Published: November 11th 2006
November 10th 2006
November 10th 2006
It is very damp in Lithuania and my hands are cold. Typing is difficult. Well, when you last pretended to read my blog, I had just left Tomsk/Novosibirsk and was on my way to Nizhny Novgorod (previously Gorky, after the writer). I spent two uneventful nights on the train, with only a screaming child to interrupt my reading (my Russian isn't so good, but I figure most of what he said was 'No! It... Read Full Entry
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“To be a tourist is to escape accountability. Errors and failings don't cling to you the way they do back home. You're able to drift across continents and languages, suspending the operation of sound thought. Tourism is the march of stupidity. You're expected to be stupid. The entire mechanism of the host country is geared to travelers acting stupidly. You walk around dazed, squinting into fold-out maps. You don't know how to talk to people, how to get anywhere, what the money means, what time it is, what to eat or how to eat it. Being stupid is the pattern, the level and the norm. You can ex... full info
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My seat on the train...
Hermitage, St. P
Signs, signs everywhere the signs...
NO: pointing, weighing, walking a rocking horse, suicide, saxophones, wearing underwear, ski jumping, garbage cans, fires, drinking and holding a broom, cycling, fighting trees. AND...you need your passort to get in. Russia...gotta love it.
Some church, whatever...St. P
It looks nice.
Comments
Date: 14th November 2006
Colder Than Sapa!
Hi Mike - great blog as always. Looks like you're having a good time - reckon the statue park is a great place to visit - can you fit one of the statues in your bag? ;-)
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Colder Than Sapa!
Hi Mike - great blog as always. Looks like you're having a good time - reckon the statue park is a great place to visit - can you fit one of the statues in your bag? ;-)
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don't worry...
... getting deported from Bellarussia isn't as cool as it might seem, so you didn't miss much.
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