tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-50177562367012963412011-04-21T13:41:49.625-04:00THE CHRONICLES OF ROBS' NORTH EAST EUROPEAN ADVENTURErobshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02225162527623813932noreply@blogger.comBlogger281100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5017756236701296341.post-81298909029994176642009-05-03T16:11:00.003-04:002009-05-03T16:14:18.270-04:00

So, in going threw things, I found this random video i secretly took of a choir while inside St. Basil's I believe...

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Today I take you to the city of Vladmir.This is one of the oldest cities in Russia, and is in fact home to the ancient Russian capital.This was just a brief stop over trip. We ran in to use the rest room in a was museum. And paid astronomical amounts of money to go inside St. Demetrius Cathedral that was home to some world heritage site frescoes... they were old... but they were small, and i've

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Ok, to those of you out there who are actually my loyal followers... I'm so sorry this is taking a while to get to... I do realize Russia is what everyone has been waiting for, and I swear to you, I did in fact go to russia... it just happens to be that going to russia followed quickly by home and then school is not conducive to blogging. I also appologize b/c this is going to be a super long

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Wow... I can't believe its been over 2 weeks... and sooo much has happened since I left Hamburg. But the last few days went by like all partings tend to. Too slow, but too fast. Involved lots of hugging cheek kissing... which we all know I love. And Me Tomoko, Demetri, and Paul went out to dinner on Saturday night. Just the pizza place Tomoko and I had ate at during the Germany/Turkey match

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... for somebody else...I'm usually pretty good about being modest... or at least not purposely bragging... but well... I'm currently staying in the fanciest schwanky hotel I have ever been in.  I'm in Moscow, Russia by the way... To my traveler's irritation, I don't think I'm anywhere near the main part of the city... to my self indulgent side... i'm debating whether to get a russian, turkish,

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This last weekend trip to Stockholm was possibly one of the most stressful flip-flop back and forth decisions I've ever made. It almost made me feel like a politician. Here's the drama: Stockholm is far away. No really, its anywhere between 10-17 hours away by train. Seeing as I invested in a Eurail, I intended to use it for everything. But when you are at the last weekend of your trip,

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So as you may have figured out by now, there are a lot of new posts this week. It isn't to say I sat and did them all at once... more that I've been working on them at home... and Poland took a lot of time. I also did something I've never done before... I started editing my pictures... making them better quality etc... or at least thats what I've been telling myself... its rather time consuming

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Which is to say, not as much as you would think… And for those of you who are completely lost on the joke, “Belinsky” is a very very very Polish name… Which, if you happen to be in Poland, people like to point out to you… a lot… and then they believe you should be able to speak polish, then they question why your parent’s didn’t teach you to speak polish, and then they try to guess when your

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Ok,So as things are winding down here, things tend to go wrong. Things such as I have used up the capacity of my online picture storage, so cant upload anymore without paying (which i think is totally lame, especially since they decided to count my asia pictures)... also, today, I managed to blow both my power converter and my adapter... meaning i cant charge any electronics or plug in my

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This is one of my more serious posts. Though not as graphic as the one from last year dealing with the Khmer Rouge and the Killing Fields… The topic of Auschwitz is just as grim, if not more so. On this day, it rained… it shifted back and forth between thunder showers and a constant drizzle. Appropriate weather for where we were going. We opted to take a private tour, as we figured it

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So, here are all my pictures from my spontaneous trip to Berlin along with the pics from the Obama rally and video of a very enthusiastic older gentleman.

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Ok, so maybe I’m obsess over Kennedy’s famous speech just a little too much, and really I just wanted Obama to say it, just once, in jest, during his own speech in Berlin. For those of you who are completely clueless for whatever reason, “Ich bin ein Berliner”, literally translates to, “I am a jelly doughnut.” See below for original speech clip and a full explanation from Eddie Izzard. But

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Welcome again to the latest edition of your weekly robs update! Ok, so clearly I may have been watching waaaaaay too much CNN, but it’s the only channel I have in English, and I just started getting it two weeks ago (I’m not counting the random reality tv shows on MTV that they don’t dub over)… And what a two weeks to get the news… especially for someone interested into

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So clearly even if I say I’m not doing any traveling for a weekend, I’m still doing something… and well, last weekend was no different. I finally got around to touring around Hamburg, followed up by a day trip out to Lübeck (ok so I lied, I did travel, but not far… only about an hour). Friday Friday night after work Fathi (Turkey) took me and Tomoko out to “the city of

