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KUALA LUMPUR, MALAYSIA

March 3, 2018 by strohohanatravelogue

We survived Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam remarkably unscathed and have now landed in the markedly more civilized city of Kuala Lumpur (at least, in my humble opinion). The capital of Malaysia and home to almost 8 million people in the greater metropolitan area. The first impression that struck me was how clean and modern everything was from the airport to the highways. The road signs even looked distinctly ‘western’ in appearance. Our Airbnb dwelling was described as a ‘zen […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: Blue Cab Malaysia, ER Care, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Negara Zoo, Petronas Towers

HO CHI MINH CITY, VIETNAM

January 9, 2018 by strohohanatravelogue

Greetings from Vietnam! A year ago, it never even crossed my mind that I would utter those words in my lifetime, much less a year later. Our flight from Hong Kong was pleasant and uneventful but the long queue for the visa application at Tan Son Nhat Airport in Ho Chi Minh City was a bit of a pain. Even though we had applied on-line and brought the ‘official paperwork’ and the tiny little (2″x 3″) photos that were requested […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: District 1, Ho Chi Minh, Ho Chi Minh Traffic, Tan Son Nhat, Vietnam Visa

HONG KONG (China?)

December 29, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

During the ‘unplanning’ of our international journey last spring, my daughter, Scarlet, expressed a desire to see a Giant Panda preferably in China. We had seen the documentary ‘Born in China’ and this no doubt piqued her curiosity a bit. Wow, I thought. How are we going to accomplish that feat? Tiffany researched Giant Pandas and found several (expensive) guided tours and zoos that featured Giant Panda exhibits in mainland China. Hong Kong also boasted a theme park with Giant […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: Brick Lane Hong Kong, China, Handpan Player, Hong Kong, Mini Hotel Causeway Bay, Nutcracker HK Ballet, Ocean Park Pandas, Santa Visits Hong Kong

EGYPT: TOMBS, TEMPLES & TUTANKHAMUN

December 25, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

Our visit to Egypt was like a whirlwind. Three days in Cairo at Le Meridien to get acclimated, 12 days in the South Sinai Peninsula (Dahab) at the Red C Villas, 3 days in Luxor at Mara House and 3 final days in Cairo at Giza. Our Giza Airbnb dwelling was literally a few blocks away from and faced the pyramids! On our first day back in Cairo, we rode horses (even Grace had her own horse) around the pyramids […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: Airbnb, Cairo, Horseback, Luxor, Mara House, Sphinx

Dahab, Egypt on the Red Sea

December 8, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

As we continue eastward on our year of adventure; we have now left behind the part of the world that we are the most familiar with in terms of family history, culture, language, food, religion, etc. Our first destination in these stranger waters is Egypt. For the record, Tiffany and Scarlet did travel to Egypt this past spring. Scarlet chose Egypt as the place that she wanted to visit for a 10 day mother-daughter bonding on her 10th birthday. The […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: Angry Camel, Dahab, Dahab Taxi, Egypt, Street Goats

88 days in Europe

December 3, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

I started to write this post on the 88th day of our European adventure but Tiffany & I did not get to finish it until we were already 5 days into our Egypt trip. I am amazed at how quickly the first three months of our trip abroad has elapsed. In our ‘unplanning’ of this adventure before we left Maui, we had anticipated spending the allowed 90 days in the EU – Schengen Area with the normal visa. We booked […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog, Tiffany's Blog • Tags: 88 days in Europe, Airbnb, Aquarium Malta, El Rey Leon, Esplora Malta, Family Interview, NILE AIR, WOW

Arrivederci to Sicily, Italy…for now

November 19, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

Thursday, November 17, is our last day in Balestrate, Sicily which is located in the Palermo Provinciale. We have spent 15 days in the ‘baglio’ (Italian courtyard farmhouse) which is surprisingly the longest that we have stayed in one place since starting our journey 2-1/2 months ago. We now have visited 4 countries (Portugal, Spain, Germany & Italy). Living out of suitcases with a relatively small allowance of space for each of us + school supplies has been challenging and […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: DHL, Poste Italiane, Shipping Internationally, Terme Segestane

Germany’s not so final… resting place

November 1, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

As some of you may know who read my recent blog post, I intended to take my family and visit the local village of Roβtal (Rosstal) which is located very near to Nuremburg (about 20 minutes by train). There is a cemetery in Roβtal where my grandfather (my father’s dad) is buried. Before I left for my German high school trip in 1971, my father gave me a little hand-drawn map that showed where the headstone was located within the cemetery. […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: Albrecht Dürer Haus, Cemetery, germany, Roβtal, S-4 Train

Nuremburg, Germany…my return to the Fatherland

October 28, 2017 by strohohanatravelogue

My deep roots are German on both sides of my family so this country understandably has a familiar and comfortable ‘feel’ to me personally. I last visited Nuremburg when I was a senior in high school (way back in the time machine in the year 1975). I was a regional winner in a national high school German language contest and the prize was a trip to Germany along with several dozen other high school students from all over the country. […]

Categories: Bernie's Blog • Tags: germany, Kinder Museum, Nuremburg, U-bahn, Waldorf School

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