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Moving to the south

Like yesterday, I woke up at 0300 due to sleeping early.  But fortunately I was able to fall asleep again until 0645.  I packed and headed out to repeat yesterday’s breakfast of the burek-like pastry with a touch of hot water/syrup.  That wasn’t quite enough for me so I ordered a foldover cheese pizza which […]

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Daytrip to Amedi & Lalish

Interesting breakfast With a departure time with Khalid of 0800, I headed out for breakfast at 0715.  It was drizzling.  Not many places were open.  Kebab would seem to be the popular breakfast perhaps in an hour’s time but right now, all I could find were some pastries. I ordered one of the large pastries […]

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Moving to the north

Moving to Duhok Today I move to Duhok (also spelt as Dohuk).  It is close to the Syrian and Turkish borders and at this time, Syrian refugees are streaming in to escape from Turkish attacks in Syria under the Spring Peace operation. The information provided by my NGO contacts suggest that Duhok is safe.  After […]

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Daytrip to Rawanduz

The plan for the day was to make a daytrip to Rawanduz from Erbil.  The information available suggested that I take public transport in the form of shared taxis to Soran and then change to a private taxi. After breakfast, I headed out around 0830 to hail a taxi to the shared taxi station.  I […]

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Exploring Erbil

First taste of Erbil I wandered out after a leisurely breakfast for my first taste of Erbil.  I found my way to the citadel area about 20 mins walk away.  The route from my hotel was through areas selling unattractive things like hardware. Around the base of the citadel was the city’s main square and […]

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A new adventure in Iraqi Kurdistan

Preparing for Iraqi Kurdistan My flight to a new adventure starting in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan departs at 1835 this evening.  I thought I could do a bit of sightseeing this morning.  But this is a familiar city and I’d just be largely repeating myself.  And I have two late night departures coming in the next […]

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Cheapest intercontinental travel

Exploring Asia In my various stays in Istanbul, I’ve never explored the Asian shores, except for getting to Sabiha Gokcen Airport (SAW).  I’ve been close to the various parts on the ferries, but that’s it.  Today, I thought I’d remedy that. I walked to the ferry terminal at Eminonu and found the pier for Kadikoy.  […]

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Sightseeing Fails

Locating places Sightseeing wasn’t a priority today as I had been to Istanbul many times.  I thought I’d locate a few places to smoothen the way for later: First up, I found the Eminonu bus stop for getting to the airport.  While I expected it be directly across the multi-lane road from where I had […]

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Gateway to my next adventure

Flying out of Suvarnabhumi My flight to Istanbul was scheduled for 0925.  Istanbul is the gateway to my next adventure in Iraqi Kurdistan and then Sharm el Sheikh.  I woke at 0545 and left the hotel at 0630 for Suvarnabhumi Airport.  I had pessimistically allowed an hour’s ride on Grab to get to the airport, […]

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Token sightseeing

Token sightseeing Having been to Bangkok three times in recent years, I didn’t feel like doing any sightseeing.  But as Kim hadn’t been here (in earnest) for a while I thought I should show him the nearby sights. We set out after breakfast at 0930.  It was stinking hot when we walked to the Chao […]

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