How weird is this: Maybe 30 miles to the south of Prague, the city I've been meaning to visit for roughly a third of my life, there is a city called Milevsko. Weird, eh? Well, 5 miles to its east is a city called Tabor ( Read more... )

So the first couple of days of my Prague visit have been largely hijacked by a crazy French guy names Tomas. He drinks much more than I ever could. But he has a more focused sense of tourism than I, and so we've explored many of the major tourist attractions of Prague. The Charles Bridge, St. Vitus' Cathedral, the old Jewish Synagogues and ( Read more... )

One of the first things I saw after arriving in Prague was a statue, in the town square, of a pig on a diving board. And I thought to myself, "See? You were right to want to come here ( Read more... )

( Thoughts upon exploring the Louvre. )

So I think it's fair to say I hit the ground running in Paris. Then exhausted myself, crashed a bit, then came back, as if from the deadShort version, in order ( Read more... )

Sorry no updates for a while. I am exhausted by Paris and frustrated by the lack of cheap internet.

I'll probably post a chamber-dump entry soon enough, and your eyes will glaze over.

Lucky you!

I whine so much about language worried and anxieties and neuroses, it's easy to forget that getting ready to go to a new country is the most exciting part. Tonight I hop on a plane to Paris. Than I will be in Paris! It works out splendidly!

I have a place to sleep tonight. After that, I don't know? I'll catch a train to Berlin at some point, ( Read more... )

( Stuff about foods I've eaten in the past couple of weeks. )

Cork is not a town for tourism. Cork is a place where people live. Maybe it's always sunny here because it's further South, or maybe it just happens that Ireland became sunny during the four-hour bus ride from Galway. This doesn't feel like the same Ireland, though. It feels more metropolitan than Dublin in many ways, and less passionate. ( Read more... )

( So I've got a couple more transcriptions to transcribe, but first let me unload some of the fun soul-searching that everybody expects from a goddamned blog. THEN the transcriptions, which get a little poetical for some reason. )