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      • Why Living in the Occident?
        11/30/08
        Chantilly, France

        So why did I call my blog "Living in the Occident"?

        By Occident I mean living in the Western Culture. I guess I could have called my blog "Living in France" which is where I live now but I wanted the scope of my blog to be larger than that

      • Dahab Retrospective
        11/29/08
        Chantilly, France

        While I was on vacation, the world wide economic slowdown continued to deepen. Returning from vacation was not easy. I don't know what had the most impact - the muscle pains from all of that physical activity that I was able to stave off in Egypt but upon returnin

      • Dahab - Day 5
        11/14/08
        Dahab, Egypt

        My windsurfing lesson was at 11:30 today. There was a stiff breeze blowing. I used a size 180 board and a size 5.4 sail. I was continuing working on the water start with some progress to be made before having some success. Dahab is a very popular place for windsurfing and

      • Dahab - Day 4
        11/12/08
        Dahab, Egypt

        As is commonly the case in mass market resort hotels, breakfast is a buffet and is also oftenly the case, what starts out at the beginning of the week as a delight starts to become old after a few days. The restaurant at the Iberhotel is pleasant, however with seating inside

      • Dahab - Day 3
        11/12/08
        Dahab, Egypt

        Tuesday my windsurfing lesson was scheduled for later in the day so I decided to take advantage of the extra time in the morning to visit another modest dive/snorkeling site a 15 minute walk down the coast from the Iberhotel. According to information I found on the internet,

      • Dahab - Day 2
        11/10/08
        Dahab, Egypt

        The Iberotel Hotel is located on Dahab bay, south of the city of Dahab. It's the last in a string of hotels on this stretch of beach, all of them offering some kind of windsurfing experience. And there are a lot of windsurfers here. As my windsurf instructor pointed ou

      • Dahab - Day 1
        11/09/08
        Dahab, Sinai, Egypt


        (Dahab Bay)

        The sun sets around 5:30 p.m. this time of year in Dahab. It's a pity really. The landscape is spectacular. Dahab lies on the eastern finger of the Northern Red Sea. It's also called the gulf of Aqaba. The gulf, indeed all o

      • Warsaw
        11/06/08
        Warsaw, Poland


        (Reconstructed Presidential Palace)

        So what do I know about Poland? Not much. It's a slavic country wedged between the Germans and the Tsars. And its history is intertwined with both of them.

        After ten years living in Europe, it's

      • Ten years in Europe, What's next?
        11/02/08
        Chantilly, France

        Sometime in the first half of 1998 I flew to Paris on assignment for Chrysler Corporation. Although I've returned to the U.S. many times over the years, it was never to reside there. Since 1998 I have been living in Europe, partly in France and partly in Germany.<

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