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Sunday 1 November 2009
traianbasescu.ro hacked
The website of Traian Basescu, current president of Romania was hacked (marketing strategy?! :D):
Monday 21 September 2009
Sardegna travel
Itinerary: Luxembourg - Hahn - oush! with RyanAir - Alghero, Sardegna.
Learned lessons: don't rent cars from local companies, go open-hearted to a new place. Have no expectations.
Places seen: Alghero, Sassari, Bosa, north-west coast
Things liked: food (octopus, clams, fish, pizza and pasta in all flavors of the olive oil and chorizo, mozarella, ricotta), drinks (great house wines), preserved history (old town squares, narrow cobbled streets, old churches, the nuraghe), views (cliffs diving into the open sea, Capo Caccia with its 654 steps, sunset from the historical town in Alghero, the colorful old city of Bosa, the beaches). And last, but not the least, the ICECREAM!! Delicious! And the warm people.
Not-so nice things: the traffic (yes, still Italian driving and parking), some places looked really creepy and dirty, especially on the outskirts of Alghero, the siesta (almost everything is closed between 13 and 17).
Great trip!
Learned lessons: don't rent cars from local companies, go open-hearted to a new place. Have no expectations.
Places seen: Alghero, Sassari, Bosa, north-west coast
Things liked: food (octopus, clams, fish, pizza and pasta in all flavors of the olive oil and chorizo, mozarella, ricotta), drinks (great house wines), preserved history (old town squares, narrow cobbled streets, old churches, the nuraghe), views (cliffs diving into the open sea, Capo Caccia with its 654 steps, sunset from the historical town in Alghero, the colorful old city of Bosa, the beaches). And last, but not the least, the ICECREAM!! Delicious! And the warm people.
Not-so nice things: the traffic (yes, still Italian driving and parking), some places looked really creepy and dirty, especially on the outskirts of Alghero, the siesta (almost everything is closed between 13 and 17).
Great trip!
Thursday 23 April 2009
Prague, Czech Me Out!
Two days after the Prague trip is over and I am still archiving all the memories and people. Prague is a special city. The blend between the east and the west seems almost right. You meet the usual rude people from the Eastern Europe who think their job sucks and it is a privilege that they do talk to you.
To forget about this rather familiar experience you drown yourself in the amazingly good local beer. My experience in Prague taught me 2 local words: Pivo cerny Kozel. It is actually 2 words, since Kozel is the name of the wonderful dark beer from around the place. The beer would come after a hefty lunch or dinner, invariably containing a garlic based food.
And who could forget the Pub Crawl, the beer on the terrace facing Vltava, the obsession of all the buildings with religion and knights, the feeling of Catholic empowerement given by all the somptous cathedrals, the sausage with mustard at 3 AM, the night tram full of drunken or high people, the standing train trip to Kutna Hora, walking through blossomed cherry trees in the Royal Palace Gardens, feeling the pain of the past when visiting the Museum of Communism, sensing the kitch and the Amsterdam look-a-like desire with the Sex Museum or sex related items. All in all, 5 days and nights of living life.
And in the beginning there was beer. And God said: Enjoy your Czech beer! The end.
P.S.: Oh, yeah, almost forgot. If you feel offended by lousy service at a bar, never go where Jean Claude Van Damme has gone before: U Medvidku. And don't trust exchange bureaus. Just use a bank or ATM!
To forget about this rather familiar experience you drown yourself in the amazingly good local beer. My experience in Prague taught me 2 local words: Pivo cerny Kozel. It is actually 2 words, since Kozel is the name of the wonderful dark beer from around the place. The beer would come after a hefty lunch or dinner, invariably containing a garlic based food.
And who could forget the Pub Crawl, the beer on the terrace facing Vltava, the obsession of all the buildings with religion and knights, the feeling of Catholic empowerement given by all the somptous cathedrals, the sausage with mustard at 3 AM, the night tram full of drunken or high people, the standing train trip to Kutna Hora, walking through blossomed cherry trees in the Royal Palace Gardens, feeling the pain of the past when visiting the Museum of Communism, sensing the kitch and the Amsterdam look-a-like desire with the Sex Museum or sex related items. All in all, 5 days and nights of living life.
And in the beginning there was beer. And God said: Enjoy your Czech beer! The end.
P.S.: Oh, yeah, almost forgot. If you feel offended by lousy service at a bar, never go where Jean Claude Van Damme has gone before: U Medvidku. And don't trust exchange bureaus. Just use a bank or ATM!
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Sunday 28 December 2008
Barcelona trip
Just came back from Barcelona for a Christmas trip. Amazing city! I had the sun, the rain and some snow. The sea and the mountains. A complete landscape. When you get bored you can just walk on La Ramblas. It is always something happening there. The city looks like it was built for the pleasure of the eyes. All the buildings have something different and the hand of Gaudi is everywhere. I really liked the Gothic neighborhood with its narrow streets. It almost felt like I could see the carts with donkeys walking around with people screaming and selling stuff. And nothing is better than a walk on the beach, even if it's December. Now I will wait for the Sagrada Familia to be finished in 2026, to visit it. Great city!
Tuesday 9 December 2008
Picasa pics and fails
New hobby: Tagging failed face recognition made by Picasa. :) New pics from Freiburg:
http://picasaweb.google.com/iursu04/Freiburg#
http://picasaweb.google.com/iursu04/Freiburg#
Monday 20 October 2008
Just a thought
Could it be that the only place where you might find what the people around us think about you is in a court of law? Is there anyone truly honest with the others without being pressured? Just a thought inspired by Camus...
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