Posts between 2019/04 and 2019/05 (18 out of 18)

🗁Added 33 photos to album Poland, April 2019.

We caught a bus at 6am for the 1.5 hour ride to the Auschwitz museum. We went at our own pace, and spent about 7 hours reading everything. Apparently the guided tour is 3 hours. Then we took the shuttle to Birkenau for another two or so hours walking around the open spaces. Less to read here, but the size of the place helps to impress the scale of the thing, in a way that hours in museum-type exhibits don't quite.

Having spent the last year visiting Second World War museums in countries all over Eastern Europe, the Baltics and Balkans, I didn't find it as intense as a lot of people seem to. I can understand why people are overwhelmed by coming here when all they have is a UK/Western Europe school-system education about the war (which largely neglects what actually happened across Eastern Europe).

The things affected me most were the huge piles of possessions, like shoes and glasses; some of the first-person stories in the country-specific exhibits; and the fact that similar atrocities are still happening all around the world right now. Bleh.

Wed 3rd of April 2019 at 7:08pm (+02:00)

I consider air travel only for emergencies and I generally have my own travel agenda, but what's the point of having me as your attachment-free digital nomad friend if I'm not going to drop everything and fly half way around the world to see you sometimes?

🏷 digital nomad life travel

Fri 5th of April 2019 at 10:46am (+02:00)

🗁Added 77 photos to album Poland, April 2019.

A bit over a week in Krakow. Touristing, cafeworking, but mostly eating. Also a trip to the Salt Mines, and a couple of nice runs by the river.

Fri 5th of April 2019 at 4:03pm (+02:00)

Week in review: 1 - 7 April

Ate and cafe worked around Krakow.
Visited the museum at Auschwitz.
Remotely attended a ODS Co-op OGM.
Bussed to Warsaw to see friends.
Ate and touristed around Warsaw. Visited for the second time the Warsaw Rising Museum, and the Palace of Culture and Science.
Made plans for the rest of April, and half of May. Surprising plans. But leaving space for this to take shape explains why I was blocked on figuring out what to do after Warsaw for so long.

🏷 poland life travel tourism

Sun 7th of April 2019 at 7:09pm (+02:00)

Places.. coworking spaces, restaurants, hostels.. that play music in the toilet.. give it a break. Don't you know people need to go hide out there to get away from overstimulating environments? Why you gotta take away one place for peace and quiet, for empty undisturbed space to think for two fucking minutes?

🏷 life

Mon 8th of April 2019 at 6:20pm (+02:00)

So I found a clinic I can walk into without an appointment and wait in line for an unspecified time for a cholera vaccine, this very afternoon.

All the google reviews for this hospital say it's better to die at home with dignity than go here under any circumstances, but the lady on the phone was nice.

Worst of all I can't eat for 3 hours before the vaccine and an hour after, so obviously now all I can think about is the really great seitan salad baguette in my bag that I didn't finish at breakfast and will not get to eat for at least a few hours from now ;_;

Wish me luck in these trying times.

🏷 poland travel life health

Tue 9th of April 2019 at 1:52pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 102 photos to album Poland, April 2019.

A week or so in Warsaw, experiencing squat life. Cafeworking, and revisiting my favourite vegan food places, and a bit of touristing as well.

Thu 11th of April 2019 at 10:52pm (+02:00)

Week in review: 8 - 14 April

Hung out, cafe worked and ate in Warsaw.
Failed to get a cholera vaccine, or a new laptop cable.
Nightbussed to Bratislava and holed up in a nice apartment for a few days.
Watched all of Cowboy Beebop.

🏷 warsaw poland week in review travel Bratislava, Slovakia

Sun 14th of April 2019 at 11:59pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 23 photos to album Bratislava-ish, April 2019.

A daytrip to Vienna from Bratislava to run some errands and watch the sun set over the Danube. And also to eat food at Gagarin (a super chill pay as you want anarchist cafebar), Veganista, and Swing Kitchen.

Mon 15th of April 2019 at 11:21pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 28 photos to album Bratislava-ish, April 2019.

Wandering and eating in Bratislava. Featuring food at Urban Coffee, Vegan Bar, and Made with Laf.

Thu 18th of April 2019 at 6:44pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 43 photos to album Bratislava-ish, April 2019.

Hiked to Devin Castle with Aila. No dogs allowed in the grounds, so we ate lunch by the river and hiked back over a big old hill. It was hot and beautiful and we didn't have enough water. The views were great though. Aila is the goodest of dogs.

Sun 21st of April 2019 at 10:54pm (+02:00)

Week in review: 15 - 21 April

Cafe worked around Bratislava, and ran and wandered.
Day trip to Vienna for stuff.
Went to Dubravka to move into H & B's hillside container house, sans plumbing and wifi. Settled in to look after the garden, and Beny the cat and Aila the dog for a while.
Read Tiamat's Wrath and rewatched Discovery.
Enjoyed the woods and the sunshine.
Hiked to Devin Castle and back over the hill.

🏷 week in review travel Bratislava, Slovakia petsitting vienna hiking

Mon 22nd of April 2019 at 11:59pm (+02:00)

I'm trying to figure out cat storage. Not sure I'm quite getting it yet.

how do i cat

🏷 cat life

Wed 24th of April 2019 at 2:19pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 33 photos to album Bratislava-ish, April 2019.

Moved into H and B's homemade container house on the hill overlooking Dubravka, just outside of Bratislava. I'm looking after Aila and Beny for a little while. No wifi or plumbing, water from the spring, walks in the woods.

Wed 24th of April 2019 at 2:46pm (+02:00)

🗁Added 33 photos to album Bratislava-ish, April 2019.

Walks in the woods with Alia; lounging around with Beny. Some cafe working in Bratislava and Vienna. Food pics from re:fresh, Govinda, Swing Kitchen, Harvest Cafe.

Sat 27th of April 2019 at 7:38pm (+02:00)

Packing for a big trip is easy when you own hardly any stuff. And getting my backpack down from 45l to less than 30l compressed to airline carryon size was pretty easy and fun. Just need to get rid of 1/3 of my stuff so it's this small all the time..

(Some things I'm leaving behind temporarily included my hammock, kitchen supplies, and my bag of misc random shiz that comes in handy from time to time, so they can't really go long term... but I'll figure something out. I'm leaving my jeans (they split) and winter coat for good though.)

🏷 digital nomad travel

Sun 28th of April 2019 at 3:06pm (+02:00)