Where Dave Is
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Vilnius LithuaniaWell we rolled across the border into Lithuania around 4am and hit Vilnius around 830am. I got more sleep than I expected thanks to some fairly creative positioning but still overnight buses are not a comfortable way to travel...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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On a night bus to Vilnius, Lithuania.Still feeling weak after last nights bathroom rendezvous with JC I woke up later than intended but still managed to pack my bag and exit this most holy and sanctimonious place of worship without further encou...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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Being saved or damned by the porcelain god.
Sleeping peacefully in my bed in the abbey with the door securely locked I was brutally awakened around 330 am by tremendous gastrointestinal pain. You know how sometimes with cows and goats if th...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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Not so much finding god as hiding from him.Well I skipped the first 5 events on the monk daily calendar, though I briefly woke up at the 530am wake up bell. While the pious were up and busy at work I slept on. Ill give the monks credit, their dep...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Krakow.Well I thought the bar for worthless hostel dwellers had been set pretty high last night but I had no idea. Turns out someone in the bachelor party shit in the tub during the night. In retrospect this shouldnt have come as a surprise a...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Krakow.Well I thought the bar for worthless hostel dwellers had been set pretty high last night but I had no idea. Turns out someone in the bachelor party shit in the tub during the night. In retrospect this shouldnt have come as a surprise a...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Krakow.I really had to divide today into two separate posts because it would be an insult to the power of Auschwitz to put it together with the inanity I witnessed in the evening.
Back in Krakow (after a 90 minute bus ride that I had to spend ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In AuschwitzI went to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp today. My usual styling of rambling commentary and obscure pop-culture references could hardly convey its intensity, so I am just gonna make a few brief comments about the presentation e...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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in Krakow, Poland.It rained. I spent all day on the train.
I did nothing interesting. I saw nothing interesting. I cant even write anything interesting.Maybe tomorrow.
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Plzen, Czech Republic.I know, I know. You see that picture and you think I shouldve learned my lesson after yesterdays prolonged death scene. And, I did, that lesson being never accept multiple shots from Celtic fans at 2am on an empty stom...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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Dying.WARNING: Parts of this are potentially Not Safe For Work (NSFW)
Now to be fair the title came from a poster I saw at a game in Austria which read, Sex, Drugs and Rapid Wien but it just fit so much better with todays events.
Not to say mu...
05/04 Rarely has so much effort yielded so little payoff, or so much Pictionary led to so much pain.
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Prague.I visited Prague the last time I backpacked and while I enjoyed it there were few things I really felt like I needed to revisit. Instead I have a whole list of things from my Weird Europe book that I wanted to Czech out. (Bah dum bum).
...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Prague.Pretty low key day. After another excellent breakfast (but no critiques about the healthiness of it) Rosie and I hit the road for Prague. Nothing interesting about the two bus trip cept the fact that the 4 hour trip cost $5, and that I ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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Kayaking in Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.This place is amazing, so amazing I even ate breakfast which is a rare occurrence even if its free. This wasnt but might as well have been it was so cheap. And it came with free abuse from the waitres...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Cesky Krumlov, Czech Republic.Did you know today is May 1st (I was vaguely aware of this.) and did you know that is Mayday the holiday of the worker here in Eastern Europe (I feel I was aware of this sometime in the past) and therefore very l...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Bratislava, Slovakia.Id heard there really wasnt all that much to Bratislava so I figured Id just do Slovakia as a day trip from Vienna. I dont think it even amounted to that. Ever do a country in about 6 hoursFirst sign this place wasnt ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In ViennaI really try hard not to be the prejudiced, asshole American but I think Italian men have just leapfrogged the frogs as my most hated foreigners list. As if to punish me for oversleeping for football a group of these gelled hair, expensi...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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Watching American style football.Sigh, well disappointments can occur even in the most perfect of places and I guess I was overdue for a downer but today was tough.
Everyone has those moments they will look back on with regret for the rest of...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Vienna.Today belonged to Hundertwasser (full name Friedensreich Regentag Dunkelbunt Hundertwasser. Great name.) One of my favorite artists (though the list is pretty damn short to start with) this town belongs to him less than Gaudis hold on ...
Posted by Where Dave Is 1 year ago.
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In Vienna.There are times when you just have to fall down and thank whatever higher power you subscribe to (in my case Ditka) for putting you in the right place at the right time. That place is Viennas Esperanto Museum and that time is now.This ...
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