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Category Archives: Europe 2007

Justine Lafaye

Jordan Posted onFebruary 15, 2008March 7, 2015 14 Comments

I’m not sure if anyone’s reading this anymore, our trip is over, but don’t know quite where else to write. We found out today that Justine, the sweet woman we stayed with when we arrived in Paris in October,...

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Homeward

Jordan Posted onDecember 26, 2007February 26, 2015 Leave a Comment

Could be the last post from abroad. We’re spending the night in Barcelona. Tomorrow we’ll stock up on books and food for the plane, then fly Barcelona -> London -> (drum roll please) Seattle.

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Sprechen Sie Espagnol?

Jordan Posted onDecember 23, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Quote of the Day The police came and burned my cave. But it’s OK, they didn’t burn my guitar or my kevlar. My understanding is that it is rude to mention the The War to the Germans, so I...

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Arrivederci Florence

Jordan Posted onDecember 16, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Somehow, a month has slipped by us here in Florence, and it’s time to leave. We wrapped up our stay by hosting an American-style Sunday brunch for the friends we’ve made while here. Michelle made french toast with real...

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What DOESN’T Venice have?

Jordan Posted onDecember 13, 2007February 25, 2015 1 Comment

We popped up to Venice for the day and found it very, very refreshing. Of course, you see the Grand Canal as you walk out of the train station, so there’s that, but as we walked around the city,...

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Pisa Dance

Jordan Posted onDecember 12, 2007February 25, 2015 1 Comment

Last week, Michelle, Jen and I took the train over to Pisa. It was a gorgeous, warm, blue sky day and the tower, as advertised, was leaning. Easily the most entertaining aspect of it, however, was watching hundreds of...

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Honey is hot

Jordan Posted onDecember 12, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Best as I can tell, every man, woman and child in Europe keeps bees. No really, I just can’t get over how every store, every market, every roadside stand is loaded with twenty different kinds of locally produced honey,...

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Ars Electronica

Jordan Posted onDecember 4, 2007February 25, 2015 2 Comments

A few days ago, I mentioned that Michelle and I had seen an interesting piece of art at the Palazzo Strozzi, Christian Nold’s “Emotion Mapping Greenwich Village”, in which he’d created a mood map of Greenwich Village by hooking...

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Affectionately Yours

Jordan Posted onDecember 3, 2007February 25, 2015 2 Comments

Our return to the States is still a bit over three weeks away, but a shift as big as this takes some time to prepare for, so I’ve already begun to plan. Specifically, I’m trying to decide which European...

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Mood Maps

Jordan Posted onDecember 2, 2007February 25, 2015 Leave a Comment

Fellow couchsurfer Francesco tipped us off late last week to the opening of the Strozzina Centro di Cultura Contemporanea, the Center for Contemporary Culture at the Palazzo Strozzi. The Palazzo Strozzi dates to the late 1400’s, when it was...

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