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the learning curve skip to content the learning curve new knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth the more truth we have to work with the richer we become kurt vonnegut jr my top 6 oklahoma experiences i ve been inspired by this article brought to my attention by obscure local social blog the lost ogle in case you re too lazy to click it s a lonely planet article by a native oklahoman robert read more the swedish invasion spotify hits the u s the last 12 months of my technological life have been focused on my iphone i don t think i ve bought any gadget that has affected my daily goings on as much as that little smartphone but as read more pictures from the british isles i finally put up my pictures from my europe trip the other night after holly and i went to ghana in may we broke off from the group in london and traveled through dublin liverpool read more jul 18 2 comments november 10 2012 the full story part 3 you read yesterday in parts 1 2 about how after much running scrambling searching and decision making we finally made it to our train that would take us back to vienna or so we thought part 3 bad luck i don t believe in bad luck not in the slightest i do believe in bad coincidences things that happen that you look back on later and go funny how that worked out this bad coincidence started with and i am not making this up a black cat we were standing by this forsaken train station recovering our breath after having just run uphill to catch a train that would come in 2 minutes and take us home when holly saw a black cat cross the train tracks i point this out again not because i think it means anything but only because what was about to happen made us think later of that black cat and go really a black cat how cliche can you get so the cat crossed the tracks holly made cat noises at it and we waited for our train to come holly ate some pringles and i took some photos satisfied that we were home free lazily a train worker came out of the station and smiled at us we smiled back she said something in croatian i said train and pulled out our tickets to confirm to her that we were good to go she smiled and shook her head and repeated train right i said train we have tickets wir haben karten i repeated in german just in case that would work nein she said ja i said ne she said da i said no she said no train oh i said read more jul 17 1 comment november 10 2012 the full story parts 1 2 by now you ve probably heard about our misadventures in getting deported from europe if you haven t here s the basic story due to a misinterpretation of immigration laws and to them being changed in the past several years holly and i had the misfortune of not being allowed back into the european union after a weekend in croatia which we had taken because we thought we needed to to get new stamps on our passports and essentially reset our visas unfortunately our interpretation of the law was not correct and after being stopped at the border crossing back into the eu we were pulled off the train put in a police car and driven back to croatia to be left in the middle of the highway with nowhere to go and no way of getting there but believe it or not getting pulled off a train and put in a police car and dropped off at a border was not everything that happened to us that day that was just the bureaucratic icing on the cake we haven t even really told everyone about our full november 10th just the climax that resulted in our 3 month unintentional trip back to the us but a story with all climax and no lead up isn t a good story so here s the lead up part 1 hidden gem all travel is an adventure and we like to travel purposefully with adventure in mind but that philosophy is a gamble and sometimes it turns out like november 9th 2012 a day spent in beautiful luxury in a rarely explored part of the world in a hidden gem that we can call our own that day the gamble paid off but sometimes the gamble results in a day like november 10th rovinj croatia our hidden gem we spent november 9th in our hidden gem rovinj croatia a city so beautiful that it should be popular but so remote that it isn t situated on the istrian peninsula of croatia the italo croat village is another venice without the crowds but with all the atmosphere the 18 hours we spent here were fantastical romantic and bold and we went to sleep november 9th with satisfaction and the exhilaration of new discoveries in our lungs november 10th we woke up still in our own dreamland but in a rush we had to leave town quickly to catch a bus then a train to take us to the neighboring country of slovenia and then back home to austria we walked through the rovinj streets in the still fresh morning hating to say goodbye so soon to our discovery but we were ready for more adventure just not this kind read more jun 26 vienna video blog 2 here s our newest video blog detailing our lives here in vienna from february until now here is our joint vienna blog as detailed in the video and here is our first video blog from last year may 15 2 comments 11 tips for living in studying in or touring vienna so i seem to be writing at a pace of about one blog a month now that works i guess i want everyone to come visit my adopted city i love okc my hometown but i love vienna just as much and i love to show it off that s an open invitation to visit by the way the cafes the parks the music the food all of it together makes me extremely proud of and in love with this city every day living in europe even getting to visit europe is definitely a privilege that i am constantly grateful for however if you are going to visit or live in this lovely city here s a couple of tips you should know about first they are not necessarily imperatives but they do make being here an easier and more enriching experience 1 stand on the right this should really be covered in europe 101 or intro to major cities yet it s amazing how many people come to an escalator