Trouble With Dreams » travel

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sam — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 01:45:50 +0000

A birthday and people congratulate you (I hope with hand-clapping) because Facebook reminds them. Yesterday we went to the Museum on the Mound which was totally worth it because we a-built the Bank of Scotland and b-cracked the safe to get a reward of chocolate coins. And today we shall go to the beach, fingerscrossed the weather stays pleasant.

I put a few photos from travels on Flickr, take a look and tell me they’re hot. I managed to post so little on the way I didn’t get to use a single Mogwai song title.

Travel apologies

sam — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:15:28 +0000

So I’ve not been doing very well at keeping up with everything, I’ll catch up with it all when I’m home, = Edinburgh. It’s way too hot, there’s not enough time to post things to the internet that few people will read and I have a cold.

Warsaw and Kraków

sam — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 23:28:56 +0000

Poland is an overcast place, at least the few days we’ve been here. And a surprising proportion of public computers are running *nix

Spent a day too long in Warsaw; it’s coolnall but too sedate. Maybe the bar in the hostel distracted us from going out properly. Cheese graters for lamp shades, a novel use indeed. Some funky graffiti around, and all the grass is unkempt. The utter distruction of the city by the Nazis (85% ruined) in WWII makes the subsequent rejuvenation seem spectacular.

Kraków is far livelier. There’s a festival on at the moment celebrating 750 years of being a city, a great thing to chance upon - the first night we were here there was an hour long fireworks display along the Vistula with weird dragon floats going up and down the river to crazy dance music, last night was Tomasz Stanko playing in the main square. Found a wonderfully chilled jazz club afterwards and stayed there for the rest of the evening. The trio played a great rendition of Straight No Chaser.

There is a salt mine several kilmetres out of the city, a great example of what men will do purely because they can. And today was Auschwitz/Birkenau, ugly and awful and on an unimaginable scale.

Prague soon, we’ve been recommended a visit to the ‘church of bones’, built from some forty thousand skeletons 0_o

aaaaand they’re off

sam — Tue, 29 May 2007 11:39:29 +0000

To Warsaw. With no zlotys.

Should be interesting..