http://www.bibliogrind.com A Writer & His Words . . . Working Their Way Around the World Thu, 29 Jul 2010 18:16:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en How to have a picnic in the rain: Bring an umbrella. Today we went on a lunch picnic that we had planned a few days ago: bread and butter, hardboiled eggs, tuna from the can, pickles and tomatoes and cheese, beer and iced coffee. We took Tram #22 from around our corner ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/29/another-summer-picnic/ I brought my laptop with me to Poland, but opened it three times in 16 days, and only to look up word definitions using my Merriam-Webster program. Well, I kind of figured I wouldn't get so much done, but that's okay because this vacation was all about relaxation, losing the ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/28/back-into-onto-with-novel-writing/ The Poles know their vodka and sausage. I'm really digging this traditional vodka, flavored with a unique blend of dried fruits, herbs and spices is said to have wonderful stomach settling properties, and is very tasty. You don't know that you're drinking 40-proof liquor, so it's best to pour ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/28/polish-kielbasa-and-vodka/ Gdynia has a big harbor that works 24/7 ... we should know because we heard from the window of Pani Helena's flat all the trucks and cranes and ship's horns and deisel locomotives operating night & day. The harbor has lots of docks for big container ships, with massive cranes cayside ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/26/gdynia-harbor-and-the-wharf/ Life can be serious. Sometimes we make it more serious than it is. Sometimes overly serious than it ever should be. Before this happens, we should make funny faces.   Make funny fish faces ...     before life passes you by. http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/26/waking-up-fishfaced/ Gdynia is an industrial port town that happens also to be a beach community. During Communist times, I suppose there were guards posted in the life-guard towers instead of lifeguards, ready to shoot any bathers crossing the red bouys as they swim to freedom across the Baltic Sea to Sweden. Asia ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/25/gdynias-beach-scene/ Asia was prescient enough to think about, and then execute, the purchase of a new computer while in Poland. Fact: prices in Poland for most products are cheaper, vis-a-vis currency conversion, than other Euro countries. Fact. So, Asia got herself an HP state-of-this-year computer that is blisteringly fast, has lots of ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/25/the-four-computer-couple/ So we found the most comfortable route back from the Baltic Sea: Gdynia – Warsaw by day train, then Warsaw – Prague by sleeper train. Ahhhh, WHAT CIVILIZATION !!!! We arrived in Hlavni Nadrazi at 6:51 this morning to a stormy, cool Prague morning. This was perfect, actually, after nearly two ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/24/back-in-prague/ Asia's mom has a birthday on Tuesday, so we came over for a lunch-time celebration today. Asia's dad is the family cook, and his food is fantastic. He's careful with his recipes and demanding of his food products. The other day we had fish & chips, and the fish was ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/17/birthday-lunch-at-the-szusteks/ Asia & I went swimming in the Baltic for the first time this week. Why not before? Too hot during the day. So we decided to wait for early evening. We got to the beach at 6:30 or so, expecting fewer people than actually lined the beach and were yet splish-splashing ... http://www.bibliogrind.com/2010/07/17/seaside-at-gdynia/