Tag: travel
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Back to Canada and on to… Australia?
Well, I’ll admit I’ve been a bit of a hermit while in Canada. After travelling so much and so far, coming back to Winnipeg was both exciting and depressing all at once. Let’s face it, the city’s kinda isolated from the rest of the world. Though I love Winnipeg and it is my hometown, I…
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Kharkiv, Ukraine: An Introduction
Kharkiv, an unpronounceable city just like Poland’s Rzeszów. Depending on your Cyrillic abilities, you’ll have trouble pronouncing this city’s name. KARkov, KHHHHHARkov, or, if you’re listening to a Ukrainian speaker (not Russian), KARkeev or KKHHAAARkeeev. The “kh” is a gutteral throat sound and the best way to get the pronunciation right is to take a…
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Winnipeg: A Little Guide for Foreigners
As I make my way through the hostels and bars all over Poland, people ask me where I’m from and they don’t recognize the name. In regard to Canada, Toronto, Vancouver and Montreal get all the attention, Winnipeg gets skipped. I have no doubt it’s because we’re so far away from everybody else. But I’m…
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A Farewell to Poland
Poland. I came to this country with one particular image in mind: a sinister Rob Zombie paying homage to A Clockwork Orange and it’s Milk Bar sequence in his music video, Never Gonna Stop (The Red Red Kroovy). Moreover, I’d recently read a book by George Friedman (the head honcho of the STRATFOR intelligence company),…
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Poland: Third Impressions
I’ve made my way through a good portion of Northern Poland, doing some sight-seeing, a home-stay, and meeting plenty of folks. After all this wandering I’ve come up with my third set of impressions of Poland. You can read my first impressions here, the second here. -Who is the Polish guy who overdubs English…