Like nomads, but with more stuff

On our fourth day we made the trek to Bishkek.  Our first stop was the honey stand we had passed on our way to the lake, where we bought ...

If you aren't going to experience nature, and between the rain and the chill we weren't, there isn't really much in Karakol. ...

The next day we headed out to go halfway around the lake. Early in the drive we pulled over in a canyon and had a great time exploring a...

  To be very frank, the pollution in Astana has driven us, on all previous holidays, to find refuge in the clean air of western Europe o...

The musical group The Zambonis, which we are not sure are even still together, put out this little gem some time in the last. It is a much-...

A couple of months after our arrival in St Petersburg the CLO organized a tour at a museum on Lake Ladoga. At the end of the tour the mus...

One of our grand plans for next year (no longer next year, but rather in about 4 months!) is to hire an au pair to give us more flexibility...

Well, not anytime soon, but it is for real now. I have orders and I have plane tickets. At this point it's just me and the kids, we don...

Our date night plans were pretty sedate, then a friend called who also had a babysitter that night and we changed our plans to meet up with...

Technically, they are home and no longer bounding.  Terry and the kids went to Berlin during the kids' spring holiday last week while I...