Mostly cats, along with a few other sights.
Santiago October 202337 photos
have only a handful of photographs of my father. One taken shortly after I was born shows a man, already old, wearing what looks inexplicably like a North Korean army hat cocked at a ridiculous angle on his head, wearing the weary eyes of someone who doesn’t want to be photographed and holding a massive fish in one hand. It’s winter in the photo, and a cat, little...
My dominant memory of Munich may not be the majestic town hall in the city center, but it might just be the aggressively earnest rapper who was helping promote a vegan event and fair in the square in front of it. His passion for his cause was perhaps unmatched by his skill as a lyricist, though, as during the hour I wandered around the square, he performed the same...
Malta is the kind of place where bus schedules seem to offer less a guarantee that a bus will arrive at the appointed time than a hope, but it’s also the kind of place where your Airbnb host will, when you ask if you might do some laundry, insist that she’ll do it–and the next morning you’ll find your clothes hanging from the clothesline. Malta is the kind of...
The contempt airlines seem to have for their passengers is staggering. We pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for the privilege of flying on increasingly packed flights with an ever-decreasing list of amenities on board only matched by the growth of various fees and charges that complete the frustration of commercial flight. In exchange for those hundreds of dollars...
As the snow falls again in Helena today, I’m finding myself more excited about my spring break trip, one that will involve three nights in Munich, six on Malta, and about 23 hours in Reykjavik. While I have been to Reykjavik more times than most people deserve to and have a pretty good sense of how I’ll spend my time there (hello, Sandholt, Harpa...
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