From Sea to Shining Sea

The Dregs: London






The Rosetta Stone
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Here's a video that I took in Cairo that I've wanted to post for a long time and now that I'm back in California, land of fast internet connections AND computers, I can. I took it at the Ibn Tulun mosque from the minaret, a few seconds before the call to prayer started.

The Prauge Photographs

The Statues of Budapest






I had a bit of a whirlwind tour of the haunting city of Budapest, where statues seem to hide in the stones of the buildings and emerge at their leisure. It's a beautiful city but I think the massive statues and stunning Hungarian women were a bit of a shock to me after two months in Muslim countries that have almost no statues (save Ataturk, Turkey's "Eternal Leader") and women who are much more fully clothed. I had a bizzare 10 hour overnight train ride to Prauge after waiting in the Budapest train terminal for three hours in the middle of one of the most intense thunderstorms I've experienced. Prauge's been excellent, if overcast, the last six days and I'll write about it and post some pictures soon, but for now there's a bit of a line forming for the computer. The downside to free internet, I suppose.

I've Been Slacking.
Check out Ben and Sierra's excellent account of our trip to central Turkey here (and pretty pictures):sierrasworldatlarge. Since then I've been on 40 hour train rides, meeting professional chess players, getting Thai massages in the bath houses of Budapest, and sampling the beers of the Czech in Prauge. I've got lots of pictures to share and a computer in English, so I'll post them soon. For now I've got to go see the Prauge Castle before the crowds get out of hand. Cheers.