Monthly Archives: September 2011

Wherein I do not make a pun involving the Balkans (Slovenia and Croatia)

After sharing an overnight sleeper car with two lovely, polyglot young women (German, English, French, Bosnian), we arrived worse for the wear in Ljubljana, Slovenia.  The train station had a grim, Soviet air about it, but the center of town … Continue reading

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Rich-oh-lah (A Trip through Swizterland)

Imagine a beautiful, peaceful country full of mountains, green pastures, and bubbling brooks.  Sounds nice, right?  America’s got plenty of all of those things, but I would venture that nowhere in the world has them in quite the concentration as … Continue reading

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