I had great plans for coming back to the States after five months abroad. I wanted to respond to emails and other contacts that had stacked up from my month traipsing through Europe, my house was a blank canvas waiting to be repainted, and I could finally stop thinking about museums, new friends, and nightlife [...]
So today I took my first steps train in a long while. There is a lot more western movement in my immediate future. And I am very happy. I´m at a hostel in Munich tonight after having spent four nights in Budapest. And Budapest may be my new favorite continental European city. It was just [...]
Before coming to Budapest, I had never been farther east in the world than the Czech Republic. But when I was in Prague, they told me all the action was in Hungary. So I came, knowing far less than I am comfortable knowing about my host culture. The old and the new are colliding here [...]
Vienna was the first city I had ever seen in Europe way back in 1996 and it left a big enough impression on me to come back. Unfortunately, after spending so much time around European buildings, Vienna loses some of its grandeur and one starts to yearn for something with a bit more grit. The [...]
Rome, the Eternal City. The guidebooks say that nothing will prepare you for the chaos that is Roma. That is completely ridiculous. It also happens to be completely true. See, what they don’t tell you is that the crowds are tolerable if you are prepared and rested and that the city is safe to walk [...]
I arrived in Berlin yesterday night around 6pm (which I should add, is before noon in the midwest, so before some of you even woke up!) and fell in love with my first big city after London. On the advice of the hostel staff, I hunted down a great Vietnamese place about 15 minutes away. [...]
It’s sad, but I have spent more quality time with English people on my five days traveling through Europe than in all of my time in London.
Yes, so my plans to blog to the end of my London trip didn’t come to light. But never one to accept defeat, I’m trying to get back on the horse. Alas, my time in London is over. But my month in Europe with everything I own on my back is just beginning. And I [...]
I threatened long ago to write more about Stonehenge, but as the experience faded into the past, so did the excitement about writing about it. Nevertheless, there is more to be said and it seems to want to come out. So after the jump, history and the sublime.
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