Hi, and welcome to my umpteenth site on the Internet.
My name is Samer, and I’ve been chronically online since 1988. I’ve had many versions of a personal website over the years — documenting my early travels, blogging, showing off photos, and more. This is the third iteration of Perambulare.
PERAMBULARE
This is a Latin word meaning “to walk all over” or “to wander”. That’s the spirit of this website — taking a stroll all over the place.
I love Iceland, and especially Reykjavík. It’s my happy place, and I try and spend as much time as I can there, often a month or two in the summer. You’ll see a lot of pictures from there in my photography section.
I also love great food and drink, and I have a dining guide for Reykjavík which gets shared out by the Icelandic Embassy in the USA. I’ll have a few more guides in the future for at least DC and London, and you’ll find those in the eating section. I’ll also share some recipes I’ve developed (mostly Lebanese food) in the cooking section.
I plan to do some writing. I used to blog fairly regularly, but stopped a million years ago when short-form social media took over. I was on Twitter, and have since moved to Bluesky and Mastodon.
Some of you might have noticed that the .is domain is particularly suited to URLs that are of the type “samer is eating reykjavik”, and you’re correct to judge me. I’m sorry, and I’m sure it’ll happen again.
If you enjoy this site, feel free to reach out and say hello. If not, well, no need!