Archive for the ‘WWK Light’ Category
Sunday, October 19th, 2008
-Glasgow, Scotland, is home to the tallest cinema in the world. The building is 203 feet tall and houses 18 movie screens, a bar and a snack counter on each level.
-Alexander Graham Bell (inventor of the telephone) is Scottish though he moved to Canada at age 23 so most of ...
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Wednesday, September 17th, 2008
-I'm sick with a cold. Like really sick. But the problem is, unlike at home, I can't just pop a few Airborne and spend the day in bed being a sissy. Not that I don't want to be a sissy (I assure you, I have no problem with it) but ...
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Sunday, September 14th, 2008
-NYC is the city that never sleeps, and London is a city that shuts down at 6PM on Sundays (or at least all the grocery stores close). These guys will never compare with an attitude like that. (Admittedly, I'm bitter from my 7PM grocery run that ended up fruitless.)
-The ...
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Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008
Just found a bunch of notes I made and somehow lost in my mess of things!
-In Ireland license plates are marked first with the year of the car then the county of residence. In Scotland, license plates are marked with the county from which the vehicle was purchased then ...
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Monday, September 1st, 2008
-Based on my last flight weigh-in my bag weighs 14.5 kilograms or 31.967 pounds... Somehow I've lost 7lbs of luggage without realizing it... This concerns me...
-I went to Killarney, Ireland, and no one had even heard of the Christmas song "Christmas in Killarney" http://www.amazon.com/Christmas-In-Killarney/dp/B00160U46I/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1219600723&sr=8-4
-For a country known for drinking they ...
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Monday, August 18th, 2008
- No one jay-walks in the Scandinavian countries.
-I describe myself as "a mover and a shaker" more than is socially acceptable... But is that ever really socially acceptable?
-There are no street vendors in Norway. I think that is because it would be far too expensive. On Friday night I finally saw a ...
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
-The guessing game of "Will this water have bubbles or not" is getting a little old.
-I have a new green Carlsberg pen to try to hold on to!
-When my wallet was stolen in Athens along with my cash and credit cards I lost my Student ID. Luckily I made a copy of ...
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Tuesday, August 12th, 2008
- On two occasions Swedes I randomly started conversations with told me that if I had been Swedish they would have assumed I was drunk for just coming up and talking to them but since I was American it was okay because they "know Americans are crazy". (Swedes tend to ...
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Monday, August 11th, 2008
-No more bagel stands. They have been replaced with sweet stands that sell favored liquorice.
-In America I always get made fun of for never eating hot dog buns with my hot dog. It's not the calories, it's the fact that the bun is three times the size of the dog! ...
Posted in Sweden, WWK Light | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, August 5th, 2008
-In Poland there are just as many bagel-with-no-cream-cheese stands as there are in Turkey but not nearly as many corn-on-the-cob places.
-The fridges are a bit of a let down... nothing is EVER cold!
-People here are really into the heavy duty sandals with socks.
-You know how there are always Special Reports ...
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