The Dromomaniac
The latest fake e-ticket I made was a doozy: a one-way reservation to go from Guwahati in the northeastern Indian state of Assam to Bangkok on Druk Air, Bhutan’s national airline AND issued from a Hungarian travel agency. I’m telling … Continue reading
The only thing more depressing than a night in a horrible hostel is the realization that I have to spend another night in the same hostel. Took me 12 rides to hitchhike from Leysin, Switzerland to Como, Italy, which I … Continue reading
Who wouldn’t love to stay and live in Switzerland for a while? Wages are astronomical, the economy is humming, the mountain cheese is ever delicious. Sadly, for Americans it is very difficult to work here legally, but I had an … Continue reading
If I were a professional blogger, you know, the kind of guy who has advertising, sponsors, links to everyone else’s e-books, etc., I wouldn’t be lumping the three or four things I want to talk about into one post. The … Continue reading
“My tailor is rich”, huh? Is this the kind of sentence that French businessmen are hot to know in English? I can imagine them calling every school in the book and asking if they teach important phrases such as “Can … Continue reading
This is the 25th anniversary of my traveling. For 25 straight years I have been going on pretty long trips (in excess of three months, I define it) and exactly 25 years ago this summer I flew to Brussels, Belgium … Continue reading
Few things are as alluring as a French girl’s accent when speaking English. (Likewise, it’s hard to imagine an unpopular French girl in America.) I have a friend in France named Carine Veugeois, and the two or three times we … Continue reading
I flew with Jet Airways, an Indian airline, from New York to Geneva via Brussels. It wasn’t a cheap ticket, $432 one way, but I made sure to get frequent flier miles as I read that they might join the … Continue reading
You can’t look at New York with old eyes. I have only explored a few days, but I walked a lot, over 15km through Manhattan my first day, and you can’t go by the old stereotypes. I’ll say it: New … Continue reading
