October 2011
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Amsterdam: Day 2
me: [reading a store sign] funky monkey!  hey, you wanted a cup of tea, right?  ‘cause it’s a coffee shop, and you could probably get one, there. emma: yeah, but it’s a coffeeshop. me: i’m sure they sell tea, as well. emma: no.  ruth.  it’s a coffeeshop. me: …  oh.  oh.
Oct 28th
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Amsterdam, Day 1:
six-klicks-east: Eating pizza with mump in our hostel room and watching a Star Wars marathon on Dutch tv. party.  hard.
Oct 26th
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Oct 26th
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Bruges: Day 4
drinking belgian beer with six-klicks-east after a long day of shopping. good times.
Oct 25th
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Oct 24th
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Bruges: Day 2
yes, behold, my first post since The Curious Incident of the Laptop in the Parisian Apartment. i laughed, i cried, etc etc.  … mostly cried, if i’m honest… and possibly ruined that portion of the trip for my mother… but we can’t dwell on the past!  i have already picked out the new laptop i’m going to buy once i return to australia, and also an expensive gift...
Oct 23rd
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This is whitepajamas, here, posting on behalf of...
Obviously posts on this blog are going to be few and far between, for a while, but if you happen to have a spare laptop for sale, or the names and addresses of culprits that I can beat up in Parisian vengeance, Liam Neeson-style, please wave your outraged fists in my direction, now. 
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Oct 17th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Paris: Day 2
no fewer than five people tried to shortchange us today, because they thought that since we were tourists, we wouldn’t notice. we noticed. BUT WE DID NOT LET THAT SPOIL OUR DAY. we started off walking from our apartment to the bastille, and from there down to the seine.  we followed the river until we reached the jardins des tuileries, which is where we stopped for lunch.  i had a crepe....
Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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Oct 16th
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tonight's entertainment: an unscheduled game of...
Oct 16th
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Oct 15th
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Oct 15th
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Paris: Day 1
i am just back from a brief shopping expedition, and everything is going well so far!  i managed to communicate fairly decently with all the shopkeepers, but need to learn the french for “sorry i’m butchering your language.” i’m not too bad at reading french (that is to say, i can bumble along without hurting myself), but i couldn’t string a grammatically correct...
Oct 15th
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meanwhile, this trip seems to be a lesson about...
an actual conversation that took place between my mother and the wife of the man who owned our hotel in rome, over breakfast this morning: hotel owner’s wife (h.o.w.): er… limousine?  l’ora? my mother: oh, no, i’m full.   h.o.w.: (confused) … cappuccino? my mother: oh!  oh, si, si.  thank you. h.o.w.: (confused)  er… limousine? my mother: (confused)...
Oct 14th
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whitepajamas replied to your post: I AM IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS SIX-KLICKS-EAST. I FEEL LIKE TWO SHOWS THAT I LOVE FINALLY DID A CROSSOVER EPISODE. you’re writing fic in your head, aren’t you.
Oct 14th
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I AM IN THE SAME COUNTRY AS SIX-KLICKS-EAST.
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Rome (but not really): Day 6
still typing up the update for days 1, 2, 3 and 4.  one day i will finish it.  one day.  probably when i get back to australia, at this rate. day 6: pompeii! it is kind of weird to be able to walk into a place you’ve never visited before and confidently say, “i recognise that street/wall/stone/oven/brothel.  that is a very familiar street/wall/stone/oven/brothel.” i am also...
Oct 14th
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i am starting to think that texas is empty, and...
Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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Oct 14th
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“One of the traps of adolescence is the sort of paranoid resentment that somehow...”
– Stephen Fry  (via doeheart)
Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Oct 13th
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Rome: Day 5
you may have noticed that i have not posted any updates regarding days 1, 2, 3 or 4.  these are coming.  i promise.  it’s just taking me a while.  mostly because i only have time to type it up late at night, and Late Night Ruth is also known as Overly Verbose Ruth. onward! day 5: the trevi fountain, part ii: the coin-throwing edition, the spanish steps and the galleria borghese and...
Oct 13th
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Oct 12th
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Oct 12th
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what a lovely evening.
we started out with dinner at our usual trattoria (yes, we’ve been here less than four days and we already have a “usual”), where the head waiter put on quite a show for us.  i imagine it was all a ploy to get us to spend more money, but we had a good time, regardless.  he put a great deal of effort in helping us pick out the perfect meal, and since everything he picked out for...
Oct 12th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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zwischenfischen replied to your post: i’m trying to type up a brief summary of my first three days in rome, and while i’m yet to finish writing about day one, the entry is already seven hundred and thirty words long. have you tried tartufo yet? it’s the holy grail of desserts. i have not, but it is now on my “list of things to do tomorrow.”
Oct 11th
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i'm trying to type up a brief summary of my first...
i just have a lot of feelings.
Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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Oct 11th
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i have had gelato for lunch every day since we got...
Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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Oct 10th
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