Category Archives: Cameraphone
Euro Trip Day 37: Auschwitz: A world I can only envision in black and white
**Disclaimer: As the post title should indicate, this is kind of a downer of a post. Don’t say I didn’t warn you. Only for a bit, though — then it perks up towards the end.** Sunday July 11th, we got up early and got our bags packed, then took them to the train station and [...]
Euro Trip Day 36: Monks on Segways with flamethrowers
Since I’ve managed to get behind in blog posts, I’ve decided to make a concerted effort to post pictures and give a brief rundown of the day, at least until I’ve caught up. :-) July 10th John wasn’t feeling well, so he relaxed and I wandered around Krakow, seeing more of the historical things to [...]
What’s better than Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on the accordion? Toccatta and Fugue in D Minor on FOUR accordions!!
Watch these kids on the piano (old piano with the keys fused so that it was a public art piece rather than a piano.) HILARIOUS. These accordion players are a Ukranian group called Harmonia — I bought their CD of classical tunes. LOVE it. :-)
Euro Trip Day 35: Sleep, eat, rinse and repeat
So yeah… we really did nothing yesterday. It was glorious. We woke up late, lazed around reading, headed downtown, found some fairly mediocre pierogies for lunch, hung out in a park under a tree and read and napped, then headed back to our room, where we read, napped, and traded off the internet connection (we [...]
Euro Trip Day 34: I am 5,762 miles from home
You know how there are some sights that you’ll never, ever forget as long as you live? This trip’s been full of them for me, but stamped on my brain until the day I die will be watching the sun come up over the Polish countryside as the train chugged toward Krakow, and seeing an [...]
Euro Trip Day 33: Rugs with guns and trains with bunks
Wednesday, July 7th started somewhat busy as we went to run some errands and then head back to our hostel and proceed to conduct the now-usual jigsaw of trying to fit all of our stuff into our backpacks. We got packed up and went to the train station to get our tickets for the night [...]
Euro Trip Day 32: I don’t care if there are other neat cities. I want to stay in Budapest, darn it
I feel like I should specify that Day 32 was July 6th, since I’m not getting these posts posted before bedtime anymore, like I’d originally intended. My plan before I left was just to post one picture and a quick writeup of the day, but I like doing the longer posts (despite the time they [...]
Euro Trip Day 31: A water day from start to finish
This morning started bright and early when John and I headed to the Szechenyi Bath. One of the things Hungary is fairly famous for is its abundance of thermal baths, and while there are at least a dozen in Budapest alone, the Szechenyi is one of the most famous, and rightfully so. It’s huge, and [...]
Euro Trip Day 30: In which we get yelled at by an old lady on the bus, go to a Latin mass, get kicked off the subway, and end up at an apparently fascist rally
Ok, I’m a day late posting this. So sue me. My excuse is the world’s.WORST.upload.speed.EVAR. Even my cell phone camera pics are going slowly, and the ones from inside the sanctuary are my big camera. I did get this post at least STARTED on Sunday, though. :-p Yesterday we got up and took a metro [...]
Euro Trip Day 29: Art is long, life is brief.
I’m writing this post quickly because I need to get ready so we can head up to Buda Castle Hill to Matyas Church, where I’m going to a Latin high mass at 10AM. Neat! (I’m pretty sure I’ve mentioned it here before, but one of my goals this trip is to go to church in [...]