Germany Doesn't Suck

Has anyone made the switch from paper books to books on Kindle?
I’ve recently found out that Kindle exists and that there’s even an Ipod Touch App for it, so I downloaded it last week. This morning, I found a free sample of an e-book that interested me, downloaded it to my device, started reading it [...]

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Nominations for the Academy Awards are out. Best Picture is the one that I follow and here are the films up for it:
“Avatar”
“The Hurt Locker”
“The Blind Side”
“District 9″
“An Education”
“Inglourious Basterds”
“Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ By Sapphire”
“A Serious Man”
“Up”
“Up in the Air.”
Which ones have you seen and do you agree that they should be [...]

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(gotta love that Wordpress App)
All times CEST (Germany).
04:02 – SQ973 has the smoothest takeoff I have ever experienced. Aisle seat 39D. Front wheels lifted off at 267 kph.
04:10 – headphones handed out.
4:18 – I turn on the on demand entertainment system anmd find out that the booklet is different than what’s on the screen, so [...]

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at an airport hotel in tropical warm weather as planes are landing
- who are these people
- why did they choose Thailand?
- is it their first time here?
- will they like this country?
- will they visit other countries?
- will they like Bangkok as much as I do?
- will they return?
- how old are they?
- so [...]

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I’ll be flying back to Bangkok today for a few days. A last blast of vibrant city life will be quite nice before returning to SleepyColdCountry.

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Has anyone heard/read predictions from people in-the-know about how much further the Euro is going to fall to the US$? It’s fallen quite a bit in the last month.
BBC is blaming it on the Greeks and their creative accounting this time, but it sounds like an attempt at justification to avoid panic. The Euro [...]

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2010
- June/July – USA (PA, NYC & CA)
- Dec/Jan 2011- central & northern Vietnam
2011
- A week in France by car
- Cambodia?
2012
- London (Olympics)
- More Cambodia?
2013
- Egypt (most likely not in the summer)
- Insert warm Asian country here

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and a video with a riddle.

Finally, the video. I laughed when I saw this group coming towards me and pulled over to take it. What about the video made me take it and laugh? Winner gets a postcard.

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after yesterday’s post whether I would rent a bike for a week or not?
I went to a few places to inquire about a one day rental and got prices like 200 & 300 THB so I decided to visit the guy I walked past yesterday and he had one left for his 150 THB/day [...]

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Tomorrow I had planned on taking a bus up to the lower part of the mainland (about 90 minutes), but have changed my mind due to a lack of inexpensive hotels there. The only ones I have been able to find (both before I left Europe and also this morning) have been at least triple [...]

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After spending just about 3 weeks in Vietnam, it’s quite odd being back in Thailand.
Horns in VN are just about connected to starter motors, whereas in Thailand they are used only when needed. Also, there are tons more tourists here than in VN (other than Saigon).
There are also a lot more Germans here than there [...]

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Having fun at the beach.
Took a water trip and did some snorkeling and met lots of fun people to hang out with two days ago.
Rented a motorbike yesterday, but got a flat tire at 15:00. Luckily I was a block from the hotel and walked it back. The fixit guy didn’t have time to buy [...]

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- Bus trip from Central Highlands (Da Lat) to South Central Coast was absolutely stunning. Started at 1475 meters (4800 feet) above sea level and the first three hours were through the mountains. Plush green mtns, waterfalls, etc (no snow at this latitude);
- Da Lat was nice, but cold at night (15C). I hadn’t planned [...]

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Bangkok is the usual starting and ending point for my trips to Asia. It started off due to the fact that it is (or perhaps ‘used to be’ nowadays) the cheapest place in SE Asia to fly to from the area I live in. However, both this and last year I have traveled on frequent [...]

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