week-in-review
type: Article
content: 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.
name: Week in review: 1 - 7 April
published: 2019-04-07T19:09:00+02:00
tag: poland
tag: life
tag: travel
tag: tourism

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: 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.
name: Week in review: 8 - 14 April
published: 2019-04-14T23:59:59+02:00
tag: warsaw
tag: poland
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: bratislava

week-in-review-3
type: Activity
type: Article
content: 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.
name: Week in review: 15 - 21 April
published: 2019-04-22T23:59:59+02:00
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: bratislava
tag: petsitting
tag: vienna
tag: hiking

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Lived in a container house in the side of a hill in Dubravka, cat-and-dog-sat, went for lots of walks in the woods, fetched water from the spring, looked after the garden. Things sprouted! Occasionally cafe worked in Bratislava or Vienna. Ran to Sandberg and back. Relocated back to Bratislava city.
name: Week in review: 22 - 28 April
published: 2019-04-28T23:59:59+02:00
tag: run
tag: hiking
tag: bratislava
tag: travel
tag: housesitting

harare
type: Article
content: My travel plans and no-fly rule took an unexpected turn this month when I decided to visit Elizabeth in Zimbabwe. Having spent the last two years begging friends and family to take advantage of my various temporary residences in Europe, I was sympathetic to her plight of struggling to persuade people to visit in Southern Africa. I try to put into the world the energy I'd like out, so I tracked down return flights from Vienna for less than $500 with Ethiopian Airlines. I also really wanted to hug Elizabeth. Life In Zimbabwe, it is sunny every day. I was there at the start of winter. The sky was consistently brilliant blue, and the temperature was mostly in the late 20s Celsius. The climate is basically vacation-perfect. Never raining does not bode well for the crops though, and even though the temperature was good on paper the sun felt hotter and closer and more vicious than I've ever felt it anywhere before. Harare is a super green city, with lots of trees, bushes and maize or millet fields filling the wide open spaces between roads and blocks of buildings. Often the maize was looking dead and dried up, while decorative plants in public spaces or peoples' gardens are alive and well. Roads are concrete or dirt, scattered with enormous potholes in both cases. I was frequently a passenger in cars that needed to steer all the way around a hole rather than dipping into it or going over. The CBD is fairly built up, with some tall office buildings and malls, although I only passed through in the car a couple of times. Most of my time was spent taxiing between little pockets of reasonably well maintained commercial areas in the various suburbs. The self-enclosed bubbles of shops and cafes, supermarkets and cinemas, which depend on cars to travel between reminded me a lot of the US. It seemed like the other form restaurants and bars took were as stand alone properties in what felt like residential buildings in the more upscale residential areas. Many have lots of outside sea…
name: A couple of weeks in Harare, Zimbabwe
published: 2019-05-31T21:59:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: vegan
tag: zimbabwe
tag: africa
tag: travel
tag: harare

vegan-in-harare
type: Article
content: There was only one vegan place listed on happycow (V Delights), and I went there and it did not exist. The sign was up, and their website says "Restaurant is currently closed however you can still enjoy these meals by enroling to our Vegan or Gluten free Cooking classes as an individual or group!". Maybe it'll be back in the summer, who knows. The next best place for intentional vegan food (with a well-labelled menu) is Avocado Cafe in Sam Levy's Village. They have several dishes that are or can be made vegan, and plant milks for their variety of fancy coffees and latte drinks. They have energy balls which are vegan too. Maasdorp farmer's market is every Wednesday and Saturday, and I ended up going three times. It's a great place for handmade souvenirs and local produce. A nice lady sells homemade cashew cheese in blocks for 14 bond under the name BConscious. I bought one with jalapenos and one with olives and it was so good. Some of the best I've had. She told me about her imminent store opening (Vegan Vibes), the day after I was due to leave of course. Across the road from the Maasdorp farmer's market is another market and a Chinese grocery store. At the grocery store I found all kinds of tofu, fresh in big blocks as well as dried and flavoured. It's super cheap. At the market outside are freshly fried noodles and vegetables. You can choose your fillings, and there's even a bowl of seitan, and watch it get mixed up in front of you, then eat it on one of the benches in the market. They had vegetable bao, too. Ethiopian food is always a safe bet for vegans; I ate at Queen Makeda twice and it was delicious. The vegetarian menu is distinct and varied. The Ethopian coffee pot seems to be bottomless. Thai and Indian food are usually good options too; I ate Thai food at Chang Thai, which has many obviously-vegan vegetarian dishes, and was pretty good. On my last night, really amazing Indian food at Spice Lounge. Especially the milkless masala chai, which was properly spi…
name: Vegan in Harare, Zimbabwe
published: 2019-05-31T22:00:00+02:00
tag: https://rhiaro.co.uk/tags/zimbabwe
tag: harare
tag: vegan
tag: food
tag: travel

