One of my hard and fast rules (which I often break anyway) about travel are that a journey should begin with a small amount of luxury so that you can get your head on straight in a new place and end with a lot of luxury so that you have something to look forward to…
Year: 2010
Sabiha Gökçen International Airport in Istanbul
Our flight from Casablanca landed about 50 km from Istanbul in the Sabiha Gökçen International Airport. It’s not nearly as convenient as Ataturk Airport but it services a lot of discount airlines such as Air Arabia. While not a huge airport, it does have a lot of domestic and international flights coming in and going…
Budget Airlines in Turkey and Morocco – Air Arabia
cheap flights to Turkey and Morocco
From the Gare de Fes to Mohammad V International Airport by Train
The new train station in Fes is beautiful. It’s so different from the dark and dingy little place I arrived at the first night I was in Morocco what seems like twenty years ago. Hard to believe it hasn’t even been two years yet. time goes slowly in the 12th century. Inside the station, we…
Istanbul, Turkey Vagabonds
Istanbul is a wonderful city to travel to. It’s so nice for me to be in an international city that is clean, modern, and intellectually progressive. As a world travel destination, Istanbul rocks! As the first international destination for my wife, it’s nice that it’s both Islamic and Modern and Secular. In short, we love…