bie'96: travel diary index


 

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Please note: The indeces are thorough but not exhaustive, and are intended mainly for fast searching. For maximum reading pleasure, and in order to avoid missing any good bits by accident, it is recommended that the diary be simply read from start to finish in chronological order. Just click on "Start..." above!


index by location

  • Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
    • 2.9. Arrival
    • 3.9. Wandering around
    • 4.9. More wandering around
  • Berlin (Germany)
    • 21.8. Description
    • 22.8. More description
    • 23.8. Beach, women, nightlife
    • 24.8. More nightlife, conclusion
  • Bruxelles (Belgium)
    • 2.9. Veni, vidi, parti
  • Christiania (Denmark)
    • 19.8. Description
    • 19.8. A note on cycling
    • 30.8. Comparison to Metelkova
    • 1.9. Comparison to Venezia
  • Duisburg (Germany)
    • 4.9. Both of them, in fact
  • København (Denmark)
    • 19.8. Christiania Free State
    • 19.8. Minefields and cyclists
    • 20.8. Botanical garden
    • 20.8. Public transport, conclusion
    • 5.9. Instant revisit (just add yogurt)
  • Ljubljana (Slovenia)
    • 28.8. Initial impressions (Slovenia)
    • 28.8. Initial impressions (Ljubljana)
    • 29.8. Around town, in the castle
    • 30.8. Anecdotes, Metelkova, conclusion
  • Malmö (Sweden)
  • Matavun (Slovenia)
  • Trieste (Italy)
    • 31.8. Not a flattering comparison
  • Traveling
    • 17.8. Helsinki to Stockholm, by ship
    • 20.8. København to Malmö, by ship
    • 24.8. Berlin to Praha, by train
    • 28.8. Wien to Ljubljana, by train
    • 31.8. Divac^a to Venezia, by train
    • 1.9. Venezia to Milano, by train
    • 2.9. Bruxelles to Amsterdam, by train
    • 5.9. København to Hässleholm, by train
    • 5.9. Hässleholm to Stockholm, by train
    • 6.9. Stockholm to Helsinki, by ship
  • Praha (Czech Republic)
    • 24.8. Arrival, prices, efficiency
    • 25.8. Moping around doped on ephedrine
    • 26.8. Instant Praha (cooking time 12h)
    • 28.8. Flashback
    • 30.8. Conclusion
  • Stockholm (Sweden)
    • 18.8. Arrival, descriptions, departure
    • 6.9. Rearrival, redeparture
  • Venezia (Italy)
    • 1.9. Arrival, descriptions
    • 1.9. Departure
  • Wien (Austria)
    • 27.8. Arrival
    • 28.8. Marginally related commentary
    • 28.8. An interesting hostel
    • 30.8. Descriptions, conclusion

index by subject

  • Culture
    • 26.8. Tourist invasion
    • 30.8. Slovenian courtesy
    • 1.9. Partying, Italian style
    • 2.9. Mannekin Pis
    • 3.9. Surinam invasion
    • 3.9. The Tourist's Dilemma
    • 4.9. Finnish cultural imperialism
  • Drugs
    • 17.8. Alcohol and limits of use
    • 19.8. Christiania's hash street
    • 26.8. Beer
    • 2.9. Psychoactive Amsterdam
    • 4.9. Just say...NOT!
    • 5.9. Suspicious hippie alert
  • Food
    • 17.8. A luxurious meal
    • 18.8. A less luxurious meal
    • 20.8. Buying and storing foodstuffs
    • 21.8. Teleport to Turkey
    • 25.8. Trendy Anglo-Czech comestibles
    • 25.8. Meditations on tap water
    • 26.8. Not tap water, but should be
    • 26.8. Trendy Anglo-Czech comestibles part II
    • 2.9. Train station restaurants
    • 3.9. More gourmet eating with Jani
    • 3.9. Yet more gourmet eating with Jani
    • 5.9. Yogurt to the rescue!
    • 6.9. All you can eat, and I mean it
  • Language
    • 18.8. Swedish vocabulary
    • 23.8. One-way conversations in German
    • 24.8. The wonders of Hungarian
    • 24.8. Japanese in the Czech Republic
    • 30.8. A conversation in Slovene
  • Luck
    • 17.8. Games of chance
    • 20.8. Traveling and luck
    • 24.8. The cosmic randomness generator strikes again
    • 28.8. Cat Ass Trophies
    • 6.9. TANSTAAFL
  • Money
    • 17.8. Cruises aren't cheap
    • 19.8. The budget and how it was fucked
    • 19.8. Subsistence level existence
    • 24.8. East Europe on a Western budget
    • 25.8. The sins of the wallet
    • 6.9. The Viking conspiracy
  • Music
    • 17.8. Swedish easy listening music
    • 21.8. Finding E-Werk
    • 23.8. Berlin's nightlife
    • 24.8. A visit to Tresor
    • 26.8. A visit to Radost FX
    • 28.8. Monk-generated minimalist techno
  • Nature
    • 20.8. The immensity of a tree
    • 22.8. Yours truly discovers willows
    • 23.8. Berlin's famous beaches
    • 26.8. A small but Vltava mystery
    • 26.8. A (very) brief meditation on climates
    • 28.8. The sound of one jaw dropping
    • 29.8. The heart of Ljubljana
    • 31.8. The caves of S^kocjan
  • People
    • 23.8. Friendly senile granny, episode 1
    • 23.8. An odd couple
    • 24.8. Nakamori-san
    • 27.8. Monsieur l'Artiste
    • 30.8. Two Slovenian natives
    • 1.9. Herd mentality
    • 2.9. Ari from Australia, mate
    • 3.9. Everyday surreality
    • 5.9. Friendly senile granny, episode 2
  • Pleasures of life
    • 18.8. The best 4 SEK I ever spent
    • 24.8. Industrial strength in residential life
    • 26.8. The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything
    • 3.9. Sitting on the green grass
    • 4.9. Visiting the Torture Museum (what, me sadistic?)
    • 4.9. Ain't getting none
  • Sex
    • 23.8. German genderblenders
    • 1.9. Italian men in green tights
    • 2.9. Some people's obsession
    • 3.9. Porno supermarket?
    • 4.9. Ho-in-a-box
  • Transport
    • 19.8. Bicycle heaven, pedestrian hell
    • 20.8. Touristic convinience
    • 22.8. The case of the mysterious UV light
    • 24.8. Kudos to DB for good air-conditioning
    • 25.8. The ultimate subway station
    • 26.8. Son of ultimate subway station
    • 31.8. Hitchhiker's guide to Slovenia
    • 1.9. Gliding on the waters of Venezia
    • 1.9. The wonders of Italian engineering
    • 4.9. Click, click, click...
    • 5.9. Things I've learned the hard way
    • 6.9. Ferries vs. trains
  • Waiting
    • 18.8. 4 hours and nothing to do
    • 18.8. Same day and still 2 left
    • 23.8. Meditations on Interrailing & existence
    • 23.8. An industrial wasteland at 22:30
    • 26.8. KLF goes Praha
    • 31.8. Italian passport control
    • 1.9. How to while away a train ride
    • 5.9. How not to while away a train ride
  • Warfare
    • 19.8. Waltzing through minefields
    • 23.8. An assassin in our midst
    • 28.8. The killing fields
     

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