and plant themselves directly in front of an oncoming hoard of rushed commuters oblivious to the fact that everyone going their speed aka the speed of the escalator is standing on the right to allow others with more important things to do pass by there s even signs in case you can t comprehend context clues 2 learn to like coffee it would be a tragedy to come to vienna the city most known for its coffeehouse culture out of all other european cities and not be able to properly appreciate the experience of sipping a melange in a 100 year old cafe frequented by freud or cooling down with a properly made viennese eiskaffee on a warm sunny patio it s quintessential vienna and i know very few viennese who will say no to morning coffee an afternoon kaffeepause or a cup to go down with dessert after dinner if you don t like it black that s fine as even the most famous viennese drink the melange is an espresso with milk foam no one will judge you start with an espresso with whipped cream schlagobers and milk until you can manage the kleiner brauner literally small brown one just a shot of espresso read more apr 11 1 comment going thermal note none of these pictures are mine because i tend to be too busy to take any pictures whenever i visit a therme it s somewhat surprising how much austrians love water being a land locked country and all there s no ocean no sea in sight with the closest major body of water the adriatic about a 6 hour drive away nevertheless or perhaps therefore once the slightest sliver of warmth shines through after a long winter austrians flock to the nearest river lake or pond treating each one as if it were waikiki beach sand is brought in and scattered along major and minor bodies of water from the danube to the tiny pond down the street and people lay out under umbrellas and on beach chairs sipping wine and slathering on sunscreen maybe it s a reaction to the four long months of constant snow or the indignation at not having a coastline of their own but during the summer on a hot day it s hard to find an austrian anywhere but near the water the city shuts down entire families take off work austrians take summer and water seriously so what are they to do in the wintertime or what if the riverside is full or what if they prefer chlorinated water to lake water austrians have a solution for that they re called thermes therme wien you ve probably heard of a thermal bath a pool or hot spring using natural thermal water piped from underground you okies have hot springs arkansas just a couple of hours away this is the original concept of a therme tear ma and historically austria and germany have had a lot of them germany has baden baden and austria has baden two small towns renowned for their thermal baths the habsburgs were known to frequent thermal spas as well as famous viennese like beethoven and freud austria especially has a seemingly abundant supply of thermal water with historic spa towns popping up frequently up and down the alpine foothills many of them even established by the romans in their roman bath style but the connotation of a therma has morphed from this strictly thermal spa meaning to something even more ubiquitous you or i might possibly call it a rec center but the focus isn t really on sports it s kind of like a community pool except it s mostly indoors and has an extremely relaxed feel it s a combination spa sauna relaxation place and kids fun area it s everywhere and it s a typical weekend getaway and it s amazing read more mar 13 food of austria kebabs full disclosure kebabs actually didn t originate in austria or even in europe however i would not be doing justice to myself if i didn t start this new series off without my favorite food common in vienna and common it is kebab joints and stands seem to be more popular than hamburgers or even traditional austrian würstel sausage stands if you ve never tried a kebab you may think that s strange how can a turkish delicacy become more common in europe than a lot of european food because it s amazing that s why below is what s technically called a döner kebab the döner part specifies that the meat most commonly lamb is roasted on a vertical rotating spit this process has other names like the arabic shawarma or the greek gyro but the turkish austrian hybrid is its own special masterpiece the lamb is shaved off the spit packed into a warm pita roll or other flatbread and topped with lettuce tomato onion yoghurt sauce and chili döner kebab other versions exist with maybe extra vegetables like cabbage or a different sauce but what i just described is the classic it s the one you ll find at every kebab stand in vienna of which you find a ton you never need to walk more than five minutes before you come across another and at some subway or tram stops 2 4 stands are sometimes grouped all together all competing to serve the best combination of meat vegetables and bread how does it taste i find it best on a cold day when the warm bread and meat are accented by the spiciness of the chili but cooled down by the tomatoes and yoghurt sauce you may think i should be ashamed that my favorite viennese food is actually turkish but turkish culture and cuisine most notably the kebab have become so ingrained in viennese culture the past 50 100 years that buying a kebab is just as normal for an austrian as buying a schnitzel or a käsekrainer i ll get to those later dürüm kebab there is one other common version in case you want all the insides without the sometimes ungainly pita flatbread a dürüm kebab is the same meat and vegetables but instead wrapped inside a lavash a very soft thin bread that is basically a tortilla also good with an advantage of sometimes being able to hold a bit more meat and vegetables i m very strategic about my kebabs i m going to go eat one now older entries subscribe by email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up about me will kooi i m a 25 year old 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