La Vie Francaise

I have to say, I absolutely love living on the French Riviera; I mean, how could you not enjoy living in a place where it’s socially acceptable to drink at 8:00 am? (For those who are curious, I’m taking French lessons for seven more weeks here) This region is populated by people who [...]

About Last Night

For those that don’t know, which I’ll assume to be most of you, rakija (pronounced rok-ya) is the Serbian equivalent of moonshine, and is generally distilled from apples, pears or plums. It smells like fruit and tastes like burning; it also has a variety of other amazing uses, like removing paint, degreasing engines, and [...]

The Balkan Express Part 1

I only had my own cabin from Thessaloniki to the Macedonian border, when the Macedonian Osbournes joined me and rode all the way to Skopje (three hours away). I’m going to assume that the little boy was retarded; I make this assumption because he was chubby, cross-eyed, and spent eighty kilometers licking the window. [...]