgMqB6A The Netherlands is like my third or fourth home. USA would have to be first as I was born there and spent about 33-years before nesting in Australia, then nine-years back to New Continue reading
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London2018
Kuala Lumpur to London 07/August/2018 11 am – One hour into our flight, Australia all around; sky, land, air, Australian clouds drifting by, sure they are foreign, ruffled refurbished refugee clouds. This sky again – millions of years in the making, I have seen it before, multiple times. Machine learning sky, reformatting to my projections; Continue reading
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Amritsar
Amritsar For some reason, forget why now, we decided we had enough train journeys in India, so we booked round-trip flights between Delhi and Amritsar. The cost was $71.50 round trip for each of us, the train would have taken us six-hours, the plane less that an hour. Getting to the airport was easy, only Continue reading
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Kerala
Kerala is a state on India’s tropical Malabar Coast. Did you know: Kerala has the highest life expectancy at birth (74.9) during 2010-14 among all Indian states. wikipedia.org Narda writing Terrell writing Thiruvananthapuram 20 – February Our hostess is an Indian Jessica. Softly spoken, sweet, helpful and intelligent, with long dark hair and a gentle Continue reading
airbnb, Aussie dollar, Cheranallur, Chinese Fishing Nets, Dhobi Khana, Fort Kochi, god of cricket, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow, Kerala, Kingfisher beer, Kovalam, Kundannoor Bridge i, LuLu Mall, Netflix, North Gate, Panampilly Nagar, Panangad Island, Periyar river, Ray Kurzweil, Sachin Tendulkar, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Tamil villagers, The Black Panther, Thiruvananthapuram, Thiruvananthapuram Zoo, tuk tuk, Uber, Valiathura Beach., Varapuzha, Varapuzha bridge, Veli Street, Vembanad, Villa Maya Heritage Restaurant, Vrindavan Restaurant, Yuval Harari -
Pune
Pune: wow, so much to say. We went there to meet up with Sidhee and her little sister Gargee. This was a highlight for us. In our first meeting, Sidhee arranged for us to meet a group of her uni friends. They are all studying Computer Engineering. The conversations were so interesting, ranging from their Continue reading
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Mumbai
Mumbai 08 – 13 February 2018Narda writing in italics Terrell – whatever is left Hopefully you caught the one before – The fantastic Blue City of Jodhpur https://neuage.me/2018/02/23/jodhpur/ Things that are surprising. Toilet paper and tissues are cheaper in Australia. Indian food is so good. It’s better than in Australia. Lots better, consistently. That might Continue reading
Apollo Bun, Bentley’s Hotel, Bombay, Cafe-Mondegar, Domino’s pizza, Elephanta Island, John Lennon and Oko, Kala Ghoda Arts Festival, King George V and Queen Mary, Leopold Caf, Mario Miranda, Mumbai, mustard oil, Oberoi Trident, Rajasthan, Taj Mahal Palace Hotel, The Gate of India, Unesco World Heritage Site -
Jodhpur
Jodhpur 05-07/February/2018 We arrived via Indian Railroad from Jaisalmer last night about 11 pm but after getting settled; including having toast with peanut butter and jam (if I were ever caught by a hostile regime and I said I was not an American, and they put out peanut butter and jelly (jam) I would be Continue reading
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Jaisalmer
01 – 04 February 2018 Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India We left Jaipur at midnight to Jaisalmer taking a 2nd class sleeper. First class was filled when we booked three months earlier. Narda took the upper bunk and seemed to sleep more than me. A woman in the bunk across from me snored louder than anyone I Continue reading
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Jaipur
Jaipur in the state of Rajasthan 25 January, Thursday Narda slept most of the way from Agra to Jaipur. We had first class sleepers which were comfortable. I sat up the whole way (six hours) and played with some Photoshop stuff. We got to Jaipur after eleven pm and took the first tuk tuk driver Continue reading
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