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posts labeled travel
06.29.2010
Getting groceries means having to cross the 70th parallel, which fills me with an unjustifiable sense of regret. There's something glorious about being out and about in my shirtsleeves at 70˚N that loses all its savor down at 69˚59'. Never mind that I am still north of all of mainland C...
Transnistria
06.21.2009
Next up is a pair of concrete barriers designed to break the momentum of any advancing Moldovan armored columns long enough for the Russian garrison in Tiraspol to wake up and mount a defense. This is Transnistria's . Two chain-smoking Russian soldiers f...
Into Moldova
05.08.2009
So the eastern half of Europe is very poorly and strangely connected. Ljubljana is practically on the Italian border, but getting from there to Trieste (72 km) means a seven hour train ride, despite the lack of any border formalities. Suceava (Romania) is 40 kilometers from Chern...
Idle Words Spring Offensive
04.18.2009
I will be heading east in a couple of weeks to nose around Moldova and Ukraine. I would love to meet people who live in Chisinau, Odessa, or the curiously skinny republic of (actual slogan: "Compared to Moldova, this is like the Riviera"). If you live there, or have contacts there, please drop ...
Bosphorous
12.01.2008
The is an overnight train from Bucharest to Istanbul, with a detachable portion that goes instead to Thessaloniki in Greece. I found out about it thanks to a man named Mark Smith, a British railway enthusiast with a of interesting rail journeys and how to book them. The rolls out o...
The Collapse of the Perito Moreno
03.25.2006
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A Morning In Iceland
11.21.2003
Hringbraut kee...