The lovely Minkus has left to strike it rich in the big city, and I am stuck in rainy/intermittently sunny Sackville for the time being, so it seems a good time to reminisce about our trip to Italy for the next few posts. Mink and I spent a little less than a week in Italy […]
Read more "Viva Italia! Part I: Rome"First, here’s one of my favourite Beatles songs, “A Day in the Life,” to set the mood, since they feature prominently in this post: For our last day in Prague – this post already dates back to mid-July, so I’m using my photos to guide me at this point – Mink and I checked out […]
Read more "Last Day in Prague (Part III)"Jiggity jig. Sackville is very pretty in August, albeit a tad muggy. I discovered a random roll of film from last summer on one of my developing sprees this year, so I’ve included a few photos in this post to reaffirm (to myself, more than anyone else) that the place to which I have returned […]
Read more "Home Again, Home Again…"For our second day in the Czech Republic, over coffee Mink and I figured out how to get to Kutná Hora to visit the Sedlac Ossuary. This is the bone church that Mink’s parents told us about when I had been in Vienna for less than a day and had been dreaming of going to […]
Read more "Dem Bones: Kutná Hora’s Bone Church (Part II)"A couple of weeks ago, Mink and I decided to make a somewhat spontaneous trip to Prague. I’d wanted to go there since my sister had told me about how awesome it is, and we don’t have much time left to travel in Europe before going back to Canada. I had no idea that Damien […]
Read more "Praha! (Part I)"Prague and Kutná Hora in the Czech Republic; Rome (including a wonderful beach, Ostia Lido), Pompeii, Naples, and Venice in Italy; Ljubljana and Maribor in Slovenia by train, and through Graz in Austria on the way back to Vienna (and I definitely want to check this city out!). Tomorrow Mink and I fly to Belgrade, […]
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