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I went to Stockholm, Sweden for a long weekend with friends. The trip was, in two words, incredible and expensive. The incredible bit was due to the great group of friends I was with and the fact that Stockholm is full of delicious restaurants, beautiful women, and is set on picturesque islands and peninsulas, separated by [...] While Monty Python may have suggested some rather unsavory things about Yorkshire, it’s my favorite place in England. My godmother Tamar lives there in a 500 year-old stone farmhouse, with little heating and two-ton stone-slab door lintels that I always crack my head against. The door lintels are only 5’10″ high (that’s 180 cm for [...] I went to Tunisia a few months ago. I was living like a vagabond at the time, and staying at different friend’s places while they were abroad, but had a nine-day window of homelessness. So I looked around for cheap flights and hopped on one to Tunisia. It was my first trip to Africa, and was [...] When I think of England, it’s often through the prism of London, which is a wold-class city crammed with culture, excitement, and people. So it’s a breathtaking surprise when I find myself in the middle of the English Country-side. I spent yesterday and this morning at Bailey farm, a lovingly ramshackle collection of functional stone farm [...] Cheddar cheese apparently comes from Cheddar, England, or something like that. I’m not too sure, but my turophile friend Diana Pittet has a thing for Cheddar that exceeds socially-acceptable bounds for woman-cheese love. Hanging out with Diana normally just involves a passing mention of cheese, or even her pulling out a couple parchment-paper wrapped treasures that [...] I flew out with friends to Oregon. It was a mini-reunion, like the old days from college when we were on the crew team together, though the welcome addition of laughing children to the mix reminded us we were not kids anymore, but in a mysterious twist of fate had somehow become responsible [...] Going through my photos, I remembered the party I was at in Berlin where I got so drunk I thought I saw a bunny rabbit hopping around the room. Especially surprising as I had only had 3 beers. No, it was really a bunny rabbit. That’s him, sitting next to an ominous bag of charcoal [...] |
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