teresa and i scouted out some places for CELEBRATION ROOM #4 and decided upon a nice space right in front of karlsplatz, an iconic viennese square dominated by the karlskirche, smack dab in the middle of the city. despite the grey weather, we marked off a large area between some trees and light poles...
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………..so after staying up all night we headed up to mario’s roof for breakfast! but our mini-nap up above bienna’s steeples and red rooftops was cut short by an increasingly burning sun, so we crashed in mario’s room and woke again around 1, just in time for the flea market. biked back to teresa’s,...
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That first night pretty much set the our schedule for the next few days in Vienna: up around noon, breakfasting, wandering about, swimming, eating more, meeting friends, going out, dancing dancing dancing dancing dancing, riding bikes, and getting home just in time for the bakeries to open. We ran to the Alte Donau for...
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from brief berlin i was tossed unknowingly into a tornado of dancing and carousing in vienna. a 10 hour train ride from berlin, i was lucky to find myself a spot in the only air conditioned car speeding through a rebuilt dresden; along the northern czech republic’s cliff-lined rivers; in and out of prague’s...
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i have never had a bad time in berlin. not even when i lost my cell phone on new year’s; or when i coincidentally ran into an ex-boyfriend in the turkish market; or when i got busted TWICE in one trip for not buying a train ticket. for some reason this city just calls...
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forgot to mention a few unforgettable meals i had before/while I was leaving for my trip! debi took alex and i out for a FANTASTIC meal, which required walking from di pietro todd (after a great cut, thanks debi!!!) through chinatown and into north beach for a fancy and delicious dinner at the house!...
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ian and i go way back. we were just kids studying together back in munich, an odd couple but somehow it worked out. maybe it’s our motivation that keeps us connected– ian always pushed me to do things i was too jaded or too cool to do and i always told him what music...
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the latest idea i have and want to share with you all are my CELEBRATION ROOMS! both public and private spaces will be transformed into spaces in which everyone, friends and strangers, are invited to celebrate. celebrate what, you may ask? why, whatever you wish to celebrate! the day! success! a reunion! a birthday!...
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HOT DOGS at bark near olivia’s! veggie dog w/salt & pepper fries, slaw dog, classic dog, root beer, off-the-hook onion rings!!! don’t even get me STARTED on the food out here!!!! AREPAS at caracas! too much to go into detail here, but just check out the looks on everyone’s faces and you’ll know it...
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new york is always such a TRIP—-full of inspiration and new ideas and faces and equal doses of reality and unreal-ness. I’m so grateful to have had the chance to spend time in this great American city. Here’s what’s been up for the past week, it’s so hard to cram it in…: Staying with...
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