Bottom line: I love Berlin. Or maybe it’s just Europe. Or maybe it’s just not-Russia. Even though spending in the Euro zone is excruciating painful when a simple bottled water at 1,50 EUR really means 2+ American buckeroo’s, I’ve come back to the (more) capitalist system with a new (and happy) acceptance of inflated prices [...]
Posts Tagged ‘passport control’
Berlin: Prices, spirits, and thumbs–up, up & up (Jan 7-9)
Posted: January 17, 2010 in Germany, Winter TravelTags: "complimentary", AirBerlin, Berlin, Berlin Wall, Brandenburg Gate, breakfast, Checkpoint Charlie, currywurst mit ketchup, free press, gypsies, Holocaust Memorial, hostel, Jewish Museum, Meininger Hostel, museum, passport control, Reichstag, spankings, WiFi
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Week 8: Mongolia, Days 8-10
Posted: November 12, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: datsan, Italian restaurants, Mongolian Smithsonian, museum, passport control, Texan restaurants, the French, toys and puzzles
Day 8 (Sat., Oct. 31): Mongolian Tricks and Treats A sample of a pretty standard Mongolian music video, i.e. what you watch on state busses for hours on end as disco-lights make it all the more exciting, as we had done the day before: I had a nice sleep-in kind of morning our last [...]
Week 8: Mongolia, Night 0.5 and Day 1
Posted: November 2, 2009 in Mongolia (Fall)Tags: 350.org, Canadians, fellow foreigners, food, Mongolia, museum, Naushki, packing, passport control, rest, sugar, train
The saga of my trip with Romany to not-Russia, almost-Far-East Asia begins. To sum it up, and in honor of Asia, I’ll even compose a little haiku (with full knowledge that the haiku is, in fact, not a Mongolian poetry form). Train across the steppe. UB. Camels. Really far. Russia seems better. Publishable almost, right? [...]
Doing Moscow: ASAP (As Short As Possible)
Posted: September 6, 2009 in Out of TownTags: friends, Moscow, трудность, passport control
I think that I understand why Russian literature tends to be so lengthy: if I were to try to enumerate and explain everything that’s happened to me from moment one on the ground in Moscow to moment 3498523049857 sitting here in “my” room at “my” apartment here in Irkutsk typing a blog to post the [...]
