Well, I did promise that I'd put up the second half of the week of wanderings at a less lazy time, and any time after two cups of coffee and possibly a gallon of tea is certainly that. This is going to be long, so bear with me here. Never mind anything else I might be doing at the time, no! To hell with that. Anyways, the second wing of the trip was going to be spent in Wien, and after another four hour trip in a swaying metal box (I've been told to call them trains), we arrived. In what was simultaneously a happy surprise and a surreal moment, my lodging in Vienna wasn't in a hostel, oh no, no living with six other people in the same room for me! No sir! This ... read more

Well now let me see, it's been a somewhat travel free weekend, but I'll give some thought into updating before I return to paper writing hell. I think the topic for this weekend has to be, well, a very strange experience. I'd spent some of my time on my weekend hanging out with Nick and Mitchel, a pair of Australians I'd met in Krakow, which did mean a chance to see another part of the city at least, but it was mostly a non starter due to a communications fail. However, Sunday turned out into a downright surreal experience. My host parents were visiting an old friend of the family, an artist named Heinrich putting on an exhibition so I decided to tag along. It was a nice change of pace, and after spending some ... read more

Ugh. Well so much for updating every week, but hey, eight days is close enough right? Bah. Well anyhoo, I've a fair amount to get too, so let's get right into it! Have a nice weekend? I hope so. What'd I do? Not much, oh you know. Nothing special just... OKTOBERFEST. Needless to say the world's largest keg party is pretty much the topic for the week. A little history: Oktoberfest was originally supposed to be a once off festival celebrating the mighty Bayern König Something-Or-Other's marriage to Königin What's-Her-Name, but the locals decided (in a very Bayern way) that the party had been such a grand time they should keep it up. Anyways, visiting Germany this was definitely something a good chunk of us FU-Besters were rather excited about, and I ended up booking ... read more