I’m sitting in Starbucks in an off-the-grid neighborhood of my little EE city. So off-the-grid, in fact, that the nice girl who took my order was actually surprised and shocked to speak English. Story time: There is a girl sitting close to me. She’s very cute. She has a MacBook Air, so she’s probably a […]
Travel
Filet mignon…made of pork
Last week, I spent some time in a second tier-city. Brno, Czech Republic. Well, on the train ride there, I’d booked a first class ticket, supposed to include: Coffee/tea service My own seat separate from anyone A table for work And finally, full WiFi coverage What I got wasn’t that. Instead, I ended up with: […]
Weekly Wrap: March 6th
Missed the weekly wrap-up last week. Of course, the week after I said I was going to start. Heh. I spent three entire days traveling last week. From Kotor I went onward to Serbia (loved that place!), and then onwards again. I’m now settled and quite happy with my new apartment. It now really feels […]
Kotor
The quietest place I’ve ever been. 13k people. More people live in a district in Kiev than that. But there’s a sense of “know”. Everyone at the grocery stores knows me by now. The girls giggle when they have to speak English to me (thankfully, they speak quite well). This is the kind of place […]
Istanbul
Split between Europe and Asia, Turkey’s crowned jewel city–Istanbul–is a hypnotic blend of Asian cheesiness, Middle Eastern religion, and European culture all wrapped into one beautiful and vast city. In all my travels so far, I’ve never seen anything quite like it. What do I mean by the above? Asian cheesiness: Thousands and thousands of […]