Category: Travel

Aimee tends to send out e-mail on our trips. Here’s her first update. It’s true about what you hear regarding Beijing’s rapid changes. Traffic is unbelievable, cranes are everywhere, tearing down a lot of old buildings. Lots of bilingual signs, which is good since I don’t read characters (those kind, anyway). Sort of like someone who gets the face lift, boob job, nose job, lipo, etc in anticipation for a class reunion. The 2008 Olympics…

From the better late than never category, here’s a video story of our trip to India that Aimee put together. This has been online for a while but I failed to link to it in my blog. There’s narration withthe pictures so hopefully all will enjoy.

The photos from our trip are now available online. You can see them at http://www.kellyford.org/iiepics and hopefully the titles give a clue of what you are viewing in the pictures.

Driving from Dehra Dun to Delhi we had loads of time to spend in the car. Aimee provided a bit of audio description of the scenery as we arrived in Delhi.

Driving back to Delhi we recorded some impressions of India. Listen to our thoughts. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

We are now back in London after a 30 hour trip from Dehra Dun to London. We weren’t sure what we were going to do on our last day in India but the airlines decided for us. We left our Hotel in Dehra Dun at about 10A yesterday to head for the Jolly Grant airport outside of Dehradun. As Gomer Pyle used to say, “Surprise, surprise, surprise!” We no more than got out of our…

Travel books often speak of the “road” to this or that destination as if the road itself is part of the journey. Most of my travel has been in the U.S. where there’s really not much difference, aside from where you end up, between I-5, I-15 or the many other highways one can take. What you experience along the way is largely the same erector set-experience no matter the road. You’ll find a motel, gas…

Grafton street in Dublin is one of the main tourist destinations. On a chilly Sunday evening back in November we walked around a bit. Listen to the sounds of Dublin.

On 11/26 we were in Dublin. Here’s some audio from the day. Things start out with us walking around the outside of Trinity college. The two quiet sections are inside the college in a room with the Book of Kells and another large library room known as the Long Room that has hundreds of rare books. You then hear us walk through the college gates, part of a Dublin city tour and more stops on…

Imagine me sitting down to write about food. I mean honestly I’d not win any awards of the diversity of food that I find interesting. Still the food here has been a tantalizing mixture of spices and flavors. We’ve eaten six dinners thus far and five of mine have been Indian cuisine. Admitedly, largely variations on chicken and rice with some naan bread tossed in for good measure. On Saturday night in Agra we dined…