I’ve been a member of couchsurfing since about 2010/2011 . It has been one of the best things I have ever done. I started really using it when I was in France studying abroad. I continued to use it ever since for hosting, surfing and meet ups. While many people think it is just a…
Category: Central and Eastern Europe
Tiraspol Trotting
06/09/2017 The first thing I saw after leaving the train station was this little park. It was slightly less of an eye sore. The park is called Kirov park, like the one in St Petersburg. I’ll go out on a limb here and assume it was named after Sergey Kirov, an early Bolshevik leader. Someone…
Getting the cadet to Tiraspol
My trip to Transnistria had a major hiccup in the way of getting there. The weather! I mentioned in the article before that I was jaded with Prague winter and that was how I decided to make a field trip a bit south. I knew I wasn’t going somewhere that south on the Adriatic sea,…
The first time the cadet went somewhere that does not legally exist
A couple of years ago, I was having a major mental block when it came to writing and doing research for my master’s thesis that I should have completed months before. I would get to something cool, then discover it was useless, or another exhaustive study was already done. I would also lose focus and…