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Note-took in interviews for ODSCo-op developer hiring. Did some work on flatten-tool. Walked a bit around Bratislava environs, and went to Vienna again. Finally said goodbye to Bratislava, and then Europe.. and flew from Vienna airport to Harare, Zimbabwe, via Addis Ababa (Ethiopia). Reunited with Elizabeth in Harare. Learnt all about the complicated currency situation, and got set up with EcoCash. Spent the weekend and markets and cafes and low key parties and generally chilling. Attended a very musical and colourful church service. A member of the congregation pegged me as a lost soul and took me aside afterwards to reassure me God is looking out for me. Saw Avengers Endgame again. Caught Elizabeth's cold, I think.
name: Week in review: 29 April - 5 May
published: 2019-05-05T22:17:00+02:00
tag: life
tag: zimbabwe
tag: africa
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: flattentool
tag: ods

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Chilled with Elizabeth and friends. Went to Lake Chivero Nature Reserve and got chased by a rhino. Toured Harare markets and cafes, saw balancing rocks, and the Botanical Gardens. Watched the sun set from a hill in the south of Harare. Enjoyed a 5 day wifi outage and 3 day power outage. It's cool I didn't want to do any work anyway. Visited Sprout Coding in Dzivaresekwa and then joined them for a braai in Kuwadzana; chatted about web dev, encryption, hacking, privacy and surveillance. An inspiring bunch! Watched the sun set from Domboshava. Chill Sunday BBQ.
name: Week in review: 6 - 12 May
published: 2019-05-12T23:59:59+02:00
tag: prewired
tag: tourism
tag: zimbabwe
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: africa

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Got my hair dyed green as a souvenir from Zim. Had final food adventures, and departed Zim for Vienna via Addis Ababa. Spent the day in Bratislava, picked up some stuff I left at H&B's place in Dubravka and visited Aila and Beny. Ate at lots of my favourte places once more. Took a night bus to Zagreb via Vienna (VIB interior is entirely closed now apparently, and my bus was late, not entirely fun on a cold midnight), and a day bus to Sibenik. Some very hot days and a little rain in Sibenik; hiking, swimming, mooning around. Nice to be back in the Balkans.
name: Week in review: 13 - 19 May
published: 2019-05-19T23:59:59+02:00
tag: africa
tag: zimbabwe
tag: travel
tag: week+in+review
tag: harare
tag: croatia
tag: bratislava

week-in-review-4
type: Article
content: Bussed down the Croatian coast from Sibenik to Dubrovnik. Spent a night and a day in Dubrovnik, dodging tourists, eating, sitting by the sea, climbed a hill. Bussed from Dubronik to Herceg Novi, then a little bit further to the next month's home in Montenegro. Settled in in the Bay of Kotor. Spent half a day exploring Herceg Novi old town and surrounds. Went on a boat ride around the Bay; saw Mamula island, the blue cave, old torpedo tunnels; only rained a bit.
name: Week in review: 20 - 26 May
published: 2019-05-26T23:59:59+02:00
tag: tourism
tag: montenegro
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: croatia
tag: bay+of+kotor
tag: bijela

adventures-in-montenegro
type: Article
content: I spent a month total with the Bay of Kotor as my base, broken up by a week-long jaunt to Sarajevo because I got too close to resist. I picked a perfect spot, the small town of Bijela. It has enough tourists from its handful of hotels to not feel like an alien, but not enough to crowd you out, and isn't a primary destination by any means. There are plenty of nice spots to swim, and it's well connected to the rest of the country. Typical of the whole bay, it's surrounded by moody mountains, sometimes shrouded in clouds, other times reflecting the sunset back at you like a mirror. One of the things I particularly enjoyed about Montenegro is the somewhat hectic nature of the buses. It's a tiny country, and you can get anywhere in less than 3 hours, but it usually involves standing at the side of the road to flag down long distance coaches run by a plethora of private companies and hoping they stop. busticket4.me has an approximation of most timetables, but the buses don't necessarily have scheduled stops everywhere so some maths is involved to work out when it's going to pass where you want to catch it from. I found it helpful to memorize the bus companies that were going to where I wanted at a particular time, because there are many private or chartered tour buses too which will not stop for randoms, and you can't necessarily tell these from the long distance coaches from a distance. They also don't always have all of the destinations listed in the front window, so don't necessarily refrain from waving one down just because you can't see your town written. Especially in the Bay of Kotor, or anywhere along the coast, there's only one main road, so if your destination is on it, you can persuade a bus driver to stop there. The only exception being that some buses going down the coast skip the bulk of the Bay and take the ferry across to Lepetane, so don't try to get one of those to Risan or Perast. The way they usually work is you board and take a seat (checking with the…
name: Adventures in Montenegro
published: 2019-06-28T21:00:00+02:00
tag: montenegro
tag: travel
tag: balkans
tag: hiking
tag: tourism
tag: lake

