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05/28/06 // Blog Post from Hotel, Vienna // Vienna // Austria
I Don’t Sleep I Dream Once you pass through the odd and oversized foyer, which feels like a half finished storefront for H&M or the like, stairs lead up to the first floor. There are essentially only two rooms that bear any resemblance to what the place looked like in his day. In glass cases are a few knickknacks, figurines, actually it’s a rather impressive … continue reading » Topics: Art, Artists, Dreams, Europe, History, Museum, Round The World Trip, War
05/26/06 // Blog Post from Prague // Prague // Czech Republic
Four Minutes Thirty-Three Seconds “He tried to gather up and hold the phrase or harmony… that was passing by him and that opened his soul so much wider, the way the smells of certain roses circulating in the damp evening air have the property of dilating our nostrils.”— Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way Places have signature colors, they inscribe themselves onto you in liquid strokes … continue reading » Topics: Architecture, Death, Europe, Holocaust, Human Rights, Memory, Round The World Trip, War
05/22/06 // Blog Post from Hotel, Bled // Bled // Slovenia
The King of Carrot Flowers Part Two The chief attraction of Bled Slovenia is the sweeping panorama of the Julian Alps which lie just beyond its doorstep, which in this case is a lake ringed with castles, monasteries atop crags and palatial hotels that once played host to kings and queens. But owing to a change in the weather which turned from the perfect sunshine of the … continue reading » Topics: Butterflies, Children, Europe, Flowers, Memory, Mountains, Round The World Trip, War
05/17/06 // Blog Post from Hotel Dubrovnik // Dubrovnik // Croatia
Feel Good Lost From Lake Plivtice we drove west over the coastal mountains and down to the Dalmatian seaside where the highway hugs the shore and fantastic views of the Adriatic Sea and nearby islands come rolling around with every point and harbor of the shoreline. From the road I watched the cobalt seas specked occasionally with a yacht or fishing boat and … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Beach, Europe, Home, Round The World Trip, War
05/15/06 // Blog Post from Lake Plitvice // Lake Plitvice // Croatia
Blue Milk It’s hard to understand, standing on the banks of such crystalline, cerulean lakes, whose dazzling colors come from the mineral rich silt runoff of glaciers, that the largest European conflict since world war two began here, at Like Plitvice Croatia. But indeed this is where the first shots were fired on Easter Sunday in 1991 and the first casualty was … continue reading » Topics: Europe, Karst, Lakes, Mountains, Nature, River, Round The World Trip, War, Waterfalls
03/18/06 // Blog Post from Land Mine Museum // Siem Reap // Cambodia
…Wait ‘til it Blows From Battanbang we headed northeast by boat to Seam Reap. The journey was a tedious and very shallow one. The guidebook makes a passing mention of the fact that local villagers are not all that fond of the tourist ferry boats and having ridden some way on the roof and watched the wake sink longtail boats left and right and … continue reading » Topics: Americans, Asia, Boats, Round The World Trip, Uxo, War
03/14/06 // Blog Post from Killing Fields // Phnom Penh // Cambodia
Blood on the Tracks It was a fittingly dull grey overcast sky, remnants of the previous night’s thunderstorm which kept me up for an hour or more while I sat on the spare bed beneath the window watching the room light up like a dance floor under a strobe, it had stopped raining, but it was still cloudy when I climbed on the back … continue reading » Topics: Asia, Khmer Rouge, Killing Fields, Ngo, Round The World Trip, War