Balderdash

Bloody hell. The idiot French guy in the Internet Cafe in Nimes I asked - nay, paid €5 - to burn my photos to CD didn't burn everything....

My travelogue now stretches over the equivalent of about 15 sheets (30 pages) of A4 paper. I foresee that it will take me at least a month, ...

Current location: Utrecht, Hostel Strowis How fitting that I should spend one of my last nights in Utrecht in the same place where I spent...

Current location: Brussels I'm back in the City of Piss after almost 3 months. The summer heat seems to be exacerbating the smell. S...

Current location: Nimes After Italy, France is a refreshing change. Instead of Italians chattering at me in Italian, which I dont understa...

Does anyone know the significance to this song? I heard a bunch of (query sephardic?) jews singing it while standing in a circle in a kosher...

I just dropped my phone in a Venice shower and the screen cracked. Great. 12 days to returning to Utrecht and 16 to Singapore!

I love pissing off anal museum guards. I think this one took it particularly hard, since she lectured me the most of all the offenders. Heh ...

Luckily Screwed Up Girl reminded me about the module preference exercise, or I'd have missed it. I just put 3302 and 3304 down since pla...

SNCF lets me book the night train ticket I want online, even giving me a car and seat number. Yet the woman at the counter at the train stat...

It's over, got a police warning. Not going to be charged in court. End of story. Somewhat. I probably might be going back to blogging, b...

The SNCF site is wonky and though they let me book the night train last night the woman at the train station claimed there were no seats (Ro...

Due to my delaying due to wanting to save on transaction costs by booking both my night trains (Riomaggiore [Cinque Terra]-Venice; Avignon-R...

Oh my feet. My poor feet. I think I'm suffering from a church overload. I think I'll just go for St Peter's to wrap it up. The...

My only major regret about today is that I didn't manage to see the paintings at the Capitoline Museum. I found a locked door in front o...

Current location: Rome It's damn hot, but what the hell, I've spent 22 years in Singapore and 4 months on the Island of Doom. Th...

Current location: Bruges 3 World Heritage sites in a day. This must be a new record! Note to self: never again forget that "rode p...

Throwing away stuff is depressing. Especially when I think of how much future tenants would like things like pillows, duvets, bedsheets, pil...

July plan : 30 june Leave Utrecht, Sleep in Bruges (Train - €22,70) 1 jul - Bruges/Ypres (Train - €10,80 - weekend return), sleep in Bruges ...

I imagine that there're many patriots traveling on the Belgian rail network ("Reduction [on fares]: 'Patriotic reasons'...