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August | 2007 | New kid in the Bloc
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New kid in the Bloc. Archive for August, 2007. My introduction to CouchSurfing. Came through another expat, a dreadlocked American guy named Brandon who stayed at the hostel about a year before I did and returned to allegedly start his own youth hostel (no one has yet seen any evidence of these plans, however). He let me crash at his place that night, which as I recall involved substantial amounts of hruškovica. I got to Marin’s, and therefore to Croatia, through my CouchSurfing friend, not through...
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Surfin’ HRV | New kid in the Bloc
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New kid in the Bloc. August 12, 2007 at 5:16 pm. My introduction to CouchSurfing. Came through another expat, a dreadlocked American guy named Brandon who stayed at the hostel about a year before I did and returned to allegedly start his own youth hostel (no one has yet seen any evidence of these plans, however). He let me crash at his place that night, which as I recall involved substantial amounts of hruškovica. I got to Marin’s, and therefore to Croatia, through my CouchSurfing friend, not throu...
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March | 2007 | New kid in the Bloc
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New kid in the Bloc. Archive for March, 2007. Where I’m from, we just look for chocolate eggs…. Easter in Slovakia, according to Wikipedia:. In the Czech Republic. A tradition of spanking or whipping is carried out on Easter Monday. In the morning, males throw water at females and spank them with a special handmade whip called. A legend says that females should be spanked in order to keep their health and beauty during whole next year. (italics mine). Traditionally, the spanked female gives a coloured.
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New kid in the Bloc | Spread those maps out on my bedroom floor | Page 2
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New kid in the Bloc. Slovakia’s south coast. Header stolen from the Norfolk County tourism slogan, except slightly less ridiculous). I was supposed to leave for this trip about three days after I got back from my last one. I hadn’t had time to do laundry, let alone plan an excursion. And I was a little sleep-deprived and grumpy, to say the least. So I blew off my train ride and took Friday afternoon to decompress and plan. Region. Theoretically. If you have a car. Was lovely with great views and, unlike ...
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The far east | New kid in the Bloc
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New kid in the Bloc. June 5, 2007 at 10:41 pm. Having a translator let me ask people the questions I wanted to ask but didn’t know how. This was something my stories sorely needed. And having access to a car meant I was able to cover a lot more ground with a lot less frustration. But practicalities aside, it was also nice to have Silvia there for reasons like this…. Driving past a road sign for a village called Smilno). Silvia: Heh. Smilno. Steph: What does that mean? Steph: So it’s Adulteryville? Then t...
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You said you didn’t give a f— about hockey | New kid in the Bloc
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New kid in the Bloc. You said you didn’t give a f— about hockey. May 15, 2007 at 12:11 am. Canadians pride themselves on being the biggest hockey fans in the world. After the last few weeks, I can say without a doubt — that’s a myth. It’s absolutely not true. 8211; on Slovak hockey fans. For those of you living in Canada, the World Hockey Championships just wrapped up and Canada won. But most fans in North America probably didn’t even notice because the Stanley Cup playoffs are on. Fair enough. About a w...
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C.A.I.R.O.: November 2006
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FIREIN.C.A.I.R.O. Sunday, November 26, 2006. She's got it m.a.i.d. The other morning, I awoke to find the maid sitting on our couch in the living room yapping away at light speed on the telephone. Seriously, I'm not paying this woman to come in and use our phone so she can call Kuwait or whatver on my effing tab. Yo, I'm paying her to do the dishes and to pretend to dust and to take care of the laundry and to empty the garbages and to pick up my socks and the like. You know,. Monday, November 20, 2006.
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C.A.I.R.O.: January 2007
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FIREIN.C.A.I.R.O. Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Roomie Shane and I spent the weekend and a lot of money in Jordan this weekend. It was a good time. Highlights of the three-day stay included: floating in the Dead Sea with Jordanian peasants, scaling rose coloured rocks at the lost ancient city of Petra (which ranks among the coolest things of all times), talking politics and crimes of passion with Cheryl and decoding bourgeous menu choices at a stylish, fusion/meat-market restaurant in Amman. Posted by C....
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C.A.I.R.O.: October 2006
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FIREIN.C.A.I.R.O. Wednesday, October 25, 2006. Explosions have been going off all around Cairo for the past few days. Everytime I try and drift off to sleep, "BANG! And then I hear shouting and more banging. Most disturbingly, most of these explosions are caused by children.some as young as five or six years old. Okay, enough with the theatrics: the explosions are little firecrackers set off during the feast of Eid, which marks the end of the holy month of Ramadan. Other highlights over the past few week...
