On the weekend of May 1st, I was in Ljubljana for a gay wedding. I had been looking forwards to that ever since they invited me because that gay wedding would probably be the coolest thing I have been to for years -- and it was. The whole trip was amazingly fascinating and fun. I had almost forgotten how great it is to travel alone and just look at ( Read more... )

**grins ( Read more... )

And yesterday, I thought it was day seven for the second time around. Drinking with Fiinns seriously impairs your ability to count. Or at least mine ( Read more... )

... now that I can take my EEE on a holiday. And ahhh, this is a holiday! I would not ever have taken it, or thought I'd ever go here, if it wasn't for the wedding; but now I am here, I am loving it in and of itself ( Read more... )

I was really happy about the way that the white stone bridge over the Ljublljanica river was lit purple at night.-

And I tag athousanderrors, who is top of my flist with this that I am sure hasn't done this yet!

Daily happiness will only be declared when the day is done! I have head, so far, lots of coffee that seggued into drink the more Finns joined our party, am going out again for dinner and (guess what?) drinks, have gone up to the castle in a funicular train/little glass elevator contraption, bought a LARGE swirly purple mug that says 'Carpe Diem' in ( Read more... )

I may have to add a 9th day. Or a 10th. Ending this meme with a holiday is brilliant ( Read more... )

I have arrived, and am on the lovely free WLAN in the lovely hostel, in an apartment of a really old house bang in the centre of town! I will venture forth soon and find fudz, but some fun things from the journey first:

• the Austrians like really odd roofs -- low  round ones, or very, very sharply steep ones; by the same token, there seems to be a ( Read more... )

Munich is emerging from its annual state of siege during the NATO security conference. Bigwigs from all NATO countries gather in a hotel in the middle of the city, and everything gets shut down ( Read more... )