It is hard to believe that we say goodbye to September in a few short days. We are going to start week 12 of the "trip of a life time". The weather in Vienna is cool and crisp, "sweatshirt weather" and not all that different from Pennsylvania. Our return from Russia was fairly easy with the exception of the highly scrutinized passports in Moscow airport and equally investigated upon entry into Austria. The border patrol officer shot us a quizzical look and said "Moscow?" He was having some trouble reconciling the bright gold eagle on the front of the USA Passport and the return to Vienna from Russia. Frankly, you can see his point. That's not exactly a "normal" tourist path but then again "normal" and Glavin aren't usually words found in the same sentence. Thwap thwap, thwap, thwap, thwap went the stamp onto 5 passports and "Welcome back to Austria" said the border patrol agent. And so we close the trip to "Russia" with pictures, memories, a snow globe and a Russian Cossack hat as a memento.
We head to Istanbul formerly known as Constantinople. I don't have the heart to tell Pearse they have a few churches in Istanbul too! Hey at least he knows what a mosaic is now!
til later
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