Not Constantinople

I originally designed this site to share photos of my trip to Turkey and Bulgaria in 2005 (hence the name) But as I'm currently living in London, this seems like the perfect place to share general updates and specific antecdotes...without running up my phone bill.

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Thursday, December 20, 2012

More than 5 YEARS later!

I never actually forgot about this blog - I just got completely separated from it.  I lost a link / forgot a password, who knows.    I even went looking for it about a year ago with no luck.   Who knew the secret for finding my way in again lay only in following the ancient link from my CouchSurfing profile while simultaneously being logged in to Google Chrome?  It's great when new technology opens old doors.  Facebook has pretty much made this blog even more irrelevant than it always was, but this page is a little more 'mine' so I think I'll start showing it a little more TLC.

As this is a travel blog, let's do a quick run down of my travels for the last 5+ years, shall we?   For sanity's sake, I'm going to just stick to the international travel.  Notice the sharp drop off that begins in 2009...

August 2007 - Italy with my sister & friend - Rome, Florence and Pisa
November 2007 - Italy: Venice (for work) Padua for sightseeing and CouchSurfing
October 2007 - Netherlands - Amsterdam - touring with my Aussie travel buddy
October 2007 - UK - Bath & Stonehenge with Mom, Diane & Teresa
November 2007 - Spain - Barcelona (also with the Aussie)
January 2008 - Ireland with the lovely Nikki - Dublin & Cork
April 2008 - Austria - Vienna (CS)
April 2008 - Portugal - Porto (CS)
May 2008 - Scotland - Edinburgh - Couchsurfing w/ my Dad!
May 2008 - Germany: Goettingen & Cologne (for work & couchsurfing)
May 2008 - Czech Republic - Prague w/ Erica
June 2008 - Czech Republic - Liberec (for work)
June 2008 - Oxford, UK (with Mr. Lensing)
July 2008 - Canada & Alaska with Stephanie & family
August 2008 - Ireland with Veronica - drove 'the long way' from Galway to Dublin
December 2008 - UK - London (High Wycombe actually)
January 2009 - Sweden - Gothenburg (for work)
May 2009 - Germany:  Goettingen (for work) / UK - Midlands / London (for work)
May 2010 - UK - Midlands (for work) / France - Lille - CouchSurfing awesomeness with the lovely Mariam
June 2011 - France - Paris / Spain - Madrid
January/February 2012 - Australia - Sydney, Melbourne, Perth (for work)
December 2012 - Germany - Munich & Nuremburg

That is a fairly accurate list, but I'm sure I've left something off.     The next time I feel like procrastinating my post-travel laundry (as I am right now) I'll go about uploading some pictures.