happy birthday…to me and my blog
Well, doing a bit of cleaning around the blog I discovered that I started writing and posting photos exactly last year. First post – a ‘hello world’ kind of message – was posted on Jan 31, 2009. So, with a…
Hanoi
Following the last post – and as a sign of my re-found travel itch – here are some photos took last year in Vietnam. I spent only about 5 days in Vietnam, of which 3 were in Halong Bay (I…
beginning of spring ?
After a long period of freezing under the snow and quietly longing for the weather in Asia, it seems we are nearing spring. Finally. And so I start again to fret about new destinations, new travels, new adventures… Maybe I…
de casa noua
Nu, nu e (inca) vorba de mine in casa noua, desi o sa fie in curand un post si despre asta. Este vorba de relocarea “virtuala” a unei bune prietene, care acum are propriul domeniu si a shiny new WordPress.…
Bangkok
Bangkok is a very interesting city for a tourist. It is the gateway to Asia, so sooner or later everyone arrives here. Some will leave the city as quickly as possible, and some will stay longer. Besides the heat, air…
S.21
This is not going to be a cheerful post. S21 – for those who do not know – is the codename for one of the most brutal prisons, where thousands of people were tortured. It all happened when the Khmers…
a taste of things to come
Although in the last posts there were not many photos, that does not mean I took no photos. Not at all…
waiting in Phnom Penh
Random thoughts and pleasant memories. Written while waiting in Phnom Penh airport – have to put free WiFi to good use, right? Unfortunatally when I wanted to post this, my connection fell to pieces. So here it is, a few…
random thoughts on South-East Asia
I know some people already started to worry what’s with me – where are the posts, where are the pictures. Nothing happened – actually nothing bad happened. I’m enjoying this trip immensely, and I do not really find the time…
new adventures in Thailand
Now that I arrived in Chiang Mai, and am finally able to enjoy some nice-quality free WiFi I can write a bit more about what happened these last few days. The trip is going pretty well and my enthusiasm for…
in the land of smiles – or the furnace that I learned to love
This is not going to be a post with lots of pictures. Actually none at all. I am writing this from an Internet cafe – and thus not photo editing and sharing. For that you have to wait a bit…
time micro-management
I’m bad at it. I am leaving on Saturday and I still have no hotel reservations, no real plans, and I still have printouts from Lonely Planet lying around the house – unread… Even my passport is still at the…
the last day in Paris
This Sunday I returned from the oh-too-short trip to Paris, and now I can post the last pictures from the “City of Lights”. I found it very unpleasant that the weather was great while I was in a meeting room…
iPhone dying ? I hope it’s just Monday blues…
I am now frantically searching my room for the iPhone warranty. It seems that the problems it has cannot be solved by a simple restore. Of course, what I did manage was to wipe my music and podcasts collections. Fortunately…
St Denis, Montmartre and freezing
Today was the first free day spent in Paris. After the beautiful Wednesday and Thursday, today the weather proved…uncooperative. It was extremely cold, it rained a bit, and the wind was freezing cold. This however didn’t stop me from visiting…
back in Paris – and already loving it
Maybe the fact that I left the office in a hurry, with a lot of projects left hanging incomplete, I was very stressed on the plane and when I arrived. However, first steps in Paris changed all that back to…
Bucegi covered in mists
Well, it seems that the common element between my latest mountain trips is fog. Whether it was merely a distant mysterious curtain or an enveloping mass, it never dissipated. While for admiring the landscapes it proved an annoyance, for photographic…
weekend in Piatra Craiului
I have returned from a very active weekend in Piatra Craiului, and I am still nursing my wounds. I went there with Serban and Andreea – the only people left from a larger group which slowly dissolved. The plan was…
promotions, websites, and other news
While I still haven’t processed the last batch of photos from the Helsinki trip (the ones from the Sveaborg / Suomenlinna island), I did browse the net and found a few interesting links and newsworthy items. The great news is…
the Nordic adventure
A long time in the making, this post tells in short the trip I took to Helsinki and Tallinn. Thanks to a pretty interesting offer from Finnair (Finnish air carrier), I started toying with the idea of visiting Finland and…