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I was very excited to visit Cairo and to see the wonders of ancient Egypt.  My first impression of Egypt is that I would never want to drive here.  Nope, never. Light Traffic...

La Marsa, Tunisia As Ramadan was winding down—Just a week left to go—I went to La Marsa, Tunisia.  About as close as you can get to Sicily and still be in Africa.  Still, it was Ramadan...

Moroccan Train – 1st Class The train from Marrakech to Casablanca was good.  It was no Austrian train, natürlich, but it was good.  It departed on time.  That’s...

City Wall Morocco is a country that I have never before visited.  I can now cross it off the list.  The Red City of Marrakech (also, Marrakesh), which is neither the Moroccan...

Karlskirche In my time in Vienna, I have only met one person who said they would live somewhere else.  He has lived in Vienna for over twenty years and said he would live in...

Old Town Innsbruck I took a short trip over (4 hours by train) to Innsbruck, Austria’s 5th largest city.  Innsbruck has a population of 130,000, while Vienna, the nation’s capital...