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Way of the King
On Wednesday morning, a friend tagged me in a Facebook clip of ‘the most dangerous hiking path in the world’. I watched it, saw it was in southern Spain, and replied, “holy fuck, I’ll go this weekend!”. Thus began a highly impractical series of misadventures. I was actually already supposed to be heading to Madrid…
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San José
I ended up in Costa Rica after meeting a Costa Rican guy on a course I attended in Fribourg Switzerland last year. The conversation pretty much went “you should come to Costa Rica”; “okay, that seems like a good idea”; and here we are. Anyway, the guy in question is called Guillermo, and he lives…
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No Dill
(13-Jul-15) Well here I am, back in vertical Germany, and finally starting to catch up on my Russia posts. Needless to say, they’re completely out of order—but what are you going to do about it?! Staying with Naz reminded me of all the little details about life in Russia. She and her Belorussian bf live in an…
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Ирония Судьбы Revisited
Arguably the most famous Russian film is Ironiya Sud’by, “The Irony of Fate”. It’s tradition to watch it every New Year’s Eve—those who’ve been reading for a few years may recall that I watched it on NYE when I was living here. It’s a very, very Russian story. Basically, it’s set during Communist times, when everybody lived…
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Herbie’s Big Adventure
Friday morning I managed 45 minutes of my French class before leaving sick. The only obvious cure was to spend the weekend going out in Brussels. Naturally, things didn’t go to plan. Friday evening started off well enough, taking a stroll through my suburb then heading to an Irish pub at around 22:00. One of the guys from uni…