In case you were thinking of calling me to wish me one, please don’t! My phone will be roaming: Romeo and I will be in Istanbul. He has a conference there and is scheduled to talk on my birthday so after he asked me if I wanted to go with him, I jumped up and down and booked our tickets. I’ve already been to Istanbul so I just got myself a new job: Romeo’s personal tour guide. I never quite mastered the Turkish language, so it will be a little more difficult than recovering my Spanish in Panama. I guess I will just have to brush up on my French skills . In 1999 in Istanbul, I got better deals as a francophone tourist than an anglophone tourist, we’ll see if things have changed. Practicing my French should come in really handy on our way back when we stop in Paris (again).