Archive for June, 2004
I should have mentioned in my previous email the joy of travelling by train from Cesky Krumlov to Dorfen. After my encounter with the siren of Kaplice, we had another very quick stop in the city of Linz. Now, you should know by this point that i´m doing the entire trip without a Lonely Planet […]
St Petersburg, Petrograd, Leningrad, St Petersburg. Whatever it may have been called, it’s been here since 1703 (they had the city birthday last Thursday) when Peter the Great decided he wanted a great big cultural city that would act as a link to the West, via the Baltic, while also providing a fortified defense to […]
In this email: Buskers. Drunk men playing cards in childrens’ playground in the middle of the afternoon. The best toilet in Helsinki. And so much more.
Buskers in Helsinki rock my sweet little world. I never thought putting a banjo player together with a trumpet playing and getting them to play Lullaby in Birdland could actually […]