...I landed in Oslo, where I fed on €15 sandwiches all day and admired depressing empty Norwegian grayness outside...I took the onward flight to Amsterdam, arrived in the evening and cycled with my 20kg backpack to a friend's place...we went out on the town (Monday night), talked to girls in the red light area, had expensive beers in a touristy bar full of pickpockets and made it safely home nevertheless...took the morning bus to Brussels and final sat ...

...couldn't stop wondering how ubercool the city has become since I last visited in 2001; granted I was a poor student then and a street stand hotdog seemed like a fortune; Manhattan is still freaking expensive though :)...wondered how in all stores they seemed to have double, swinging doors without any PUSH/PULL sign on them; basically this gives you four separate ways to approach the problem; I usually succeeded on the third attempt;...was appalled at no ce...

...I landed again at the world's biggest airport and was surprised to find out some of the airport staff didn't even speak proper English. It's actually cool to think you can get a legal job in this country so quickly after immigrating......I took the aptly named "plane train" (sounds cute) between Atlanta airport's numerous terminals and I enjoy the way terminal letters are pronounced on the train's PA system ("D, as in David", "A, as in Alph...