I Travel here and there

Boutique Hotel

Posted By on July 31, 2012

Our first trip as a married couple back in 2001 – which was, incidentally, just over a week after the 911 debacle – was to Italy.  This had been a dream of mine for a long time – to visit the romantic canals of Venice, and to walk up and down the streets or strada of Rome.  And it was just as exciting and amazing as I’d dreamed.  Actually, it was even more amazing because our mental picture of a place from TV or other sources never fails to fall short of reality.  That might seem like an obvious statement, but the contrast between what we expect a place to be like and what it actually is like can really be startling.  And it certainly was startling seeing Rome, and Venice in person.

It was in many ways, as close to a perfect honeymoon vacation as we could have hoped for.  Maybe the only thing I could complain about the whole trip was that it was too short.  We were on a tight one week itinerary that took us on a whirlwind tour of three of Italy’s most famous cities – Rome, Florence and Venice.  That meant that, including travel time, we really only had one solid day per city to walk around and explore.   From the time that we arose from our sleep in our amazing boutique hotel in each city to the time that we fell asleep in the same bed, we had to carefully plan what we would and would not see.  That meant that we had to forgo seeing the Colosseum in Rome for example.

But aside from that (and my husband getting sick for the best parts of Venice later on into the trip), it turned out to be a vacation that we’ll always remember as the perfect “inauguration” of our married life together.

London Summer Olympic

Posted By on July 30, 2012

It’s too bad that I can’t go to London to watch summer Olympic. I guess the only way that we can enjoy the summer Olympic is that by watching television but frankly I don’t have time to do it. I know some of my friends that lives in London are enjoying themselves. The FB feeds are flooding with summer Olympic pictures!

Doctors

Posted By on June 11, 2012

A doctor, as we all know, is not always the easiest person to get in touch with in the traditional world of phones and doctor’s receptionists.  So it’s with great interest that doctors like Huong Le, MD are bravely stepping out into the internet and making themselves and their practices more accessible to their patients and to other doctors and health care providers.

This was something most doctors would have loved to able to do previously but they were often hindered by the restrictions placed on them by concerns for privacy and such.  But new technology has made this very thing possible.  Hopefully more doctors will jump on the bandwagon and get closer online with their patients.