No updates for quite a while! My apologies, fair readers.
Yesterday was the day of the Three Point Fifth Detroit Area Bullshido Throwdown. Bullshido, for those amongst you unfamiliar, is an online community for tremendously rude people who happen to be fond of martial arts.
You may recall a similar post some time ago, when I attended the last ( Read more... )

Ok, I'm back in the States. In fact, I've been back for half a week or so, so sorry about not updating ( Read more... )

Jesus Christ, Italy was intense.
As it turns out, there was an awful lot of Italy that we wanted to see, and ended up in four different cities in the course of five days.
Day one brought us to Venice, where we were for less than twenty four hours. Just enough to wander around at night, see the canals, go to bed, get up, wander around some more in the ( Read more... )

As you can see, I'm running out of puns ( Read more... )

I forgot to mention something aboiut the Netherlands, on my last day there, while waiting for the train to Germany, I think I was accidentally Born Again.
it seems that much like America, the Netherlands also has street preachers. Fittingly, they're susbtantially more reserved, polite, and upbeat than their American counterparts. I was quite ( Read more... )

Netherlands, still pretty cool ( Read more... )

Ok, so Germany.
Is amazing.
Especially Southern Germany.
We spent a day or two in Freiburg in the awesome hospitality of Andrew Nicholson and a group of U of M expats. It was quite a lovely experience, and I dare say that I love Southern Germany.
We later, after a three day excursion the Netherlands, came down the super-gorgeous city of Fussen. Fussen ( Read more... )

Ok, I haven't updated in quite a while. Like, four or five countries.
But first I need to say something I forgot about Ireland. Perhaps, the most important thing about Ireland - The Dublin Spire.
The Dublin Spire is art taken to it's worst possible conclusion, a giant, silver spike that penetrates the heavens, an obscenity of bad taste that towers ( Read more... )

Now that I've got Ireland out of the way, Paris.
We left Ireland at 6:30 in the morning, which, in retrospect, was a bit early.
We arrived in Paris tired, hungry, grumpy, and unable to speak French. All of these problems - aside from the linguistic one - disappeared the moment we popped into a sandwich/dessert shop and loaded up on delicious, cheap( ( Read more... )

I seem to be falling behind on my blogging. I'm about to leave Paris, but first, I need to give the digs on Dublin.
Notable things about Dublin include:
-It's really small. At least compared to the likes of London and Paris and even Copenhagen. Almost everywhere we wanted to go was within walking distance of everywhere else we wanted to go.
-Food is ( Read more... )