After a day or checking out the mountains and cross-country skiing in Davos, our host Sven also recommended a concert happening that night atthe hotel he works at in Davos. After a coffee overlooking the town from a nearby slope, we headed to the monastery-turned-hotel to watch (of all things?) […]
Tag: Europe
Photo Slideshow: Vienna, Austria (R)
I was pleasantly surprised by Vienna, and how pleasantly enjoyable a city it was. I went in with the mindset of “get visas (for Central Asia) and then get out”, which can sometimes be a dangerous thing. I could have easily gotten tired of the place, felt a little aimless. […]
The Place to Stay in Athens (R)
It seems only fitting to open discussion of Greece with my whirlwind couple of days in Athens. I was only in town for 4 days, hardly enough for one of the world’s oldest and most important capitals of culture. Almost every day was spent running around buying maps (exciting news […]
It Smells like Hippies. (R)
Christiania was not itself a surprise, as I’d known for a long timeĀ about the little semi-autonomous community wholly inside of Copenhagen. Nor were the hash vendors/smokers/paraphernaliers on the main street (semi-cleverly known as the Green Light Zone), as the hash seems to be the most famous raison d’etre of the […]