vegan-in-montenegro
type: Article
content: Food in Montenegro is a combination of Mediterranean and Balkan I think. Bakeries abound, often with many accidentally vegan pastries and ingrediants on the labels if you can read the language. But there are no real buregdzinica, so I was disappointed to find krompirusa did not live up to anything close to Bosnian standards. Pizza is widely available, and salads are generally good, although more on the tomato-cucumber side and less cabbage-oriented. My favourite, a common side dish in Croatia as well, is Dalmatian potatoes, which is just boiled potatoes and chard, and magically delicious. As far as I could tell there is only one fully vegan place in the whole of Montenegro. This is Paradise Foods in Budva. As well as making delicious, abundant and unbelievably cheap hot and cold meals, snacks and desserts, they also make seitan and tofu and other things in-house and supply many health food (zdrava hrana) stores around the country. I was fortunate enough to be staying behind one such store, Ibis in Bijela, so I got to eat Paradise Foods seitan and tofu, not to mention delicious small cakes, every week from there. I went to Budva twice, and Paradise is conveniently located between the bus station and the beach, so I could stop for an extended lunch on my way in, and then get there before they closed at 9pm to pick up more supplies to take home on the way back. One morning I worked from there for a few hours, eating continuously; they have wifi and a couple of power outlets, though not a huge amount of indoor seating. In Bijela itself is a place called Bura, a mostly-fish restaurant that has a good selection of salads and potato sides, plus a tofu salad which is large balls of battered deep fried tofu on the side of a large seasonal salad. The tofu inside wasn't seasoned at all, so it was kind of mediocre, but it was nice that they tried. And the location by the sea, plus power and wifi, makes it a good place to hang around nonetheless. I found a couple of places with …
name: Vegan in Montenegro
published: 2019-06-28T21:01:00+02:00
tag: food
tag: balkans
tag: montenegro
tag: travel
tag: vegan

week-in-review
type: Article
content: Finalised BODS internationalisation / translation workflow stuff. Explored around Lepetane, across the bay by free ferry. Hiked to Kotor from Lepetane, partly in the rain, takes 6 hours or so.
name: Week in review: 27 May - 2 June
published: 2019-06-02T23:59:59+02:00
tag: week+in+review
tag: hiking
tag: travel

week-in-review-2
type: Article
content: Explored a bit more of Herceg Novi, walked around the bay through Igalo. Did some work on flattentool. Spent an afternoon in Tivat. So fancy, such yachts. Spent an afternoon in Perast. Very quaint, many tourist.
name: Week in review: 3 - 9th June
published: 2019-06-09T23:59:59+02:00
tag: ods
tag: montenegro
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel

week-in-review-3
type: Article
content: Spent an afternoon in Budva. Touristy and tacky but not objectionable. The only vegan cafe in Montenegro. Got caught in Sarajevo's gravitational pull, and went for the rest of the week. (worked on flattentool) All the usual Sarajevo stuff. Ate cabbage, went to Karuzo, went to Prana, met some cats. Went hiking near Bjelasnica. Made excellent gains at the flea market.
name: Week in review: 10 - 16 June
published: 2019-06-16T23:59:59+02:00
tag: sarajevo
tag: montenegro
tag: week+in+review
tag: travel
tag: yoga

week-in-review-4
type: Article
type: Activity
content: Still in Sarajevo, hung out with occrp peoples. Ate krompirusa, etc. Bussed back to Bijela. A day of adventures to Niksic, Ostrog Monastary, Podgorica, Skadar Lake. Spontaneous stopover in a random village on the lake shore. Road trip back up the coast, via Ulcinj (meh) and Bar (ooh). Watched lots of Twin Peaks.
name: Week in review: 17 - 23 June
published: 2019-06-23T23:59:59+02:00
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tag: montenegro
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