I'm starting to believe this "mercury in retrograde" stuff, especially now that I did a little reading and have learned that it supposedly complicates travel and communication. Here is the story of my attempt to brush up on my Irish:

( sequence of events )

So the website for my language school says that it's incredibly easy to catch a bus from either Shannon or Dublin airports. This is true. On Fridays. Not on Sundays. Having exhausted every possibility for travel from Shannon to Burtonport before the last ferry leaves at 7pm, including emailing the school, I finally decided to continue my trip to ( Read more... )

About my last day in prague:

1) When the receptionists changed shifts in the evening, the night guy was confused because the day person hadn't recorded that I was staying an extra night. He then asked if "my sister" was still there, meaning lilith23. I didn't bother to correct him ( Read more... )

I got stuck in Prague an extra day as the Amsterdam Schipol airport was completely closed down due to snow, and my flight was meant to go through it. I could have gotten on another flight the same day, but since I had to wait for two and a half hours in line, fortunately with the company of a bunch of friendly young Seventh Day Adventists (not ( Read more... )

So I just got a call from work asking where I was, as I was on the schedule to open this morning ( Read more... )

I.
This is not Kansas.
All roads lead to Budapest,
however you go.

II.
Perfect road buddies:
we share both camera and bed,
but not underwear.

Nose and cheeks pink with cold thaw slowly in the musty heat of a train car.

A bearded man points to the no smoking sign as he puffs on his cigarette.

Fashionable young women chatter excitedly as they read about love and underthings.

Underworld pushes the miles behind us, through mountains, over endless plains and rolling hills.

connector ( Read more... )

We've been Budapest for I think 10 days now, though several of those days were day trips out to other areas of Hungary. We're just now getting ready to head out to the smaller towns, specifically Pécs, Szeged, Sopron, and Kőszeg, then off to Vienna and Prague.

( the good )

I'm packed. I'm sad that my shoes are still brown but at least they're comfortable. Achilles tendons are still healing. Stupid tendons ( Read more... )

Until February, entries here will mostly be logging the planning stages of my impending trip to Hungary. The tentative dates of travel at this point are Feb 6-ish to March 2nd-ish. Possibly we will also spend a couple days in Prague and Athens, if our schedule allows. But we only have 3 weeks, and this is an academic trip, so obviously research ( Read more... )