Dead Sea
26.07.2007 - 26.07.2007
43 °C
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Important Facts About The Dead Sea:
- Dead
- 1200 Feet below sea level
- Hot as Hell! (45C=113F)
Anyhow, we had a lovely time at the Dead Sea, the
Lowest Point on Earth
We visited the fortress of Masada, where Jewish rebels fought the Roman army in 66 CE.

then some of us took advantage of the nearby En Gedi spa for a delicious mud then sulphur bath...

Posted by svjorber
27.07.2007 07:45
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Road to Seville
13.07.2007 - 13.07.2007
38 °C
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On...heck, we have no idea what day of the week it is, even less what date it is. Well, that day, we woke up and knew it was time to drive to Seville, about 120 miles away.
First we came across these eerie windmill farms that populate the very Southern tip of Spain, near the Straights of Gibraltar, where I suppose Don Quixote use to work a while back

Between Algeciras and Cadiz, we stopped at Vejer de la Frontera, one of the beautiful "white villages" of Andalusia.

Our next stop was the city of Jerez de la Frontera, famous for its many many distilleries, including Harveys Bristol Cream, Sandeman Sherry, and many many others. Below is the statue of local hero TIO PEPE adoring a city square: !!

No sampling for us though... we are either driving or under age. Maybe next time.
Posted by svjorber
14.07.2007 23:15
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Joys of Travel
04.07.2007 - 05.07.2007
14 °C
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On July 4th we traveled from Arraial to Rio, then few to Sao Paulo in order to catch an Air France flight to Paris. We managed to load all of our carry-on bags on board the cabin becuase we knew we had a tight connection in Paris.
We landed 20 minutes late, but exited the airport and hopped on a taxi literally in 5 minutes to Orly, where our connecting Air France flight to Marrakech Morocco departed from. We ran into a novice taxi driver and into the worse Parisian traffic jams ever.
We arrived at Orly 15 minutes before boarding and even though we did not have bags to check, we were refused on the flight by an overzealous AF employee.
With a bit of insistence, Air France put us at a nearby hotel for the day and on a Royal Air Maroc flight bound for Marrakech in the evening. So in the end, we lost about a half day which we would have probably used to recuperate in Marrakech anyways.
Posted by svjorber
10.07.2007 15:33
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