Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Europe. Show all posts
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Albania's last trains.

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  For the past 40 years, maybe even earlier if childhood stamp collecting is taken into account, I've been fascinated by the country of ...
Friday, September 25, 2020

A comeback for TEE?

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American railroad buffs tend to be fascinated by the physical infrastructure of trains and their accessories. Going back to my Eurailpass ye...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

I'm still English and German. I miss that tiny slice of Finnish.

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My Ancestry.com "origins" update has arrived, and not to belabor the point, but it should surprise no one, including me, that I...
Saturday, May 16, 2020

ON THE AVENUES: Food is my friend, but please, I'm no foodie.

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What is a “foodie,” anyway, other than a concept I’ve never thought applied to me in the slightest? According to Merriam-Webster , a fo...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

BEER WITH A SOCIALIST: The Schönramer brewery, by way of Birra Tirana and other lager breweries in Europe.

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My intent today is to link you to an amazing article by Joe Stange about a brewery about which you've heard little located in the Bav...
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Saturday, March 07, 2020

"This is Europe," a commitment by The Guardian "to reporting on every aspect of Europe."

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As the Manchester newspaper lately is making clear: Britain is leaving Europe. The Guardian is not . The result is a series called ...
Sunday, November 17, 2019

"Casting ash on society: Tambora - the volcano that changed the world."

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The Smithsonian answers my first question . The eruption of Tambora was ten times more powerful than that of Krakatau, which is 900 m...
Tuesday, July 16, 2019

In America, automobile supremacy means we walk less, but we die more. Evidently we want it that way.

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Having been to Europe numerous times, and at the risk of generalizing, the basic difference is that most European countries put the brake...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Riding the rails in Europe: "My return to Interrailing 30 years on."

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1985, Greece. I miss the clickety-clack, to be honest. Trains need to be trains, not airplanes. Back on track: my return to Interrai...
Sunday, May 12, 2019

“I love Europe. I love trains. With Brexit negotiations tortuously unwinding I decided to combine these twin passions.”

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"Beethoven with attitude, masochism in Lviv, the smell of cigarettes in the corridor, adventurous great aunts who travelled on the r...
Friday, December 21, 2018

Munich Tales 2018: What would the holidaze be without "beer and the pissoir"?

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Photo credit. I'm writing these words on the 15th of December, imagining that on the morning of the 21st, I'll have consumed to...
Friday, November 23, 2018

Inhumanely treated Amazon workers in Europe go out on strike because Bezos didn't give them a new city hall.

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Good for them -- Amazon's workers in Europe, that is. 'We Are Not Robots': Amazon Workers Across Europe Walk Out on Black ...
Friday, October 12, 2018

Try to imagine Harvest Homecoming if 95% of visitors DIDN'T drive to it -- or, "Why Public Transportation Works Better Outside the U.S."

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Here's something else I've been saying ever since I began visiting Europe regularly. As Jeff Gillenwater notes: This. Until w...
Sunday, April 01, 2018

The sense of “default Christianity” is vanishing in Europe.

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The topic is a steadily diminishing "sense of being Christian by default" in Europe. We're seeing the beginnings of this in...
Saturday, March 17, 2018

In Europe, a "cultural enrichment plan (that) could change young lives, and maybe even revive the heyday of the Interrail train pass."

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Spring, 1985. There would be a round-trip flight on the then-cheapest Icelandair from Chicago to Luxembourg, returning 88 days after d...
Tuesday, January 16, 2018

They got a bum rat.

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The ostensible reason for this post? Vindication for the rat, but scroll down for the subsidiary purpose. Black Death 'spread by h...
Thursday, September 28, 2017

ON THE AVENUES: Sniffles, gratitude and mental exhaustion. Apparently vacation is over.

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ON THE AVENUES: Sniffles, gratitude and mental exhaustion. Apparently vacation is over. A weekly column by Roger A. Baylor. All things...
Sunday, February 26, 2017

Into the Ohio River Greenway construction zone for photos and ruminations.

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For about a decade, sadly ending with the advent of Bank Street Brewhouse and ensuing time restraints, I helped organize seven beercyclin...
Tuesday, July 05, 2016

50,000 words later, my 1985 European travelogue is finished. I think.

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How many words are in a book? Estimates vary, though at the low end of the range, I'm close. Perspective is a condition impossible t...
Saturday, June 04, 2016

"How Europe’s industrial cities bounced back from the brink of ruin."

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Reusing what's already there, re-skilling people ... recycle, remake and regrow ... but nowhere is it explained how TIF-driven campai...