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Have a drink at the Pera Palace - www.perapalace.com. It is steeped in World War I spy atmosphere. And if you are a fan of the author Orhan Pamuk, be sure to visit the Museum of Innocence en.masumiyetmuzesi.org, located in a interesting neighborhood for walking. Consider visiting even if you have ne...

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I am 65 years of age. DW and I have an annual policy with Bupa. A lot of trips we take require evacuation insurance, particularly horse back rides in remote locations. Until we started taking trips where the insurance was required we never gave it a thought.

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Thanks to stumblebum for the recommendation of "Little Dieter Needs to Fly". Watched it today - excellent.

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If you are a fan of Roman ruins you might consider an overnight tour to Ephesus. Check the weather in the Cappadocia region for late December - flights there from Istanbul are quite cheap and it is a fairly short flight - two full days in that area would be a good side trip from Istanbul.

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My DW and I spent 4 days in Istanbul, 3 days in Cappadocia, 3 days in Izmir and 3 days in Azerbaijan about 6 weeks ago. We had a wonderful time, felt and were completely safe. In Istanbul we used the trams and metro system whenever possible. We were traveling with my sister and brother-in-law while ...

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Just finished reading A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Really, really good.

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I second all the Potsdam recommendations - my wife and I did that via Fat Tire Bike Tours' Gardens and Palaces of Potsdam. I would absolutely recommend it. From their website it looks like they do the tour Fridays and Saturdays (among other days).

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Please be sure to see the Basilica Cistern when you are in Istanbul.

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Watched The Name of the Rose last night - an oldie but goodie featuring Sean Connery.

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Post by gardemanger » Sat Nov 29, 2014 8:49 am "One of my all-time favorite documentaries is a Chilean movie called "Nostalgia for the Light." It's set in the Atacama Desert, which is home both to an observatory probing the mysteries of the universe and to bereaved mothers combing the desert for tra...

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'71 - British soldier is separated from his unit while on patrol in Belfast - tense and well done.

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Just finished "The Beautiful Struggle" - subtitled a father, two sons , and an unlikely road to manhood by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Really enjoyed it. Just started reading his article "The Case for Reparations" that was recently published in The Atlantic magazine. Mr. Coates will be discussing the article ...

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We Are Not Ourselves, a novel by Matthew Thomas.
A really good read - I looked forward to having time each day to read more.

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You might also consider parking in downtown Jersey City if you prefer not to drive in Manhattan and then taking the PATH train into NYC.

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In London, I suggest going on as many walks as possible with London Walks - http://www.walks.com/. They really give you a behind the scenes look at the city and the guides are superb in my experience. They also do day trips - I have been on their day trip to the Cotswolds and really enjoyed it. I'd ...

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They might be a bit above your budget now but we bought a Shifman mattress and boxspring http://www.shifmanmattresses.com over 20 years ago and it is still like new - we flip it every month and sleep like logs. We had some extra money at the time and it was well spent.

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The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson. Fiction about the experiences of a young man in recent times in North Korea. A work of fiction but based on a good amount of research by the author. An interesting and enjoyable read.

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Take a round-trip ride on the Staten Island ferry. You get a great view of the Statue of Liberty as part of the trip.

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First, maxing out IRA and 401K contributions - basically putting money where I couldn't touch it.
And, finding bogleheads.org, listening to the good advice given and self-managing our money.

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I would absolutely recommend Mostar - my wife and I drove there for a day trip will visiting Croatia - we toured the city with Alma, the guide mentioned here - https://community.ricksteves.com/travel-forum/trip-reports/tour-of-mostar-bosnia and now I see that it is possible to get picked up from and...

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Married - average age of husband and wife is 55 We invest in two ETFs for fixed income - BND (Vanguard Total Bond Market) and TIP (ishares Barclays TIPS Bond Fund) All fixed income is in our IRAs BND is 62% of our fixed income - TIP is 38% We are 45% in Bonds (average age minus 10%) No plans to add ...

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I agree with others - stay in Nice and take the train over to Monaco for the late afternoon / evening and take the train back that same evening.

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An hour or so of internet / email, then an hour of French lessons (using a text book and the radio) Your location is "France," and still you are using books and radio for learning French? Victoria What happened initially was that it was very easy to fall in with the English speaking ex-pat communit...

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Week days I wake up at 6 AM when my wife is getting ready to go to work, have breakfast with my wife then get dressed and head over to a nearby thoroughbred racing stable by 7:30 AM where I help muck out the stalls until about 11:30 AM - then I usually either get a riding lesson from one of the exer...

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Just finished "Super Sad True Love Story" by Gary Shteyngart - had to push through it at some slow moments with some encouragement from my wife but thoroughly enjoyed it in retrospect. Just started "Jerusalem" by Simon Sebag Montefiore - we have a walking trip in Israel and the West Bank planned for...

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I would be happy to contribute.

