From the monthly archives:

June 2008

An idea for Amazon

June 5, 2008

I always need lots of reading material when I travel. I usually don’t read it all but I like to have it with me. I prefer traveling with newspapers and magazines because I don’t have to carry them back home with me. And somehow dirty laundry is heavier than the clean stuff it used to […]

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Do you really want to know?

June 4, 2008

I had lunch at a nice Brasserie in Amsterdam today. The meal was OK. Not good. Just OK. Anyway, at the end of our meal a young woman came to clean up our table. In a sweet voice she said “was everything OK?” or something like that. But she said it in a perfunctory sort […]

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Don’t ignore your urges

June 3, 2008

I’m in Amsterdam now with my brother. We were walking around town enjoying ourselves and my brother started feeling like he might want to avail himself of a WC. Since we were only a few blocks away from the hotel, he asked me if I would mind heading in that direction. Of course I never […]

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It’s nice to meet interesting people

June 3, 2008

I’m in Amsterdam now. Will head to Israel tomorrow. I’m traveling with my brother and we came to Amsterdam via London. On my flight to London I had the opportunity to sit next to a very nice, interesting woman. We had a few minutes of laughs and then I asked her what she did for […]

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