The cops led us over to the side of the street where they had a van waiting and asked to see our identification. Our Romanian pals handed over their IDs and Bedlam and I gave them our passports. My first thought was “Are these guys legit?” I had heard stories of scams where people pretended [...]
Before we arrived in Bucharest, I joked to Bedlam that to do something entertaining we should attempt to make ourselves “interesting” to Romanian intelligence services. With the upcoming NATO summit, the cops are out in full force and tensions are high, so they’re on the lookout for troublemakers. He pointed out that these intelligence services [...]
As far as hostels go, the Butterfly Villa is pretty nice. Lonely Planet rates it the best hostel in Bucharest and it’s not hard to see why. It’s a nice place, it’s not too crowded, they have all-day breakfast and free wireless internet. We met some pretty cool people our first night and since we [...]
We were about as unprepared as two people could be for an international trip to a country we knew nothing about. We spent too long hanging around the office before heading to the metro, so by the time we finally stumbled off the metro and into the airport we had about 15 minutes before the [...]
When you’re stuck in a completely foreign third-world country where nobody speaks your language and the entire place is shut down due to strikes and riots, there’s only one thing to do: pick a new country where they aren’t on strike!
Romania’s not too far away and I’ve never been there, so next week I’m heading [...]
One thing that I’ve heard repeatedly since arriving in Athens is that it never snows here since it’s too warm and we’re too close to the sea. It might snow in the villages and in the north, but it’d never snow in Athens itself.
You can imagine my surprise when I came back to Athens from [...]
Since everyone’s been asking what Athens is like and bugging me to post pictures, I finally got off my rear end and uploaded a few. You can check out the Athens photo gallery.
I labeled them in iPhoto right after I uploaded them, which means the captions didn’t make it online. Doh! The Athens photos are [...]
Sadly, this isn’t the kind of adventure where you go in a sewer and laundry attacks you but you kill it with your flashlight.
When I got this apartment in Athens, it came with a washing machine in it which I assumed would make it easier for laundry. Unfortunately for me, all the buttons and switches [...]
I’ve been in Athens for about 3 weeks now and since my command of the Greek language could be described as something less than masterful, I’ve been trying to meet some young english-speaking people or expats I could hang out with. I was a little surprised to find that there is a craigslist for Athens, [...]
What do you do when you really want to build a church but you don’t have any wood or stones lying around?
Let’s build it out of bones! I went to Kutna� Hora (not far from Prague) to see the famous church made out of bones. We also saw St. Barbara’s Church (not made out [...]
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