Budapest
(Pictures by Sr. Kilgore, text by both of us.) (EB: On Friday the 13th we took a bus from Belgrade to Budapest, which was where we crossed back into the
Month: December 2019
Belgrade
(Pictures by Sr. Kilgore, text by Kilgore and Belew.) Off to Belgrade, Serbia. Transitions are tricky. Arriving in Belgrade we faced such high class problems as a cabbie who charged
best travel tools on the road
As a Luddite tech geek, I have resigned myself to a smartphone, especially when travelling: android. I am totally offline as far as cell service here, but I do have
illiteracy, the lack of foreign language(s), other ways
So much we don’t have a clue about. Don’t know how to even pronounce words, let alone what they might mean. Now we’ve added a new alphabet (Cyrillic), which is
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Belgrade (switching to realtime reportage)
On the train to Belgrad I made a cheat sheet for Cyrillic. Totally humbling, since I can barely copy the characters of the alphabet with enough detail (little tails and
Ljubljana, part 2
This post by Sr. Kilgore Ljubljana is a design center with an institute and museum we visited. The bus stop outside was a prototype of the bus shelter design first
Ljubljana, Slovenia a jewel of a city
We had been here before, some years ago. Fabulously beautiful, mellow city. A river city which means bridges and more bridges, and in Ljubljana, one architect (Jože Plečnik) designed the