One of my favorite things about traveling is being able to meet people from all over the world. This past Saturday I was able to do exactly that through an organization called InterNations. InterNations is a website deigned to connect people who are living abroad. In a sense it provides a space for expats to …
Tag Archives: Europe
Giant Trails
Of those at the table in the café where on winter noons a garden of frost glittered on windowpanes I alone survived. -Czeslaw Milosz, Warsaw 1944. Everyone was a little puzzled by my utilization of last week’s long weekend. Why Poland, of all places? Besides a smattering of kielbasa jokes, the average global citizen knows fairly …
Normal Days
It must not be thought, dear reader, that Josh the blogger has been careening from classical ruin to classical ruin, beach to beach, with hardly a paper in between. In fact, I’m devoting a whole post to demolish this myth, and I lay it here at your feet. I’ve decided to record my weekday schedule, …
Southern Excursion: Part 2
On the fourth day we left Tozeur and headed towards Douz. along the way we stopped at the Chott el Djerid Salt Lake. It is the largest salt span in the Sahara and it 160 miles long. We had some fun walking around and exploring. We drove for several hours through the desert and wide …
Southern Excursion: Part 1
Last week we spent eight days traveling all around southern Tunisia. We learned about water in the desert, rode camels, and visited Star Wars sets. We left Monday morning and headed to Kairawan where we visited the Grand Mosque. It was a beautiful structure. Next we headed to Sidi Bouzid. I have been waiting to …
An Introduction to the ISP
These past few weeks have flown by. I can’t believe it is already time for a second excursion! We will be leaving Monday morning and returning next Monday. This time we will be heading South and hitting many different towns and visiting parts of the Star Wars set! We are all very much looking forward …
Mystra in the Mist
Ahoy again! Josh the Wandering Hedgehog has just returned from his field trip in the Peloponnese. He has been very good at buying postcards, but very bad at budgeting. I’m very tempted to speak about the Stadium at Olympia -site of the eponymous games, or of my recent trip to Mycenae. Perhaps I’ll do that …
Hiking in Hammam Lift
I have only been to downtown Tunis twice during my time in Tunisia and have been wanting to return. The two times I visited downtown were to visit some NGOs as part of one of my SIT courses. So last weekend two of my friends and I decided to explore Tunisia a little bit. We left …
Estuaries
Not much in a way of pictorial evidence for this one, friends. My apologies. I ate too quickly. As Caldwell says, I regret nothing. So I visited a tiny Chinese restaurant in the middle of Syntagma Square, Athens. Tucked away to the left of the hipsterville Ermou Street, was a little pan-Asian enclave of sushi …
Northern Excursion: Part 2
After leaving Le Kef we started on our way towards Tabarka. The surrounding scenery was beautiful. I kept wanting to close my eyes and nap, but I was afraid of missing something. For such a small country, Tunisia is very geographically diverse. We drove through plains, mountains and rolling hills. On our way to Takarba …
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