The Travel Blog

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I flew out of Pamukkale bright and early the next morning and landed in Istanbul around 7am. My room was not yet ready (surprise!) so I took this guy’s cue and had a rest here.

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The Pamukkale travertine terraces at sunset

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I’m finally sorting through the thousands of photos and videos from my trip, so there will eventually be further posting here. 

Watching the ocean rise to level out with the boardwalk in Marsalforn Bay several times a day was an incredible thing to see.

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Iceland was land of the panorama

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water puppies!

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water puppies!

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The trip around Iceland ended not with a bang, but with a very special kind of thud. Had a bridge support collapse underneath us on our second-last night. Thank goodness the other side held or we’d have rolled. (at Akureyri, Iceland (Skjaldarvik))

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Iceland! How cute are you?!

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Iceland is horrible, never go there ❄️

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chased a sunset for the duration of my 3.5 hour flight to Iceland 

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More Herakut in Berlin! (at Treptower Park)

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In the last two weeks I’ve driven over 7000km. When I said I love driving, what I guess I really meant is I love driving my jeep. 🚙💨

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at least 40 000 skeletons. at least one of every human bone in the chandelier. so glad I made it to the ‘Church of Bones’ this time around 💀 (at Sedlec Ossuary)

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I got a ticket today for driving through a small pedestrian zone that was not at all clearly marked. There were actually two officers and a paddy wagon camped out there, making me think that this happens quite often - which would not surprise me given the central location (and therefore plenty of foreign tourists), traffic density in the area, and the fact that the part of the sign I had apparently ignored that specified it as a pedestrian zone was written. In a language I do not speak. The visual component looks like the fucking pedestrian crossing signs from home.

Anyway, bless the exchange rate for my $24.95 ticket

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In the last few days I have driven more than 4000km, with 1200km more to go tomorrow alone. But it has been worthwhile - how else would I have found myself on top of a mountain plateau in Norway at 1am with sunlight still lighting my way?

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so this happened… (my first Michelin star dining experience) ⭐️  (at RON gastrobar)

steak tartare w/hazelnuts, spring onions & Dijon foam German Wagyu burger w/patatas bravas, crispy potatoes & tarragon-sorrel cream sweetbread w/Indian boemboe and horn of plenty

It was a semi-open kitchen so I spent my whole meal watching the cooks work. The one nearest me knew he was being watched, and began paying nearly as much attention to me.