.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Source, originally uploaded by scottpartee. Thoroughly enjoyed my first Pho in Vietnam.

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Coin confusion Originally uploaded by scottpartee. I had forgotten about how funny it was the last time I was in Canada. I had a pocket full of various countries’ currencies: US from mistaken change in Canada; Canadian; Euros and; bizarrely enough, Slovenian coins that were accidentally stashed in my bag of Canadian currency left over [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Eating Fresh Sea Urchins, originally uploaded by scottpartee. We caught them, Theo cut them open, and dressed them with olive oil and lemon. They opened up a bottle of ouzo, which [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Maple’s Third Birthday Party, originally uploaded by scottpartee. We celebrated Maple’s third birthday in Greece. We packed some party supplies so that we could have a little fest for her to [...]

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Nearly three weeks of holiday went a long way toward restoring my vigor. Just before the break, work was nearly crushing me. Now, things seem under control. There’s imminent insanity, but it’s all manageable. We went to Greece for our vacation and really loved it. We only hit two locales: Athens and the island of [...]

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Sweety @ Temple of Olympian Zeus Originally uploaded by scottpartee. Temple of Olympian Zeus is the largest temple in Greece and was something like 700 years in the making. Peisistratos started it in the 6th century B.C., but the money ran out. Roman Emperor Hadrian completed it in 131 A.D. He used it to house [...]

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Image065 Originally uploaded by scottpartee. This is a photo of the world’s best toast. I made it myself. How do you make it? Easy: 1. Go to Lesvos, in Greece, very near Turkey. 2. Stay in Molyvos (Mithymna) and rent an awesome house just down the cobble-stone path from the traditional bakery with wood-fired oven. [...]

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Here is my list (a la Kottke): Portland, OR Boise, ID Grand Junction, CO Denver, CO Baton Rouge, LA Jennings, LA Natchez, MS* New York, NY Vienna, Austria* Llubljana, Slovenia Trieste, Italy Udine, Italy Venice, Italy Bratislava, Slovakia Sliema, Malta Toronto, Canada 7 Countries, 2 Continents, 6 US States, 1 Canadian Province. Also of note, [...]

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Fordiculous! on the Maltese playground.

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I love me some Toronto so far. It’s a great town with lots of diversity. I don’t just mean diversity in people, it’s also diverse in its urban fabric (houses, buildings, etc), amenities (just about anything you could ever need is generally really close to your abode), food (I’ve seen nearly every level and type [...]

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Canal Originally uploaded by scottpartee. The first half (yup, I said half) of our Venice pics are now on Flickr.

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Bratislava Originally uploaded by scottpartee. 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 urban designers. Bratislava has a long 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 [...]

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Trieste Flying The Big Colors Originally uploaded by scottpartee. My set of photos from Trieste is finally on Flickr for those who are interested. I took a lot of pictures—actually filled my memory card. For a four night trip, that is a bit excessive. What will I do if I take a two week vacation?

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Something I hope to oneday soon put to the test is the following claim: Seafood from the “Croatian” side of the Adriatic is superior to seafood harvested in the waters closer to the “Italian” side. Venetian chefs are rumored to favor seafood pulled from the waters off of Croatia due to the fact that the [...]

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