Dusty Globe http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe Just another Blog.newsok.com weblog Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:04:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5 Around Chamonix http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/08/14/around-chamonix/ http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/08/14/around-chamonix/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 11:04:29 +0000 katya http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/?p=1308 Brévent at night
Mont Blanc at sunset
Sunset over Mont Blanc
Alps at sunset
Sunset over Brévent
Moon rising over the Alps
Moon rising over the Alps
Moon rising over the Alps

More photos from Chamonix…

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/08/14/around-chamonix/feed/ 0 Adventures in European Roadtrips http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/08/08/adventures-in-european-roadtrips/ http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/08/08/adventures-in-european-roadtrips/#comments Mon, 08 Aug 2011 13:21:58 +0000 katya http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/?p=1291 Chamonix, France, It isn’t every day that a friend offers to sell you a Mercedes for next to nothing. In our case, it was a great looking beige 1992 Mercedes diesel–just the car to take us on a road trip through France and Spain. Our problems began well before we embarked on the trip. In France you need a control technique sticker (the equivalent of the car inspection in the US, or MOT in the UK), a Carte Grise (registration), and insurance.…

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Notre Dame
Sacre Coeur
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View from Montmarte
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I set of to Egypt on a little more than a whim, a possibly naïve desire to see post revolution Egypt, and just maybe be able to tell peoples’ stories and make some sort of difference.

As a tourist I have been warmly welcomed here, but as a tourist and a non-Arabic speaker, most of the people I have interacted with have been in the tourist industry, which has made it difficult for me to get a full picture of views on post-Mubarak Egypt.…

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I spent most of yesterday diving, but unfortunately those photos will have to wait, since I was shooting on a film camera (trust me, you aren’t missing much; most of my energy was focused on remembering how to dive, not on focusing the camera).…

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When I was in India last year I made the mistake of trying to ride “ordinary” buses in an attempt to see India as a local would. This time, remembering the horrors of the Indian bus experience, I had booked a first class bus ticket, and so full of confidence in the “deluxe” ticket I had secured, I turned down the Valium and headed for the bus.…

]]> http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/03/17/overland-egypt/feed/ 0 Valley of the Kings http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/03/17/valley-of-the-kings/ http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/2011/03/17/valley-of-the-kings/#comments Thu, 17 Mar 2011 12:20:14 +0000 katya http://blog.newsok.com/dustyglobe/?p=1240 I spent most of yesterday visiting the west side of Luxor, which includes the famous Valley of the Kings. The Valley of the Kings is where many of the pharaohs, such as Tutankhamun, from the New Kingdom of ancient Egypt were buried.

Valley of the Kings (I wasn’t allowed to take photos inside the tombs)

The west side of Luxor also includes the Valley of the Queens, several temples, and the village where the workers who built the tombs lived.…

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Citadel of Qaitbay
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Modern Library of Alexandria
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