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Not dead, just busy: there have been four countries and many cities (and lots and lots of beer) since the last update. We headed north from Poland through Austria, up to Germany, then Belgium and the Netherlands and now back to Germany. I am working on getting it all down; I am now back in [...]

Poland makes me think of , aka the Komissar. I wish you were here! Then we could have adventures beyond watching the confusion late at night in the funky 24-hour grocery (aka “vodka shop”) when their check-out server went down whilst the lady was scanning my fizzy water, and had to be reboot — at [...]

ja! After a few lovely days in lovely Berlin (perhaps it was because the hotel sheets were so nice? because it drizzled and I drank coffee and it reminded me of home?) I took off with J. and his parents to Prague via one night in Dresden. It was a quick journey then, less than [...]

Brasov: I never got around to writing about the cute funicular that took us up the side of a mountain to Brasov’s imitation of the Hollywood sign (“brasov” spelled out in big white letters, high, high up), or the cute little medieval(?) part of the walled city, or our fellow travelers, who were quite funny, [...]

I am killing time waiting for the overnight train to Budapest. Rar! Take that, time! It’s appropriate really, as I am having a hard time believing it’s july 1st already. And I’m done with school. And I have no fixed address currently. What has happened to my life, exactly? I keep meaning to write about [...]