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Europe Day 8- In The Nooks and Crannies

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »

One of my favorite things about the “get lost and explore” method of sightseeing is that occasionally I’ll stumble on something totally unexpected, a little place off the beaten path that’s given nary a mention in the guidebooks. It may not even be very spectacular, in and of itself, but it’s the surprise that makes [...]

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Europe Day 7- The ABCs of Ljubljana, Slovenia

Posted in Travel, tagged , , on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

By “ABCs” I mean my Arrival, the city’s Background, and the Cuisine. Don’t ask me about the Slovenian ABCs. I had a hard enough time figuring out how to pronounce the name (Answer: Lee-OOH-blee-AH-na). Even among knowledgeable Americans, saying that you’re visiting Ljubljana will often draw blank stares; it’s off the beaten path, internationally speaking. [...]

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Europe Interlude- Photos

Posted in Travel, tagged , on July 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

In addition to catching up on blog entries, I’m also still sorting through photos, and uploading them to Flickr. If you’re interested, you can see them by clicking on the photo link in the right-hand sidebar, or clicking here to see them organized into sets: Link The sets from locales I haven’t blogged about yet [...]

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Europe Day 6- On München, and Hostels

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , on July 12, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Note: At this point I’m catching up on blog entries from home. As I post them I’ll back-date them to the day they happened. I came to a realization earlier today: I’m too old to stay in hostels. Don’t get me wrong, I like hostels. They’re a cheap and easy way to get a room, [...]

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Europe Day 4- Rocking Out in Quedlinburg

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , , on July 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

Well, I can check “Go to German Heavy Metal Festival” off my list of Things To Do Before I Die. Don’t get me wrong, it was fun, and the hearing damage I suffered when I was ten feet from the stage for Krypteria and Delain was totally worth it. As for the other bands, a [...]

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Europe Day 1- The Dark Side of Storytelling

Posted in Travel, Writing, tagged , , , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

The Berlin Holocaust Memorial is a series of 2,711 gray monoliths, which all together take up an entire block near the center of the city. On the outskirts of the Memorial, each monolith is about waist high. As you walk toward the center, they get taller, and the ground begins to dip lower, as if [...]

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Europe Day 1- Back in Berlin

Posted in Travel, tagged , , , on July 7, 2010 | Leave a Comment »

I’ll be back-dating these entries to the day they happened. There probably won’t be a blog entry for each day, just whenever one pops into my head and I finally get a chance to write it. By my count, this flight was my seventh round trip over an ocean since 2000, so they’re kind of [...]

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Sprechen Sie Deutsch?

Posted in Travel, tagged , on July 3, 2010 | 1 Comment »

It’s a sign of how crazy the past couple weeks have been (both at work and in life) that I haven’t gotten a chance to write a post about this yet, but on Tuesday July 6 I’ll be going to Europe for two weeks. There’s a long story behind how this all came together, but [...]

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