City Daily Photo Blogs

My newest fascination on the Internet, helping to ease the travel bug (or perhaps make it worse) are: City Daily Photo Blogs. Of course, being partial to Berlin I already have that photo blog under my list of links. But it's really cool to go through different cities - some big, some small - all around the world and see things through the lens of people who live there.

I just saw a funny picture from a photo blog in Cairo at a supermarket. The sign advertises "Austrich Chunks" in Arabic and English. The blogger clarifies the poorly translated phrase as "ostrich steaks," making the meat then sound slightly more appealing. Seeing that reminded me of when Bethany and I tried in vain to describe the word "chunk" to a group of Germans in our orchestra in Freiburg. We finally settled with "stückchen," or, "little piece". Don't ask me how that got started, but some words just don't translate well!

Still snowed in by the storm (which is why I have so much time to look at these photo blogs and blog about it!). My training was postponed again, this time till Sunday when everything should be cleared by then. We have a huge drift of snow out the kitchen window that is close to 6 feet tall and growing as the wind keeps blowing the snow!