Ugh, jetlag is still kicking my arse. I'm told that spending time out in the sunshine is a good thing for curing it, but it's so cold... and also I'm at work at the end of the office that has no natural light. In my experience I can only adjust by about an hour per day, which means it should be fixed by the end of the week ( Read more... )

Oh yes, piccies: http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10150263598228475.371981.535023474&l=30155ed353

I'm sure that many of you have been to Paris before, so you'll not be surprised when I declare it to be the prettiest city I've visited. Every building throughout the city (and also the outer-city as observed from train windows) has such charm that it's as if, like their language, they tried to refine it until it was made as beautiful as they could ( Read more... )

My surprise Spanish adventure took me to Barcelona and Madrid. Just to be contrary I'm going to tell you all about it in chronological order ( Read more... )

I've been trying to work out exactly how my time in Berlin went by so quickly. It feels like I've just arrived and that I've been here a long time all at once. I challenged myself to do what nobody else I've ever spoken to has been able to do: define what makes Berlin such a great place. I can firmly say that I barely scratched the surface in my ( Read more... )

And so my Budapestian adventure comes to a close. It seems so long ago that it started and that so much has happened. Sure, it ended on a low note - with some guy bursting into the room at 4:15am, dropping change all over the floor, huffing and moaning before falling asleep with the most impressive snoring I've heard in a week, which set off a ( Read more... )

Ah, Vienna. How do I love thee? Well, not as much as I might have hoped. There were patches of brilliance, like my first meal, but there's not a lot that really captured my heart. The main issue in all of this is the hostel I was staying at, which is a dead zone of epic proportions. I kept hoping that kindred spirits would turn up, but alas! I'm in ( Read more... )

Rome: The Eternal City. And in this city I eternally walk. I've spent every day with some people from the hostel checking out various revered structures, all significant to various degrees. Everything is ancient and dirty and amazing. The streets are cobblestoned so the cars and motorcycles rumble over them with a low staccato, a sound that is ( Read more... )

Ah, uni students. They're so young and naive. My sojourn to Public Bar taught me 1) that "pub" is short for "public bar" and 2) university students can't conceive of me being 34. Turns out I'm 26. Wonder whether I should have corrected him and said I was 25. Anyway, with my new-found youth I drank a lot of $1 pots and accidentally stole some guy's ( Read more... )

I could get used to these five day weekends. Thursday night saw me out with the Melbourne Reddit crew at a pub in Fitzroy, and each and every one of them are wonderful... and maybe I've just pissed in their pockets to give them a warm feeling ( Read more... )