Travel Adventures

I spent most of my time in Tel Aviv... This being my fourth trip I didn39t need to see everything...There are few places that I visit repeatedly and many people ask me why I love Israel so much... Here are some reasonsWhen I39m in Israel I feel close to Gd. It is the only time I don39t mourn the trauma of the Jewish people and I speak enough Hebrew that I can get around without the

May 25 2013 Jianyang Chengdu We held a blindness prevention screening clinic at a community health center in Jianyang. These county level health centers are an important node in the battle against cataract blindness and of the screenings we did 4050 of eyes had advanced cataracts and we some some patients who had had cataract surgery with very poor results. The need was reinforced again t

May 25 2012 Chengdu Just a quick update after a bit of silence on the blog. The silence had to do with lack of internet access or time to update the blog. Lots happened in the last few days which I39ll summarize quickly but then detail later. We completed negotiations with the hospital and were successful at coming to an agreement after some challenges. This is seen as an historic event in

We are going to a family wedding in Ireland We will be away for two weeks visiting Karen Clive in Ambleside UK then travelling to Ireland for the wedding. Sitting at Schiphol airport waiting for our connecting flight in a few hours. We are flying with KLM to Manchester via Amsterdam. Applying for visas was quite a mission with them wanting every bit of information about your past your pres

This experience needs a blog of its own I39m currently in the first class Thai Airways Lounge. I was here before on the way to Rome but this time I got a full body massage and a shower They have a bath a shower a toilet and a massage bed all in the same room and you can close off the bathroom for when you want to get changed. There is unlimited food and drinks here and the staff are amazing

Do Bombaju sme dorazili o 800. Na zaciatku mesta bolo vidiet kopa chatrc a chudobycim sme isli viac do centra chudoba ustupovala ale bordel nie. Bus ma vyhodil 3km od casti Colaba a 4km od hlavnej zel.stanici.Vybral som sa pesibusom do casti colaba. Na chodnikoch sa prave umyvali indoviaovsem nie vsetciniektory uz ranajkovali resp este spali vo svojich pribytkoch. Na hlavnej ulici o murovane o

Monday morning I find myself dragging my suitcase back down Gandhi Road in Darjeeling to the pickup point for my ride to Gangtok in the neighbouring state of Sikkim. A Permit is required for foreigners travelling to Sikkim as it is a restricted area and I got mine sorted the day before. They cost nothing but you do need a photocopy of your visapassport and a passport sized photo.I had bought

Paris has always been one of my favourite cities I think it always will be. Ive often thought about moving back to France and if I do Paris would have to be where I go. Trying to convince my French boyfriend to move back to France is quite another thing. So for the three days we had in Paris my mission was to convince him that it would be a good place for us to live for a while.We took the

I cant believe theyre sending me AGAIN to the US for business trip and you know what the Singapore Airlines tickets are sold out so I had to take Air France. And the worst part of it I have to transit in Paris overnight That city is so dirty and the people are just so obnoxious. How annoying she rants while munching her lunch. My jaw just dropped. For couple of seconds m

I am attending a language school in Novosibirsk and it is fun but highly intensive. Lessons start at 10am each morning with a class of 23 people where the focus is on conversation lots of situation practice and asking and answering questions. Lunch is at 115pm and at 230pm there is either a tutorial or individual lesson where the focus is on grammar. By the time we finish at 530 or 6pm I