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Jun. 3rd, 2008
01:29 am - unrelated
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kniedzw has been posting honeymoon pictures to Flickr, so I shall, too. These are my most interesting or artistic shots from Rome, Delos, Mykonos, Rhodes, Santorini, Istanbul, Ephesus, and Athens; the Pompeii pictures are on his camera, mine having gone belly up the night after Athens.
You will notice some duplication between his set and mine; we had a habit of taking extremely similar shots. Which isn't a bad thing: sometimes one or the other of us got a better angle or frame on it.
Special to Lymond folks: there's a picture of the Topkapi Palace harem.
May. 31st, 2008
05:00 pm - returning to the world of the internet-living
I am back home. Half a day and change later than I should have been -- weather cancellations stranded us in Chicago last night -- and horribly jet-lagged, but otherwise fine. (And, judging by the comments I've received so far, much more tan than anyone here has ever seen me.)
I have not read the Internet since May 6th. If you got married/had a sex change/moved to Laos/cured cancer/did anything else you would like me to know about, please say so in comments. 'Cause God knows I'm not reading through the archives of all this stuff for the last three and a half weeks.
If you contacted me, I will be responding as soon as I can, jet-lag permitting.
Expect regular blogging to resume henceforth.
May. 23rd, 2008
03:15 pm - today's adventure
Rode a donkey up the Cliffs of Moher-esque side of the Santorini volcanic caldera.
Hey, it beat climbing those 600 steps.
In my usual way of things, though, I neglected to remember that kniedzw had never been on a horse until after I convinced him to go on a donkey ride.
May. 22nd, 2008
02:03 pm - cruising
So far, I have:
Stood in the sacred lake where Apollo and Artemis were born. (Or at least stood with my feet in the depression that used to be the sacred lake until the French archaeologists drained it in the 1920s to save themselves from malaria.)
Viewed the spot where the Colossus of Rhodes probably stood.
Bathed my feet in the aquamarine waters of the Aegean.
So far? It's going well.
May. 17th, 2008
09:03 pm - rain day count
London: 0/8 days
Rome: 2/2 days
Something is seriously wrong with this picture. (Though, to be fair, the Rome rain days have been temporary sprinkles, not solid rain. But still: ROME. With rain. When London had nary a drop.)
Also, re: Vatican -- buh.
May. 16th, 2008
09:41 pm - micro-update
In Rome.
Eeeeee! Saw Forum. And Colosseum. And. And. And.
<geekgasm>
/end
May. 6th, 2008
12:48 am - here we go . . . .
I early-voted this morning, because tomorrow I'm leaving on a jet plane and not coming back until I've seen England, Italy, Greece, and Turkey -- or at least small samples thereof.
I'm nervous. It's been a while since I've taken a trip this long, and I've never done a multi-stage thing like this, not that I recall. I had to make a second stack of Things To Be Packed, for kniedzw to luggage up and bring to Rome next week.
No doubt I've forgotten something. (You always do.) But my father will be smug; for possibly the first time since I got out from under his thumb enough to avoid it, I made an honest-to-god written list of everything I needed to bring. Yes, Dad, you win.
London trip-blogging to follow. Cruise-blogging will be dependent on how obscenely flagellant the Internet prices are on board the ship. Worst-case scenario: I'll see y'all again in June.
Apr. 30th, 2008
11:58 am - last excerpt
With forty days to go until Midnight Never Come hits the shelves, I've posted the last portion of the excerpt. It's a long one, so keep clicking through. (Alternatively, you can start back at the beginning.)
(Confidential to sora_blue: You can finally get the answer to your question from a month ago!)
That will actually be the last of the MNC promotional stuff for a while. I leave next week for London, where I will have many adventures researching the next book, and then I will be in the Mediterranean, trying to do no work at all. There will, however, be one last nifty thing, just before the book comes out. And in the interim, you will be getting the return of the trip-blogging, which I know many people enjoyed last year. So enjoy!