After two weeks of near constant rainfall, the levies are no longer holding. The train from Bochnia to Kraków is still in operation, but the lands surrounding the tracks are filling with river-water and submerging homes and roads. We are lucky being atop a hill, but the waterworks for our […]
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Simplistically, when you hear the word “Egypt”, the thoughts that bombard your skull tend to include the staple examples like “pyramid”, “mummy”, “Pharaoh”, “Nile”, “Cleopatra” and “Tutankhamen”. All well and good, if you ask me. These are what the crowds come for. These are the country’s pied piper, so to […]
Iceland … a tiny place, but definitely with aspirations for world domination! I feel bad for Iceland and its economic woes, I really do. The collapse of their banking system put many of Bjork’s fellow countrymen in dire straights, and I even think Damon Albarn from Blur lost out on […]
Friday, Jan. 22: Why does it seem all flights I have to take leave at an hour where most piss-heads come home tossing their cookies up from the pub? OK, I admit, the hour of actual departure was not so bad; it’s just the getting up three hours beforehand to […]
Ask anyone that knows me well and I am sure they will tell you that they don’t really find me the religious type, but I do try to have a sincere respect for anyone and everyone’s beliefs, and I try to keep my mind open. I truly feel that we […]
Thirty kilometres in two hours. It just wasn’t fair. They claim that one in every four people of driving age in Moscow has a car, and the ungodly traffic on the ring roads circling this city of nine million and leading to the airport add tremendous weight to this statement. […]
In the chance that something comes up, I think I’ll go mobile from time to time. Who knows! – Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
The preparation is actually the toughest part of the trip. Research, applying for visas, adjusting to any changes in the itinerary, checking the budget restraints, making sure the local guides will be who you want, sorting out an idea of restaurants and meals ahead of time, making sure your multiple […]
Not too long ago, I was in the middle of writing a blog about the fact that Poland was wet, cold and miserable in the middle of June. I was recalling how the summers six years earlier seemed to be longer and was making a statement on how people imagine […]
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It has been nearly 13 years since I packed up my bags and left the US for a change of pace. Life abroad has been much more satisfying to me, and the experiences I have had infinitely more grand than what seemed to be in my future should I have […]
A Canadian friend of mine, Rob, has been recently exiled to the Middle East for an indefinite period of time and has, of course, had to make the necessary adjustments in his life to deal with such a fate. Don’t feel that I am saying the Middle East is a […]
The “Cradle of Civilisation”; the “land of the burnt-faced men”, Abyssinia: home of the powerful Aksumite empire from the 2nd to 7th century A.D. – These are just some of the descriptions that have been granted upon Ethiopia through the centuries. Sounds majestic, does it not? Before I even go […]
I have been a fortunate soul as of late, and I am truly aware of this fact. For someone with a bad infestation of travel bugs (no, this is not slang for crabs or any other STDs), too little spare income over the past few years to enable me to […]
Halloween in Poland? Nope … don’t happen here. There are of course quite a few expat pubs around that host fancy dress parties that the occasional Pole will show up at, but these locals mostly just go due to the fact that they are either dating a foreigner or for […]
Time is never really on my side. Actually, to be truthful, I do not organise my time very well. I can organise people’s, though! I know, for the one or two people out there reading any of this, you may be saying to yourself, “hey, when is this tosser going […]