Yesterday was a day of fairly standard sightseeing… the Church of Our Lady, the cathedral, the Saxon jewelry vault and painting collections, and the various sights of the Altstadt. Also saw the hosts’ son’s school, in GDR concrete glory. The streetcar system is nice and fairly foolproof. Last night, after stuffing ourselves at a late […]
Clever fellow that I am, I didn’t find my notebook before I left, so I will need to pick up one of those some time. We had a stunningly uneventful trip, starting at the stunningly uneventful airport in Huntington (HTS) where the check-in agents run back to do security screening (one flight at a time) […]
…but I’m safe in Dresden. More if there’s time, or maybe just a string of still here posts.
Good news: my visa for Hong Kong is supposedly in Lingnan’s hands. I’m sure I’ll be in Europe before it gets here, but I can wait.
For those of you interested in pictures and actual insight into Rio, unfiltered by years of family visits and LSAT panic, Niki is doing a ridiculously good job (until her camera gets stolen). The linked post includes pictures of the same restaurant in the Northeast Fair as I lunched at, and she’s got some nice […]
After a fairly boring trip, I’m back stateside. Got to the airport in Rio more quickly than I expected (with an excellent burned soundtrack provided by the cabbie), and got airside without any problem, which itself led to a problem: there’s nothing to do airside in Rio, unless you’re in to severely overpriced duty-free shopping. […]
My trial by excess of fattening food continues. Yesterday I ate at the Fluminense football (ok… soccer) club’s dinky little kilo restaurant with my soccer-obsessed great-aunt, saw the field, visited the shop, etc. In the evening I headed back out that way (near Lgo. do Machado) for a restaurant whose name I don’t precisely remember […]
This kept me up last night. For those of you not strong of Babelfish, there was a very, very loud shootout in the hills nearby about 1:30 this morning. Anyway… Lunch at a churrascaria rodizio (look it up and drool–it’s pretty much an all-you-can-eat meat pit) in Centro today with my godfather. Unsurprisingly, it was […]
Saw a couple bits of art today, one neat and the other not. The neat one was an exhibition of Cuban art, and the not-so-neat was an exploration of light and shadow in Italian art with focus mainly on the more mediocre shadowy works. After that went through Copacabana to Ipanema after dark, catching some […]
The path is Pista Cláudio Coutinho. Lunch was at a feira nordestina (a fair of food/crafts/etc. from the Northeast region of Brazil). Just got to look over my purchase from yesterday… an “Ironmen” watch. At least it’s not a counterfeit, or it’s an honest one. Should serve for the month or two I need it. […]
