(b)logophile

Every time I visit Germany by train, something goes wrong. Once I spent most of the day waiting on platforms, after some perfect-storm-like sequence of feedback effects interrupted not just the service I had a ticket for but also the fallback service we were advised to take instead, and then even the unscheduled service arranged [...]

Olga had a conference in Lithuania, and found cheap tickets with a layover in Stockholm. She’s got family there, so she arranged for a weekend visit and managed to convince me to come along. Here are a few photos from the trip. If you don’t want the commentary, just check out the gallery; if you [...]

Yes! Today this very afternoon we will take flight for the land of rebetika, ouzo, tzatziki and philosophy. Expect many photos on our return (end of next week), but I doubt very much we’ll be spending much time online before then.

Matt has put his photos of the Glendalough trip on Flickr, there are some beautiful shots. (And yes, those are my feet.)

There’s one other recent acquisition that’s so cool it gets its own separate post. Last Friday at the Boekenmarkt Spui I bought a beautiful photo-reproduction of (large parts of) the Book of Kells. I’ve put a few amateurish photographs below the fold (they’re fairly large images), and the wikipedia page has lots of more professional [...]