http://wp.joeyeager.com Touring the world one city at a time Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:11:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Istanbul (formerly called Constantinople and Byzantium) is the only city in the world that straddles two continents (Europe and Asia) and has been the capital of 4 different empires.  Check out Istanbul's Wikipedia article for background on its long, illustrious history.  For more than two millenia it has been a point where East meets ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=208 ...and pollution capital of the current World. Ok ok, so it doesn't even make the top 5 most polluted cities, but the blanket of smog over Athens was horrendous. I had coughing and sneezing problems the entire time and couldn’t wait to get home to the “clean” air of London. ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=178 So much to say, so little time... That has been our problem the last few months.  Joe has been travelling for work like a maniac, and we have visited Istanbul, Cairo, Luxor and Atlanta in between.  I also accepted a job offer with Kimberly-Clark (yipee!) and did some house hunting ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=197 We couldn't leave Europe without first scoping out the art in Florence and seeing what all the fuss was about with the canals in Venice.  Let me preface by saying we had only arrived back home from Athens 4 days before we set off for this trip, which explains a lot. We ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=186 Normally when we travel to a new place we struggle with the typical things like: what should we order from a restaurant? where is the hotel? Do you tip taxi drivers? In Athens, however, we had an entirely new problem to contend with… Greek. I never thought having to memorize ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=183 What's better than the party city of Madrid? The beach town of Barcelona, of course! To add to our conquering of Spain we headed off for a weekend of fun in the sun. Anything to beat the British cold and rain they call summer! And boy ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=171 Fans of bullfighting tend to liken it to a beautiful dance, or a match of wills, or a fiesta nacional (national party) etc etc. having witnessed it first-hand, I can say that there are some aspects that are fascinating, exciting, and maybe even beautiful; however, the bulk of it is ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=151 We had never been to Spain. You're probably wondering why we waited so long and to tell you the truth, I really don't know. Well we decided to correct that though... First we flew into Madrid, then took a train to Cordoba and then a train to Seville, and then ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=157 The last holiday of the summer turned out to be just about the only weekend of the summer with summery weather. June, July and most of August were plagued by cold and rainy weather and left me feeling like I had missed out on summer this year. But this weekend ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=159 You've arrived at our new blog site, welcome! As you can see, we're hosting this on http://www.joeyeager.com/ so please update your bookmarks. The pictures site has moved to http://pictures.joeyeager.com/ and can be accessed by the link on the top left. We tried completely integrating it to this ... http://wp.joeyeager.com/?p=150