November first was a landmark day for this blog. But before I get ahead of myself, let’s back up for a sec to establish two facts that you need to know: 1. A cheese skipper is a fly larva that is used to ferment casu marzu cheese. It apparently has the ability to launch itself a […]
An unexpected twist on the usual kind of transport museum I tend to visit. I thought I might find Rosemary’s baby in one of them, but the only occupants were creepy dolls and one orange bear.
Český Krumlov is one of those towns that is full of tourists. It is quite picturesque; the Vltava River winds through, forming such a tight curve that the old town is almost an island, with the castle rising up and above on the opposite bank. The hilly terrain amplifies the higgledy-piggledy arrangement of the tightly […]
Another month of intensive Deutschkurs has come and gone with dazzling speed. My big takeaway from this round is that I need to work much harder on building vocabulary. Learning increasingly complicated grammar is one thing, learning it with an inadequate vocabulary at my command adds a whole new layer of frustration and annoyance, mostly […]
I have in the past year declared myself as “Unemployed” when passing a border. This has happened three times; once while driving into Canada, and twice while entering the United Kingdom by air. I don’t recall any other nation asking about this at all. This may, at first glance, seem like a stupid idea. One […]
Saturday night was Vienna’s Long Night of the Museums. Over one-hundred-twenty museums were open from 18:00 to 01:00, and a 13€ ticket got you into as many as your could manage. In six and a half hours I managed: Josephinum, a collection of medical wax models the Tooth Museum, right around the corner from the […]
I’m back in Vienna for another one-month intensive German class. Classes are held right across the street from the Staatsoper on the Ringstraße, and if I arrive a bit early, I sometimes kill time in Schiller Platz (there’s a statue of Schiller) in front of the Academy of Fine Arts. Despite it being within a […]
I swung through Belgium for four days en route from Paris to Vienna, stopping in Antwerp and Ghent. Belgium has a lot of things I like…frites, bicycles, waffles, chocolate. I’m sort of outgrowing the last two, but have an abiding love of the first two. So do the Belgians, apparently. Perhaps they can get away […]
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