Hi everybody. Can I get another WTF? Here I am in Vienna, and the weather service is predicting hurricane force winds. So I’m thinking, “whatever”. Then I go to the online news and, sure enough, there’s a freaking hurricane hitting Germany as we speak.

So our buddy Kyrill is roaring down to Mitteleuropa. Personally, I’m not [...]

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Our set of photos from our short trip to Bratislava are up on Flickr.
I’d definitely like to go back. The people seemed nice and the city was pretty cool, despite having been pretty thoroughly wrecked by communists and bad modernist architects and [...]

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Our friend Jennifer is in town for a few weeks. Jennifer is an educator and she is able to spend a few weeks in Europe and is using our pad here in Vienna as a home base for her Euroexplorations.
Jennifer recently headed off to Prague for a few days, and Maple was a bit confused. [...]

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A lazy stroll through Frankfurt, Germany

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I don’t really care too much this—some film auditions for Bin Laden look-alikes held on September 11th by some Euro-wank B-movie director.
It’s a publicity stunt—big deal. Insensitve? Sure, but I’m not offended. But this is what offends me:
“It’s good to shock people sometimes with humor. Americans are incapable of laughing at themselves,” he [...]

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