After 150 years of occupation by the Ottomans, after a series of events long after that, and after a bloody decisive battle, two cities divided by the Danube River, Pest on the East bank and Buda on the West, united in 1873. This new supercity was called Budapest. What follows here is a mélange. […]
If I really wanted to do something with this post, I’d start at the end and work my way backwards, Christopher Nolan style. But that’s not going to happen. But I will do a few time jumps… not because of artistic imperative but because I’m a pretty lousy and loose writer when it comes to […]
Simply put – Szimpla Kert is a tourist trap. It may be “authentic” in that it was apparently the first bar sprung from a ruined building. The idea was to make a cheap place to drink, thus transforming an abandoned space with minimal renovation other than to make it relatively safe and to decorate the […]
I’m having a bad day. Emotionally. Physically. Bio-rhythmically. Astrologically. Paranormally. Psychically. Entirely. Nothing seems to be going right. I was trying to troubleshoot a tech problem for my Mom back in Florida and I only seem to have made a “Dagwood attempting to fix the sink in Blondie” style mess of things. My phone doesn’t […]
“Yesterday” – Lennon/McCartney … though written by Paul Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away. Now it looks as though they’re here to stay. Oh, I believe in yesterday. Suddenly I’m not half the man I used to be. There’s a shadow hanging over me. Oh, yesterday came suddenly. Why she had to go, […]
It’s approximate 345 km from Zagreb to Budapest. Despite some horror stories about FlixBus online, I had a perfectly pleasant experience with their staff and service. The passengers on the other hand all reeked of last minute cigarettes huffed before boarding at each stop along the way I had gotten to the bus depot early, […]
7:03 AM – 8:26 AM Sigh. You’d think I would have checked the hours on Medvedgrad before setting my alarm last night. But, no, I was *sooooo* smart and *soooo* well organized thinking Medvedgrad was open on Tuesdays that I didn’t bother to check WHEN it opened on Tuesday. So this morning as I once […]
I had the wind taken out of me this morning. I awoke feeling exceedingly stiff, a sure sign that despite my efforts to keep moving after the race yesterday I clearly should have logged a few more miles to aid in recovery. But I had resolved through an early alarm clock setting to use today […]
I had assumed the “26” in the Zagreb Marathon logo referred to 26 miles… which really when I think about it is a very foolish assumption. First, it should be “26.2” for the miles representing a marathon distance. Second, Croatia is on the metric system so it would have to be “42.195” if they were […]
7:34 AM – T-minus 2 hours, 26 minutes until the Zagreb Marathon It’s cold this morning. Mid 40s. Same as yesterday. But by the race start time of 10 AM, it should be warming up and by noon if the sun is out it’ll be a very pleasant 60ish. Should be great running weather… if […]