Re: Accents Rishi and Juan, the accents were definitely a treat, especially with me being so musically inclined (and having had a fair amount of audio training). There is so much variability, and a couple of towns like Fife have an extremely distinct sound. There's almost like no standard, and I with more time, I would have loved to start asking people where they were from to map the accent variation to the town.
Hallo Alex! What language do they speak in Haggis Land? I hear it's all packaged up in the accents? A student of mine returning to Zurich after a few days there wanted to know what language they speak; and he was serious!! I'm still laughing. English, right? Thanks for the virtual tour.
Best regards, Juan
Edinburgh Nice, dude! I loved Edinburgh and Scotland in general when I visited my uncle in Glasgow in 2003. Very pretty and so peaceful. Loved the people's accents too.
Glad to see you're still the explorer.
amazing Alex, I sat entranced reading your observations. They were so graphic I almost felt myself there with you!
Thank you...looking forward to more blogs.
Stay well....
Love, Sylvia
Taking me back Hi Alex, Thanks for taking me back to my Saigon of the late 60s! Your mom has also been keeping me posted, so you can't make a move without us!! Don't even try :)...Looking forward to more "foodie" comments as well since I hear most "Argentines" are just that, foodies! Bye from Zurich. Best to you and the group,
Juan Ricci
lovely blog that is a really nice blog about your travels! nice work, man. I'll have to remember to bring a camcorder/video recorder with me on my next trip abroad.
AWSOME DUDE Hey, seems like a really cool trip. A little hard to follow all the details while looking at the pictures though. But I am glad you had such a goood time. I also find it funny how you guys woke up late like EVERY night. hehe. Thanks for sharing.
glad to see Glad to see that graduate school hasn't eradicated your love for taking pictures of yourself leaning back into a group of girls. whew, some things never change.
bulgaria your blog was very complementary and i am glad you enjoyed bulgaria. Unlike some US tourist who seem to have nothing but critisision for the country.
alex it's soo great to read through these! i wish we could have been in china at the same time, we would have had a lot of fun! i'm so jealous that you got to see the terra cotta soldiers, i wish my group would have been able to, as well. i suppose i'll just swing by there the next time i'm in china. :) here's a link to see some of the pics that my friend, melissa, took while we were in nanchang and beijing... http://picasaweb.google.com/melissa.teahen safe travels!!
American Malonzo Even though I couldn't be travelling in Bulgaria at the moment, I'm glad my name and Canadian twin are there! For the record, I'm taller than he is and believe I would win an exchange of fisticuffs easily.
nice trip I´ve lived in Macau until 97, it´s completly different from those days.
I miss pretty much the lunches in hospital S.Januário cafeteria, the smell of food and insense in the streets, the permenant noise in the streets, the races in november i´ll be back one of these days. Congratykations for your excelent report
Thanks for the great blog Alex, it has been great to read about your travels. I keep meaning to comment and tell you that your stories are great. I am so jealous.
Living vicariously through you,
Steph
Hmmm... Oh yeah, they were amazing. They're not listed as one of the world's wonders (yet) because they were only discovered accidentally in the 70's. I think that Pit 3 may have been the one that was ransacked by the peasant revolt right after the first emperors death. In any case, when the soldiers get unearthed, they're not usually in great shape because the original roof was made of wood, which has since rotted in the past 2200 years, and they're basically buried in the dirt which has flooded in with the absence of a roof. The dirt actually works to preserve them, but the cave-ins have broken the soldiers.
This is amazing... I had never even heard of the Terra Cotta soldiers before. I'm going to go read some more about it on Wikipedia right now. How come some of them in pit 3 are without heads?
Great blog great write-up and photos Alex - not so sure about the bleary eyed one of me with a beer in my hand! Look forward to reading the next one - enjoy Bulgaria!!
ADog
Alex R
Re: Accents
Rishi and Juan, the accents were definitely a treat, especially with me being so musically inclined (and having had a fair amount of audio training). There is so much variability, and a couple of towns like Fife have an extremely distinct sound. There's almost like no standard, and I with more time, I would have loved to start asking people where they were from to map the accent variation to the town.