Over the past two months and a week, I’ve moved around a lot. I went from a college dorm on Long Island, to Connecticut, to Seattle, to Europe, and back to Connecticut. Today I moved (temporarily) to the lovely Borough of Queens, which Wikipedia says is on pace to take over Brooklyn’s title of most...
Days spent travelling/in Europe: 28 Nations visited: 7 (Italy, Vatican City, France, Monaco, Spain, Greece, Turkey) Greek Islands visited: 5 (Crete, Rhodes, Patmos, Mykonos, Santorini) Digital pictures taken: 1,236 Rolls of film taken: 10.5 People on the Med Highlights Reverse tour: 34 (not inc. me) People on the Golden Fleece tour: 21 (not inc. me)...
Don’t worry, friends and readers, this is going to return to its previous MP3 blog status. But part of the reason that I am extending the Europe blogging a bit longer is because being gone for a month sort of skews what you know about music that’s out right now. So while I finish up...
I took 1,236 (digital) pictures while I was in Europe, and about 8-10 rolls of film (but those aren’t developed and/or scanned yet). I didn’t want to make anyone sit through a ton of duplicates or bad shots, so here are the best of them. The visual documentation of (almost) one month in Europe
Is it really almost over? Am I really leaving tomorrow? We blazed a hot trail through the islands. Each stop gave us just a few hours to get a feel for each island, thus the internet was not even close to being a priority. I’ve written things down in my journal to capture the dreamy...
As I probably mentioned to many of you who I talked to before my trip, a huge part of this trip was my desire to go to Greece. After seeing pictures of Greece from my friends Clara & Kyle’s trip last year, I knew I had to go. I’ve only been in Athens for a...
The past few days have truly blown by, especially our time in France. We only had one full day in Nice (and it was Sunday, so most things were closed), before it was off to Avignon. Overall, we pretty much breezed through France, but not before stopping in Aix-En-Provence, hometown of Cezanne, and Carcassonne, which...
Bonjour from Nice! We arrived in France yesterday night, and though I was sad to leave Italy, there’s a bit of familiarity to France for me. I realized just a few days ago that being in Italy was my first time alone in a country where I don’t speak the language, and I managed just...
A few lines from my journal before I head off on a walking tour of Florence… “Rome is beautiful. The pastel-colored buildings are so much more inviting than America’s monotone monstrosities. Piazza Navona reminds me a lot of Montmartre, with the painters and cafés. Trevi Fountain also stunning — too bad we’re not allowed to jump...
I don’t have much time — I somehow managed to spend 22 of my 30 minutes looking at e-mails… Spent the last two days in Rome, which I absolutely fell in love with. Saw the Spanish Steps, Trevi Fountain, Colisseum, though I didn’t go inside. I spent a lot of time in the area right...
Well, friends, family & readers, today I’m leaving to roam around the Mediterranean for about a month. There was a lot more I wanted to write about before I left — Harvey Danger, the albums that got me through finals — but it’s just not going to happen before my flight leaves in 2-3 hours....
A lot of people tend to think that I immediately hate anything that’s mainstream/Top 40. While this may be true more often than not, just like with anything else, there are exceptions. I’ve never had any problem giving credit to pop performers who are legitimately talented. I’ve never had a problem with Christina Aguilera, though...
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