Been a while since I have posted anything. I cannot find the apostrophe on this keyboard so there will not be any contractions; anybody who cannot handle that should cease reading this post. KK came and met me in Rome two days ago from NYC. Her first time to Italy, my third, I win. Plus I am related to actual Italians as well. We cruised around the city pretty good for really only having a day and have eaten very well. The only thing we really missed was the Vatican, hope to hit that up on the way back. We are heading to Cinque Terre in about an hour. I have had three caffe americanos this morning (they were free at the hostel), so I am a little wired...Pre Rome I spent five days in Rhodes, Greece chilling on the beach pretty much and trying to conserve money. It helped that the girl i was traveling with was very thrifty and basically did not eat hardly anything, yet managed to buy clothes. We all have our priorities I suppose. I hope everyone is doing well and send me emails to let me know what is up with you and if you can employ me in some fashion when I return to the USA, or if anyone wants to meet up along the way. Allright, sorry this was not very exciting, but now I must adjourn to the bathroom.
Ciao,
BPP
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Friday, October 3, 2008
Biding Time
It's 4:55 (just looked at my watch), Will and I are sitting in our hostel dreading walking in the rain to our ferry which leaves at 6:30 to Bari, Italy. We just walked home a little while ago from some Croat club, a guy we were with, a Brit, got semi-jumped walking by himself. I think he got kicked in the back. All is good though, he's a tosser (a good British term), not really though, he's actually pretty cool. My jeans are soaked and we have only paid to go one stop on the ferry, which is about an hour to this Croatian island but we are hoping to stay on and make it to Italy. Guess we'll see what happens, should be a pretty helatious ride...
Thursday, October 2, 2008
An Idea
So, as some of you might be aware, America is electing a new president in about a month. I feel like I have been so disconnected that I dont know what the hell is going on. Thankfully, at the moment, I have access to fast, free internet with minimal disruptions; hence, I am a fiend (as you can see from the amount of posting I am doing).
I watched the first presidential debate on youtube and thought it was really good. I think the VP debate tonight should be a good one as well; I expect Biden to win that one. Anyways, my idea is to start a blog or at least document a portion of the international community's views on the upcoming elections, hopefully through commentary and video. People are pretty interested in discussing it in the first place, so it seems to make sense. Over the next month, I will be in Croatia, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel pre-election. If I actually follow through with this, I also think it would be interesting to have a post-election deal of the same sort too. Let me know your thoughts and if anyone knows an efficient way of posting this stuff.
I watched the first presidential debate on youtube and thought it was really good. I think the VP debate tonight should be a good one as well; I expect Biden to win that one. Anyways, my idea is to start a blog or at least document a portion of the international community's views on the upcoming elections, hopefully through commentary and video. People are pretty interested in discussing it in the first place, so it seems to make sense. Over the next month, I will be in Croatia, Italy, Greece, Turkey and Israel pre-election. If I actually follow through with this, I also think it would be interesting to have a post-election deal of the same sort too. Let me know your thoughts and if anyone knows an efficient way of posting this stuff.
Some captions to the pics below are (for some reason I cant wrap text around these pictures, still trying to figure that one out...and losing):
1) Stephen, Josh and myself in Barcelona enjoying some wine in August
2) This is my friend Arturo receiving assistance from a Spanish man in Monchil, Spain. Arturo was trying to fill up my water bottle after a few hour hike in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The water from this fountain only shot straight up, so there was a predicament here. With much patience and creative thinking these two were able to fill the bottle 75% in about 5 minutes. It was amusing
3) Me being pumped to go into the Vienna zoo
4) Me in Amsterdam maybe
5) A sunset over the ocean in Cadiz (south of Spain). The sun disappeared into the ocean in about five minutes; it was pretty amazing. If you click on the pic, you can see a sailboat approaching from the left. I have another pic with the sailboat directly in front of the sun (dont ask me why I didnt post that one).
1) Stephen, Josh and myself in Barcelona enjoying some wine in August
2) This is my friend Arturo receiving assistance from a Spanish man in Monchil, Spain. Arturo was trying to fill up my water bottle after a few hour hike in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The water from this fountain only shot straight up, so there was a predicament here. With much patience and creative thinking these two were able to fill the bottle 75% in about 5 minutes. It was amusing
3) Me being pumped to go into the Vienna zoo
4) Me in Amsterdam maybe
5) A sunset over the ocean in Cadiz (south of Spain). The sun disappeared into the ocean in about five minutes; it was pretty amazing. If you click on the pic, you can see a sailboat approaching from the left. I have another pic with the sailboat directly in front of the sun (dont ask me why I didnt post that one).
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
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