50. Go to Bratislava, Slovakia On a whim, Mathis, Peter and I decided to go to Bratislava this Saturday, since it’s only 60 kilometres away from Vienna and an extremely easy bus ride away. The bus goes between Wien and Bratislava 19 times a day, and is only 14 euros round trip — it would […]
Read more "Sleepless in Slovakia"42. Visit the aquarium Last weekend, Mink, Adrian and I went to the Haus des Meeres for some science-y fun. The aquarium is housed in a converted bunker left over from WWWII, a concrete hulk of a building that looms menacingly in comparison to the charming buildings surrounding it. Written in huge letters on the […]
Read more "Haus des Meeres"6 March Laur and I dragged ourselves out of a deep sleep coma around 12:30, since we’d decided the night before that we should probably take it easy today. Our bodies really weren’t giving us much of a choice, at this point. We had a leisurely brunch at Café Seven, during which we wrote down […]
Read more "Last Days in Dublin (Part III)"Five straight days of working at the bar later, I now have a lovely four-day weekend during which I can catch up on my late posts and explore some more of Vienna. Not surprisingly, it turns out that working at a bar and running around for eight hours straight is really exhausting, and I never […]
Read more "Trip to Galway"92. Go to Dublin, Ireland Appropriately enough for the day after St. Paddy’s Day (which involved green beer at a pub called Paddy’s, incidentally) this is the first of three much-delayed posts on my trip with Laur to Dublin. The city was green and warm, and we had fantastic weather for the entire time we […]
Read more "Adventures in Dublin, Part I"I loved eating Zoodles as a kid. Except when the noodle animals came up on my spoon broken or disfigured; that experience was quite traumatizing… but I was a wimp. I digress. 57. See the baby elephant, Tuluba, at the zoo at Tiergarten Schönbrunn On Sunday Minkus, Mathis and I hit the zoo, since it […]
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