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In the vein of both Dooce and Pawcurious, I've decided to compile a list of my favorite posts from this past year. This should have been not hideously difficult, given that I didn't blog much if at all for a fair amount of the year (I somehow only managed ONE post in August -- can you believe it?) but yet →
Euro Trip Day 23: Sarajevo to Zagreb
This post is coming a bit late because it seems like our internet access always seems to die on us in the evening, which is when I'd prefer to be sitting around working on things like reservations for upcoming cities and blog posts and the like. In any case, most Zagreb museums are closed on Mondays, for some reason (we →
Welcome to Zagreb. Here's your… Esperanto??
Welcome to Zagreb. Here's your... Esperanto??, originally uploaded by Kari_Marie. Seen on a tourist information board in the Zagreb train station. Win. :-D
Euro Trip Day 22: Bus ticket to Sarajevo, 24€. Watching men argue over a giant outdoor chess set: Priceless.
I'm posting early because we're leaving for Zagreb this evening and I don't know if I'll get a chance to get to wifi between now and then. This morning we hit up the National Museum and the History Museum. They were both good, but the National Museum was very stark and depressing: half of it dealt →
Euro Trip Day 21: A depressing historical post (with past and present pictures)
I'm warning you in advance that this is going to be a depressing post, so don't be leaving comments that this made you want to go eat a pint of Ben and Jerry's or something. Sorry, my lame attempt at humor here. With today's post, I'm going to post some before and after pictures of the way stuff was and the →
Euro Trip Day 20: Pieces of History
The above picture is the street corner in Sarajevo where Bosnian Serb nationalist Gavrilo Princip assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, kicking off World War I. I remember being fascinated by this when I took AP European History... Never did I think I'd be here. Crazy. Today was a slow day. We both were kind of mentally shot after the past two crazy →
Euro Trip Day 19: May our children never have to rebuild bridges someone else has destroyed
. Yesterday we went to Mostar, Bosnia, the site of some pretty intense fighting during the Bosnian War. To sum up part of a pretty complicated conflict, the Bosnians wanted to break away from Yugoslavia. So they aligned with the Croatian army (also part of Yugoslavia) and the two pushed out the Yugoslavian Army from the town of Mostar. Then the →
Euro Trip Day 18: It could have been worse. There could have been juggalos
This will be a very short post. Why? Because I have to leave for the train station in 30 minutes to drop my bags off, and also, I already wrote this post once, and I don't want to write it again. What happened to it? Lemme quickly recap yesterday: What was supposed to happen: We were supposed to get up early, get →
Here, have a map. :-)
Here's a point-to-point map of where I've been thus far -- I'm going to try to keep it updated when we switch cities. :-) You can click on it and zoom in to see details from where I've been. You can also click on the symbols to see in what cities we stayed, what type of place we stayed →