It’s a quiet rainy Saturday morning and I am on my second cup of free apartment complex coffee. It is a pretty young crowd in my neighborhood with lots of breweries and bars within walking distance. So mornings are pretty quiet around here. 😉 I have a couple of hours of quiet and solitude before I need to quit procrastinating…
Since the holidays are upon us and I am woefully behind in keeping up with TrippinWithDon.com, I figured that I should let you all know that I have not somehow become a married-with-children suburbanite driving a minivan or possibly worse, in some ditch on the side of the road getting my bones picked clean by giant vultures. “Surely”, you’re thinking,…
Best laid plans and all of that. I didn’t have any plan or desire to come to Ibiza, Ibitha, Ibisa, or however its spelled. My timing was off to see my friends on the neighboring island of Mallorca so I had to adjust. Mallorca is expensive Ibiza is off season cheap. So here I sit in an off-strip Ibiza hotel…
I came to a fork in the road after Poland. Prague and Vienna are pretty close to each other but in different directions. I have not been to either, but going to both would have required a day’s worth of backtracking. I have just about had my fill of Europe’s old cities. Sure they are pretty and all but…
Poland is not on a lot of people’s must see list. It kind of why I wanted to go. I did have pretty low expectations given that it had been under the Russian thumb since the end of World War II and has only been freed up since 1990. I didn’t think there would be much to see but I…
I decided early on that I wouldn’t plan anything more than a couple of days ahead. It has been working out pretty well. I stay in a place until I don’t. It works here in Europe because there isn’t much of a last minute decision fee on tickets and fare. Or at least not much of one. That has worked…
I had to fly to Kiev from Vilnius. I would liked to have bused in via Minsk in Belarus but they side with Moscow. Visa requirements for me would have made it expensive, complicated and take a long time to process. It was just a little over an hour flight and when I landed it was sunny and in the…
I bet that title brings back some memories. I am in Kiev now. I think there is some sort of city wide free music fest going on. There seems to be a lot of stages put up all over town. I came across this show tonight. Very coincidental considering my blog post this morning. Sorry for the quality. You tube…
Just in case you didn’t know, the Baltic States are (north to south) Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. They are sandwiched in between the Baltic Sea and Russia. In fact, except for World War II when the Nazi’s took over, They have been under Russia’s thumb for a good chunk of the 20th Century. They only became sovereign countries since the…
I have been in the Scandinavian Countries for the past couple of weeks. This afternoon, I am happy to be watching the coast of Finland fade into the distance from a ferry cruising across the Baltic Sea. Its not that they are particularly bad places, In fact they are quite nice, if bland and orderly is your thing. I was…