http://www.travelnottour.com/ Travel Not Tour en Wed, 21 May 2008 00:43:00 GMT Wed, 21 May 2008 00:43:00 GMT info@travelnottour.com info@travelnottour.com http://www.travelnottour.com/images/blog-shot.JPG http://www.travelnottour.com/ http://www.travelnottour.com/first-pair-of-knockers-out-spotted/ On the plane from Paris to Barcelona, I closed my eyes and imagined Spain. The sun, sangria, sundresses, brown skin and bare feet. Sweating profusely in my I-Have-To-Wear-5kg-Of-Clothin g-So-My-Luggage-Meets-Restric tions... http://www.travelnottour.com/first-pair-of-knockers-out-spotted/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/first-pair-of-knockers-out-spotted/ Wed, 21 May 2008 00:43:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/a-tumultuous-love-affair/ Where do you possibly begin with a city that has been (rather successfully) in film, literature and music for about as long as it has been in existence. Do you... http://www.travelnottour.com/a-tumultuous-love-affair/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/a-tumultuous-love-affair/ Wed, 07 May 2008 00:22:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/cycling-legs-mini-trips-and-moving-out/ Just two days after getting home from Munich, we left for Berlin. At 5am. Christian and Tommy, who were sharing the four hour drive (flight) down the autobahn, predicted traffic... http://www.travelnottour.com/cycling-legs-mini-trips-and-moving-out/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/cycling-legs-mini-trips-and-moving-out/ Tue, 29 Apr 2008 00:21:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/becoming-german/ Perhaps the best place to start is the flight to Germany. It was nearly as epic as our month long stay in, what my father calls, The Motherland. Epic, not... http://www.travelnottour.com/becoming-german/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/becoming-german/ Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:53:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/uptown-girls/ When our cab pulled up in front of number 850 West End Ave, Upper West Side, New York City, we all sat for a little while, silent with disbelief. It... http://www.travelnottour.com/uptown-girls/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/uptown-girls/ Sun, 06 Apr 2008 00:35:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/manhattanites-by-day-statenites-by-night/ And so we stood before a teased tornado of salt and pepper hair, our luggage pooled at our feet, our cab driver roaring from view. One by one, we began... http://www.travelnottour.com/manhattanites-by-day-statenites-by-night/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/manhattanites-by-day-statenites-by-night/ Sun, 30 Mar 2008 00:25:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/flights-ferries-fantastical-hair/ New York, New York. I have almost been putting off writing about our two week stint in the city famous as famous for its buildings as it is its abusive... http://www.travelnottour.com/flights-ferries-fantastical-hair/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/flights-ferries-fantastical-hair/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:42:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/cold-feet-starbucks-heaven/ From the very beginning, Canada was fantastic. The moment Courtney turned her car into the carpark of Victoria's Regent Hotel (the very hotel her father is, fortuitously, the manager of... http://www.travelnottour.com/cold-feet-starbucks-heaven/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/cold-feet-starbucks-heaven/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:38:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/sorbet-houses-homeless-people/ And so San Fran was a swirl of sorbet coloured houses, steep hills, Starbucks and China Town. Our flight was, as the trend seems to be thus far, delayed due... http://www.travelnottour.com/sorbet-houses-homeless-people/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/sorbet-houses-homeless-people/ Tue, 25 Mar 2008 12:36:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/hola-hot-tamales/ It has been so long since last I penned a blog. This shall surely produce a divided response. Fury from the true dedicated blog readers and relief at a fresh... http://www.travelnottour.com/hola-hot-tamales/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/hola-hot-tamales/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:35:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/whats-up-momma/ Day 3 in LA dawned crisp and sunny ... not that Dee and I would know, seeing as we slept in till 12.21pm. I like to blame jetlag (and the... http://www.travelnottour.com/whats-up-momma/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/whats-up-momma/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:30:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/if-you-hear-a-knock-on-the-window-its-not-a-kangaroo/ NB: title comes from actual quote, as wheezed by house guest, 'Lorenzo' And so the time for the first official blog is here. This may be a long one, I... http://www.travelnottour.com/if-you-hear-a-knock-on-the-window-its-not-a-kangaroo/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/if-you-hear-a-knock-on-the-window-its-not-a-kangaroo/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:29:00 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/calm-before-the-storm/ I am writing this three days before our date of departure, more to break the ice than to actually post anything insightful. For those of you unfamiliar with the adventure... http://www.travelnottour.com/calm-before-the-storm/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/calm-before-the-storm/ Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:27:26 GMT http://www.travelnottour.com/100-yearold-bungee-jumper-spells-infinity-to-guarddog/ Over a decade ago when I worked for the president of Ziff-Davis Publishing in Boston--the top international tech publishing company at its heyday--my boss subscribed to a stack of periodicals... http://www.travelnottour.com/100-yearold-bungee-jumper-spells-infinity-to-guarddog/#comments http://www.travelnottour.com/100-yearold-bungee-jumper-spells-infinity-to-guarddog/ Fri, 10 Aug 2007 01:35:00 GMT