Travels on dlow's blog

Potato

Sat, 08 Dec 2018 14:42:29 +0000

If you ever are in Brugge and have run out of things to do. I would recommend paying the fries museum a visit.

Potato is the plant which possesses the most numerous varieties.

The following is a summary of what I have learned from my visit. It is about 10% of the information actually presented.

How I got scammed

Sat, 20 Jan 2018 01:46:27 +0000

TLDR: use apps like uber to prevent taxi scams where they use turbo meter.

The story

We arrived in Vilnius via bus. We were thinking whether to get to your hotel via Uber but we decided to support the local taxi company so we took the taxi that was conveniently waiting at the bus bay, not even at the taxi stand.¹

I did a quick check to see how much an Uber would cost and it seemed like the going rate was 1 EUR/km. Our hotel was about 1.7km away, which meant about 3 EUR. Being unsuspecting tourists, we boarded the taxi without asking for a fixed price, thinking the meter would record it fairly. About half way through, I peeked over the front seat and to my horror, the meter displayed 10 EUR.

Memes from Xmas trip

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:28:19 +0000

Inspired by classical art memes from instagram, my travel companion and I decided to create memes from photos of art taken during our trip.

Note: This is done in the name of fun and I do not mean to offend anyone. So please do not take them too seriously.

After two weeks in San Francisco

Mon, 08 May 2017 20:45:42 -0700

It’s been two weeks since I’ve arrived. I wanted to jot down some of my impressions of the city. This is the perspective of someone who is in the US for the first time.

Some pictures, especially panaromic ones, should be viewed in full res (in new tabs or equivalent).

Impressions and thoughts

The sun
- Seriously, this place has the best weather, it’s sunny and cool.
City built for cars.

End season skiing

Sun, 23 Apr 2017 01:28:47 +0800

We landed at Geneva airport and had a transfer cab that brought us to the chalet. Despite having only 2 hours of sleep the night before, I couldn’t fall sleep en route.

When we arrived, I realized I wasn’t dressed for the environment - I wore snow boots when there were no snow at all. Thank goodness for comfortable snow boots. We checked in, bought our ski passes and rented our gears.