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Soooooo…. This weekend turned out to be quite the high powered adventure through central Europe. I met up with one of my GSPIA friends, Chansonette, in Strasbourg, France… we then headed out to the country side and visited Selestat and Comar. That was followed up by a trip to Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, and from there we parted ways and I stopped off in Koln (Cologne), Germany. The reason

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No, I haven't disappeared, I just haven't felt like writing anything up in the past week... maybe its depression over the football loss, who knows... but I do have updates and what not now... In case you haven't noticed I've added a map up above the posts and I'll be marking off my routes and things as I head through Europe. I've also finally got around to picking up a bike and made the 6

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Ok, so before I jump right into it... I just wanted to show you this first... this is a shop... a shop that sells two things... Wine and Shoes... I'm not sure what else europe can pair with wine, i mean first ice cream, now shoes? Crazy Europeans...So, yes, the DE beat Turkey in the Semi-finals... you really couldn't ask for a bigger rivalry considering the large Turkish population actually

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While I was trying to avoid using the most cliché of quotes for the title, nothing else quite fit... And if you're going to Denmark, how can you not quote Hamlet? But this here is the furtherest extent of any Hamlet reference, as once in Kobenhavn (Copenhagen) there really wasn't any acknowledgment of the story... nor was there any real reference to Vikings except in souvenir shops

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Greetings to everyone on this most glorious of Friday mornings! Why glorious, you ask? Well b/c last night Germany totally kicked Portugal's ass in the quarter finals... and well... Portugal was the favored team to win the tournament.We opted to watch the game in the Portuguese district, at a little Portuguese bar, this made it even more exciting. The only thing I can do to relate what this

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A brief rundown of the events of the past few days: My weekend began and ended in rather the same fashion… me having issues w/ the train system Normally, the trains run rather smoothly and there’s a fork at one point and you either stay on the train your on or head over to the other side of the platform to grab the opposite train… now for whatever reason, the trains weren’t lined up time wise…

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For whatever reason, I can't go back and edit that last post to add in the rest of this stuff, so its now here:The video of the spinning things: And then the pictures include the view from the apartment, along with a picture of my Ikea glass... Ikea all that swedish stuff... except this one glass, which is apparently made in Russia.

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The City So far, I can say that I really like Hamburg. Where I live and where I work is nice, and friendly and clean. The middle areas I see as I ride the city train everyday… well maybe not so nice pretty and clean… but at the same time they graffiti words like, “IKEA” on the wall… clearly that person got a “build it yourself” bookshelf with a screw missing. One of

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... an American, Brazilian, Peruvian, Hungarian, Japanese, Italian, Spaniard, and Turk walk into a German cafeteria?Robin's lunch hourOh, and instead of trying to learn some German before I came over, I should have tried to learn American politics.

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“So how many times have you been in the institution?” While I recognize that this phrase wasn’t meant to be funny, I couldn’t help giggle, and fail miserably at explaining why, while my quasi-english speaking companions just sort of stared at me, and tried to explain to me how people usually study at MPI 4 or 5 times. I can’t help but to think of all the academics/students I know

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2957… that’s the number of purely just legal journals I have access to online through MPI. This doesn’t include their paper journals; this doesn’t include journals under any other subject heading. This is JUST law. Sifting through mountains of books and stacks over the last three days, filling my brain with a surplus of information concerning torts, harmonization of civil and common law

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Just real quick, I want to apologize the upcoming lack of order of things. I've just kind of been writing things down as they pop in my head throughout the day resulting in sort of a haphazard collection of thoughts... so while "settling in" was supposed to be one long post, it will now be at least two, but the first part is necessary in order to move on to another post I've written, and so I

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Planes Airports provide one of the best places to sit and go people watching because, well, people in airports are actually interesting. Unfortunately this trip was not fruitful in people watching entertainment… with the exception of the 10 minutes spent with about 7 20 something Irish guys. The main reason for this is because I didn’t really spend very much time in any one airport. By the

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Guten Tag and Hey guys for swinging by my new blog!As you might notice as you poke around, I've become far more blog interactive than last year... this does not necessarily mean that I will be any better about updating my blog. But since you are all here, there are a few things that need done. First and formost, you should subscribe to my blog. What this does is sends e-mails to you whenever I

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