4/17/09 I should have gotten a picture but it didn’t work out. I was walking around today penniless and found a pretty nice suit coat and was already wearing my fedora. I reached in my pocket and found my harmonica and thought waht the hell, maybe Paris will take care of me if I put [...]
Paris is a whore
4/17/09 My banks have essentially raped me in Paris. Here is the latest example: I need to get from Paris to Rotterdam in Holland. I checked online and the price for a bus, the cheapest fare was 35 Euros. Well, having run into problems before, I usually carry a little bit of emergency cash. In [...]
The French countryside
I’m proud of catching the Madonna in these pictures, can you find her? I left Bordeaux to head to my friend Izzy’s in the small city of Thouars but the only way to get there was to have a five hour wait in Bordeaux or to wait for five hours somewhere else along the way. [...]
Vagobond in Bordeaux, France
Okay, I’m taking the piss a little bit here, but I thought Bordeaux overall was not a very groovy place. It had a nice free museum, the Musee d’Aquitaine with lots of anthropology stuff. Here is a list of all the hotels in Bordeaux with thousands of user reviews and multi site price comparisons. Yes, [...]
More rain in the Basque Country
Even though it was raining when I went through these places and so I didn’t stay…I liked the feel of them. These were perhaps the most magical areas I’ve been through in Europe so far. Very different places in different countries with different cultures, but unified by being Basque. Here is a complete list of [...]