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Hello pointyhead, In 2008 I was in a similar situation as you but with a different financial adviser at a different firm. Livesoft and PiperWarrior gave me the best financial advice I ever received. Once you make the decision to move ahead (and please let Vanguard handle the transfer) you will sleep...

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Travel with my wife. Thoroughbred race horses (50% lease in one, 50% and 25% ownership respectively in two others). Gets me up and out in the morning to help out at the racing yard and last October at the ripe age of 50 and change I got to ride a thoroughbred at the training grounds in company with ...

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Hello Taylor, Hello Pat,
That is wonderful news for us to hear.
Enjoy!
Mark and Cynthia

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Just finished "Wolf Hall" by Hilary Mantel. Enjoyed it.
Just started "The Lemon Tree" by Sandy Tolan. Subtitle is "An Arab, a Jew, and the heart of the Middle East". 100 pages in and looking forward to discussing it at my wife's next book club meeting.

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My wife and I have lived in France now for five years. We have been living in Maisons-Laffitte for seven months at present and hope to stay. We enjoy the people, the food and the pace of life. And it is a great location for short trips to the rest of Europe and beyond.

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Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me by Javier Marias
Halfway through and enjoying it.

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From my wife (and I concur): You could fly into Nice or even Marseille.....most of the stereotypical beautiful villages in Provence are further west than Nice. Nice is magnificent, however, and just driving from Nice westward is lovely. Driving in Provence is a pleasure, and going along the coast fr...

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My wife and I have lived in France for over 4 years now (originally from New Jersey) - all of that time except for the last week in Paris (now 20 minutes away by train). The Paris / Provence trip sounds great and a good time of year to go. (That is the first trip we did to France many years ago usin...

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Travel light.

The more things you own, the more they own you.

You couldn't afford that house if you got it as a gift.

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I grew up with the early Avalon Hill games but I would have to say SPI's Wellington's Victory was my favorite - also a PBM game (now that is dating me) called World Conquest run by Bill Rapp / Prime Time Simulations - been a while.

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Stay where you are. Concentrate on finalizing the divorce. That is the one thing that will really allow you to get on with your life.

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Lustrum - Robert Harris (2nd in a trilogy about Cicero)

Lord of Misrule - Jaimy Gordon (glimpse of life at a backwoods racetrack)

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Me 58 wife 45 60 stocks / 40 bonds still working, no pensions ahead.

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I plan to go horseback riding in Albania in June and my wife and I plan to go horseback riding in Georgia in August. We were in Syria about a year and a half ago and were thrilled to see how happy and welcoming people were when they found out we were American. On the same trip we also visited Lebano...

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www.gallopfrance.com

I'm in France and have a goal to become the "exercise rider of last resort"
for Madame Rarick.

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My wife and I are US citizens and moved to France 4 years ago. We were very happy to live in the US and are very happy to be living in France now. Just an addition for the poster above - we have found the health care here to be very good, public transportation top notch and there is mandatory vacati...

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I always used to wear my suit pants out on the inner thigh area - solved it by paying a bit extra to have lining put in in that area - really helpful for me because I am not that comfortable wearing a heavier wool so always wore summer weight wool.

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Hello Phantom,
Are you working in France? If so, are you being paid in euros or dollars? If you are receiving a paycheck is it being deposited in a US bank or a French one?

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Race Horses - my wife and I moved to France several years ago and I started helping out at the yard of Gina Rarick, the only American woman licensed to train thoroughbreds in France. Since then I have bought ownership / leased interest in several race horses trained by Mme. Rarick. Statistically not...

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Yankee Doodle Dandy - The Life and Times of Tod Sloan by John Dizikes

I had no idea that Tod Sloan revolutionized the sport of horse racing, that George Cohan wrote a play about him and that Ernest Hemingway may have used the story of Tod Sloan's life as the subject of one of his stories.

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The Essential Marcus Aurelius

Short / sweet / insighful. Fascinating to imagine him writing it on the frontier.

About to start Caravaggio, Painter of Miracles.

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Hello livesoft and PiperWarrior, Thank you again for your input – you gave me a bit to think about and I appreciate it. The article on where to put emergency funds was an eye opener and we will take the advice given. So you know, we have already moved my wife’s 401K to the ING VP IndexPlus LargeCap ...

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Hello livesoft – thank you for the follow-up and the advice in regard to my wife’s 401K – we will invest that in the ING VP IndexPlus LargeCap Portfolio and reduce the amount we had planned to put in the Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI) by that amount. Will also take your advice on the eliminat...

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Thank you livesoft. I have simplified it a bit and taken into account your recommendations. This is what I have now as proposed: 20% Vanguard Total Stock Market ETF (VTI – exp .07% ) 5% Vanguard Small Cap Growth ETF (VBK – exp .12%) 5% Vanguard Small Cap Value ETF (VBR – exp .11% ) 15% Vanguard FTSE...

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