http://www.monkeyandrooster.com Follow us as we travel around the world Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:50:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Well it’s been about 4 months since I posted anything on here, but today I’ve finally decided to get my butt in gear and start writing again!  If you’re wondering why I haven’t written in so long (a few of you have asked), there’s a few reasons.  The primary problem ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2010/03/29/hello-again-its-been-a-while/ While checking out other travel related websites to get ideas for how to improve/drive more traffic to this site, I stumbled upon this news article (http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,28318,26197059-5014090,00.html) about the potential for travelers who post bad reviews of hotels on the web to be sued by the hotel for defamation!  Is it just ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/12/03/suing-over-a-bad-review-come-on/ After a short one hour flight from Istanbul, we arrived in Athens, Greece this evening.   At the moment, there are no budget airlines flying to Athens, so we took a flight with Aegean, a regular carrier.  Although it was a bit more expensive (€180 for two one-way tickets to Athens), ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/14/first-time-flying-aegean-airlines/ Today we finished off our week in Istanbul with a visit to the Ortaköy neighborhood to try Kumpir – the biggest stuffed potato you can imagine.  The bus ride had us scared for our lives,  but it was a worthwhile trip… The hotel staff had told us to take bus 25E ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/13/the-end-of-our-week-in-istanbul/ I'm taking a break from writing about what we've been doing/seeing/eating today to write about a topic which has been bugging me as of late - the question of "where are you from?"  We are asked this all the time - when we go eat, when we buy something at ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/12/no-really-im-from-canada/ (please note that, for obvious reasons, we couldn't take pics inside the bath so the above image is from the Internet) Everything we’ve done these past few days has been interesting, but getting scrubbed down and massaged with soap by a couple of male “tellaks” tonight definitely ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/11/our-turkish-bath-experience/ Paul has been swamped with work these last few days so our sightseeing has been limited, but today is a holiday (Remembrance Day) in Canada so we had some free time for a change.  We spent it shopping and eating on Istiklal Street, and in the evening we experienced our ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/11/trying-something-new-in-istanbul/ In an effort to be more “concise” with my blogging, I’m going to try writing shorter articles and be more brief when I talk about what we’ve been doing.  In the past, I’ve summarized several days into one blog, but this is a little different.  Right now we’re starting to ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/08/first-two-days-in-istanbul/ When we got back to Stuttgart after the Sindelfingen Plant tour yesterday, we did some shopping on Königstrasse, Stuttgart’s main shopping street, but by 2:30 we were bored.  We headed to the airport, thinking we could hang out and use their Wi-Fi until our flight at 10:25 pm, but the ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/07/overnight-to-istanbul/ Please note that I'm still putting up older posts, but they won't show up on this page anymore because of the date (to prevent confusion I continue to date blog posts according to the date of events they relate to, not the date I write about them) so if you're interested, please ... http://www.monkeyandrooster.com/2009/11/06/another-note-about-blog-posts/