Month: August 2007

Rocking on in the Fatherland! Ive been working in Darmstadt this week so I took a weekend to enjoy Frankfurt, which is the very first European city Eurotrip2006 hit last year, so theres a fair few memories. Darmstadt is a nice little university centered place about 20 minutes away and Ive been enjoying the local… Continue reading Ich Bin Im Ze Vaterland

News about the current Georgian / Russian incident this week has even reached to the other side of the world, but as usual our media does care so much if it happens way "over there" so heres a brief roundup of what went down this week. Heres what both sides more or less agree on SOMEONE… Continue reading Gerogia Gets Bomb Dropped On It, Has A Cry

I have talked before on the subject of booze prices and restrictions in Nordic countries, namely how the Swedish system is closed tighter than Putins rear end but today I am on the err.. rear side of this equation, getting the cheaper booze down south. So heres how it works up in these parts. Sweden… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… Booze In the Nordics, Part II

So for some background, Georgians are their own independant race of people, taking influences from all those around them, Russia, Europe and the Middle East but being distinctive and different also. At the top of the land known as Georgia there are a few provinces where the people are not Georgian, however when the Soviets… Continue reading Cultural Learnings Of… South Ossetia

Its long I know but its a good story, possibly the best of eurotrip, I mean its not everyday you get shaken down by the KGB right? Do remember most conversations in this story happened in Russian and they were translated to me after the fact. Most of the time I had a fair idea… Continue reading What Went Down in Georgia… Getting Into South Ossetia

Cop all the photos in the gallery This weekend passed was the 3 day long annual Folk Festival or pärimusmuusika in Viljandi, right in the middle of Estonia. Its an awesome 3 day event where people camp out or get shelter with anyone they know who lives locally, drink lots of ciider and beer and get… Continue reading Viljandi Folk Festival