Here I am in Amsterdam, an uncognizant (word?) poet. The public library has a free 30 minute Internet access period so I’m typing away furiously here. Amsterdam is expensive, expensive, expensive. If you want to go in anywhere, it’s at least 5€. Food is silly too. At least it’s relatively compact and walkable, so we […]
You’re going to have to wait for those, maybe forever… I’m tired and in a very bad mood from the trip here (Amsterdam) from Berlin. Actually, you will have to wait for a lot, since the Internet doesn’t grow on trees here. The server was down for a bit. It happens. It will probably happen […]
An ongoing bit of drama has been the issue of our daytrip to Prague. Things keep working and then not working, and the same for their alternatives. The current plan is to wake up in time for a 6h15 departure on a 26€ all-in semi-guided-bus-tour tomorrow. We will see. Pilnitz was nice but not a […]
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.
