Sunday in Baden bei Wien

Last Sunday (actually, make that two Sundays ago now), having gotten up strangely early in spite of the crazy bowling shenanigans of the night before (make that COSMIC BOWLING), the Minkus and I spontaneously decided go on a day trip. We chose to explore Baden bei Wien (named “Baden near Vienna” for disambiguation purposes), which […]

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Ch-ch-ch-changes!

Here’s some David Bowie, because it’s summer, I’m happy, and we all love to sing about ch-ch-ch-changes… Hi friends! My apologies for being remiss in rambling on about my recent life adventures for the past month or so. I spent four weeks in Strasbourg, France because of some family stuff, and although all’s well now, […]

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Baths of Budapest (Part II)

Okay, I know I’ve kept you in suspense about the rest of our trip to Budapest – apparently when I work three night shifts in a row and then two day shifts I become a zombie unwilling to do anything creative. But such is life, I suppose. Here’s some Pantha du Prince to accompany your […]

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Sleepless in Slovakia

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 […]

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Last Days in Dublin (Part III)

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 […]

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