Category: travel series
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Petra, Jordan – part 2
After seeing the famous “Treasury”, we continued with our walk through the gorge which gradually widens and open up to a vast area. I, like many people, thought that the only thing to see in Petra is the Treasury. It is the highlight of the site but there is an entire city on the other…
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Petra, Jordan – part 1
After the business meetings in the Dead Sea Resorts, a group of my colleagues organized a visit to Petra including an overnight stay. Petra is a historical city in southern Jordan which lies in a basin among the mountains which form the eastern flank of Arabah valley that run from the Dead Sea to the Gulf of Aqaba. It was about 2 hours…
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Our trips 2017, part 2
Dear Readers, It has been a tradition of this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. In Part 1, we posted photos of places we visited in the second half of 2017. Here are the places we visited in the first half. As you will see, we…
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Our trips 2017, part 1
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our first post of 2018. It is a tradition of this blog to take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. Overall, we traveled less in 2017 than 2016, at least in terms of distance traveled. We did not leave Europe after our…
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Our trips 2016, part 2
Dear Readers, Happy New Year ! This is our second post of 2017. It is almost a tradition of this blog – the first two posts take a look back at some of the places we visited last year. I(Chris) had the good fortune of having visited the capitals of 6 countries – Japan, Italy, Russia, Korea, Spain…
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Russian art in Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val, part 5
In the last few posts, I have been putting up photos of Russian modern art that are on display in the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val (Третьяковская галерея на Крымском Валу) – a branch of the State Tretyakov Gallery. This is part 5, the last one – various sculptural pieces scattered around the gallery. Don’t miss part 1, part 2,…