Category: travel
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Hvar: Island of Hvarguments and Hvangovers (Part I)
Lest you think our vacation to Croatia was just sun-dappled blissfulness every single second, I bring you Hvar. Actually, Hvar was really a nice little beach town. It was quaint, with narrow medieval streets, cute little square where throngs of young people sat in the shadow of a large church talking and eating ice cream,…
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Croatia: What Goes With Oysters? Pasta Cake of Course.
Meandering around medieval cities, popping into photography museums, and lying on pebble-y beaches is all well and good. But what I really like to do on vacation is drink wine during normal business hours while my fellow cubicle dwellers are in over-air-conditioned purgatory. So, we went to the Peljesac peninsula for a day. One of…
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Wars, Orphans and Orbs: Dubrovnik’s Old Town
My travel buddy for life XFE and I live in a part of Northern Virginia/Greater Washington DC area known as Old Town. It’s pretty cute. Full of cobblestone sidewalks, antique shops, and historic buildings with plaques announcing that George Washington once drank some cider on this exact location. Most of the old houses, churches and…
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Hotel Crashing: Villa Dubrovnik
I was riding the metro to work the other morning, a pretty mundane task, since I’ve done it pretty much every working day for the last 10 or so years I’ve been in D.C. It was 7:45 in the morning and already a muggy 78 degrees. I had just walked the 10 minutes from my…
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Croatia: Sometimes Getting There is Half the Fun*
(*OK, maybe not half. Maybe more like, a third of the fun. Or even a smaller fraction. If I were good at math, I’d be able to tell you what a smaller fraction would be. But I’m not. Back to the blogging.) First, let me clarify: it does not take 20 hours to get to…
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Unusual Vacation Pictures: Croatia
Dober dan, my patient little Internet friends! That’s Croatian for “hello.” Actually, it’s “good day,” but it’s the primary greeting everyone uses. I’ve actually been trying to make a point of learning some words in the language of the countries my permanent travel-partner-for-life XFE and I visit. I did pretty well on the Croatian. I…
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Friday Links: Freaks in Oceans and Metros Edition
I’ve got back-to-back trips over the next two weeks and will blog when I can. In the meantime, I suppose I should brush up on my R. Kelly lyrics in case I get stuck on a tarmac, and be glad I don’t have to take public transportation in San Francisco. See you soon! These folks…
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Friday Links: Lot’s of Flowing Locks Edition
This week, huh kids? I know. Crazy! More people I know had babies, this time in London. Welcome Connor K! Some other people I don’t know had babies, also in London. Congrats, Tatum-Dewan-Tatums. I finally finished off the brisket. Busy days, to be sure. So kick back this weekend, relax, and have a “Manhattan. And…
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The XFE Packing Solution
(Editor’s Note: XFE is back with another guest post.) That’s right friends I am back and not with just some hotel crashing post full of pictures, but with real, get to know XFE content. As readers of ThePoeLog know, Poe struggles to get herself properly packed for all of the fabulous trips she takes and…
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Friday Links: Lazy Sunday Edition
Since I let XFE take over the blog on Friday, I’m a bit late on links. But there were a few illuminating things on the Interwebs this week, including fancy planes and flight attendants, an apparatus for lazy eating, and a fear-mongering infographic. (XFE fans – don’t worry: he’ll be back with another post on…