At Home In The Wasteland Travel Blog

I’m back from Italy! I’ll post about it later and upload the pics…and of course, I still have to post about Cardiff and the latest Mexican restaurant I ate at. In the meantime, I have to start packing up all my stuff because LSE is kicking me out of my dorm so they can rent [...]

I’m going on a holiday (or “hols”) in Italy from June 27-30. That’s British for “I’m taking a vacation in Italy.” I always thought “holiday” referred to Christmas, Easter, etc, but over here it doubles for “vacation.” Aren’t you glad I am here to translate this Britspeak for you? I’ll be in Rome, and then [...]

A few months ago, I posted some photos of Borough Market, an awesome market that is just a short walk from where I live. I’ve uploaded some more photos so you can see another part of my neighborhood – the area bordering the River Thames. I love living in this area. Unfortunately, I have to [...]

I went to Cardiff, Wales today AND ate at a Mexican restaurant for dinner, but I will talk about that later because I’ve been tagged by Cincy and will now attempt to complete the task. The ChildHood Meme: What 5 Things Do You Miss About Your Childhood? But first the somewhat complicated rules to this [...]

As I mentioned in my previous post about Greenwich, we decided to partake of some Mexican food after an exciting day of observing clocks at the Royal Observatory. I’ve decided that as a service to the internet community, I will always post a “review” of any Mexican restaurant I visit in London. So, today’s location [...]

Today we took a boat down the Thames to visit Greenwich, where the Prime Meridian is located: The best part of visiting the Royal Observatory is that you can put one foot in the Western hemisphere and the other foot on the Eastern hemisphere and say “OMG! I’m in two hemispheres!” Uhhh…yeah. There is also [...]

A few years ago, when a group of us were planning a weekend trip from Moscow to St. Petersburg, we went down to the train station to purchase our tickets. Somehow we ended up at Yaroslavsky Vokzal, which was across the street from Leningradsky Vokzal, the station with the Moscow-Petersburg ticket office. Nevertheless, we took [...]

Finally, we’ve been having some nice weather! The past few weeks have been a bit odd, with temps going down into the 50s…wearing a jacket in June just isn’t natural. This week’s weather is perfect: Whenever the temperature is anything above 75 degrees, the radio announcers like to say “Watch out, it’s a scorcher out [...]

I’m done with finals. My first one was a few weeks ago (Soviet/Russian Foreign Policy), and my last two – Politics and Policy of Russia and the Post Soviet States and Russian Sociology – were yesterday. I think I passed. Taking exams here is a very weird process. I’m used to GW, where you show [...]

I give up, the British are hopeless when it comes to Mexican food (or shall I say, Tex-Mex?). After a long day of studying ethnic conflict, the stagnation of the Communist Party under Brezhnev, and other mind-numbingly boring topics, Crystal, Taline, and I headed off to a nearby pub for dinner. For an appetizer, Taline [...]