Category Archives: Travel

You’re in the wrong lane, pal!

Last weekend, I’ve been to London. And yes, I took the above picture there, on Edgware Street, Paddington, Westminster, which is the only place so far where I have seen a Chinese doctor advertise in Arabic. Actually, the whole street looks more like Pakistan than England, especially in the evenings when the air is heavy…

Short vacation and a bit of England

When I planned my summer, it looked something like this: June – rest and relax July – prepare to move August – in England, preparing for new job or looking for one. I would like to put the emphasis on the first point, June. Rest and Relax. Now, what my summer ended up is something…

Rainy Sunday, sunny Monday

Here in Plovdiv. It is a really nice city, and the first day – Saturday – I walked all over the place, shooting photos, trying my new Nikon D40. Plovdiv is as far as I remember the 3rd biggest city of Bulgaria, and the inner city is really nice. Not huge, but it has a…

Lost in space – photos from Whoknowswhere

I am sorting out my photos on flickr, placing them in sets and collection and I just started to place them on the map when I hit a really, really hard problem. See, I got hundreds of photos from my last vacation, all nice and uploaded to flickr, and they even have tags and all,…

Sorry, but your hand baggage is not a hand baggage anymore

I am a bit annoyed. Returning from Sofia to Budapest, through Vienna, and on check-in they tell me that my hand luggage is not a hand luggage I have to hand it over like it was some huge case. No, it does not annoy me that I have to let them handle my packs, and…

Travel

Leaving for Bulgaria tomorrow, to – hopefully – start the wrap up of a project. It is always a heartwarming thing to read about airplane accidents before going to the airport. I know, nothing to worry about, still. On the bright side there is some hope that we can read blogs on the airplanes in…