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Archive for August, 2008

Spanish Horses, South American Butterflies, and Viennese Bumper Cars

Bee and I always know where we’re going, even if it has yet to be decided or we don’t end up leaving the hotel until noon. I don’t really understand how we know this, it’s just that there are things that we know and things that we don’t know and have yet to form an [...]

Mozart Balls

I don’t know if you know this, but Mozart was a dirty little sleaze. I didn’t actually learn this in my travels around Salzburg this week, rather, I thought it might be intriguing to go to Salzburg just because I knew this about Mozart. I took an entire class about ole’ Wolfie’s brief but colorful [...]

Two Weddings and a Credit Card Bill

If you really must know what started me on the road to behind, I’ll gladly blame it on the peculiar fact that everyone seems to always want to get married in August. I really wouldn’t mind it if y’all decided to vary it a bit, or at least get married a little closer together geographically, [...]

Swiss National Day

August 1 is a completely Swiss holiday celebrating the independence of the country from Austria. This goes way back to 1291, so it’s a bit older than U.S. Independence Day. It doesn’t seem to be as organized as in the U.S., however, as there were no planned fireworks over Zurich - just a lot of [...]