I wasn't entirely sure what to expect from Iceland, and by the time I got there, I was broke, tired, and found myself presented with an uninspiring city and strange landscape. We had so little money that we bought a bag of muffins and a stack of rice cakes and decided to ration them out as nourishment for our entire stay. The city itself was ( Read more... )

I went to Europe for the first time in November 2003 to visit my German friend in Cologne, and on the second day of that trip, I visited Paris; I was there for approximately 10 horribly jet lagged hours, eight of which were spent waiting for the Elizabeth to stop taking photos at the top of the Eiffel Tour, the other two of which were spent at the ( Read more... )

I have quite a few pictures and quite a lot to write about from my most recent adventures, so I'm going to do it in city-specific installments. Here is the first ( Read more... )

The baguette even tastes good in the ghetto in France.How do I know? I just visited it and we had to go into the bakery so that I could change my red wedges into less conspicuous black flip-flops for our personal safety ( Read more... )

The final installment:

( Days Three and Four: Mazes and Ruins and The Winding Road Home )

[It's 17 August 2006, and high time I wrote about adventures that happened four months ago. So, FINALLY (backdated for continuity if nothing else):

( Day Two: Moving to the Country or A Return to Their Ancestral Homeland )

Yesterday was my last day of classes. I keep remarking to everyone (and to myself) how fast time has gone. Where the fuck did the fall go? I mean, isn't it September still? All of a sudden, BAM! I'm in Belgium and now it's Halloween and Thanksgiving and two weeks from today, I'll be home. And that may or may not change everything. I didn't ( Read more... )

In a push of money-saving sobriety, two of my flatmates and I went on a ghost tour tonight. It was fairly decent. They took us into an actual cemetery -- into the part of the cemetery that was once a makeshift prison, and then into an actual tomb that was "haunted by a poltergeist." It was sufficiently frightening, and adequately entertaining. ( Read more... )