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May 19-29, 2006OK, gonna skip ahead a bit because I haven't had time to write any other trips up. So little time, in fact, that my sister Beka wrote this up (thanks!), enjoy:I love Canada even more! Anyway, Warren, Travis, and I left for Egypt fairly well researched but still unsure of what to expect. We bought some beer for the train, in preparation for visiting a Muslim country where alcohol

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March 31 - April 2 A pretty loosely planned laid back trip so I'll just write a simple blog entry too (by simple I mean no pictures, and the real reason for that is I'm just a bit lazy and don't have them at work anymore). Warren, Nate and I went to Prague for weekend to hits some clubs, see a bone church in Kutna Hora and get some cheap food and drinks. Warren and I have already been to Prague

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May 3, 2006I've been going through a lot as usual so this is simply the latest and what I can remember right now.Right this second I'm listening to a pretty good drum and bass radio mix that came as a part of a larger DnB torrent. The weather has been great lately and high-energy drum and bass is perfect. I've got Roni Size in the playlist next. His classic CD 'New Forms' was actually my last

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March 24-26, 2006Taking it way back now that I have a few spare seconds. All the way back to March 24-26 and a trip to Barcelona with Warren, Kevin, Ty, Tommy, Lindsey, Alain, Ryan, and Mak. If I remember correctly it still wasn't terribly warm at home so it was sweet to go south to coastal city (with a frisbee!) and soak up the sun.We left on a night train Friday night and woke up 13 hours or so

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March 10-13, 2006I booked this trip about six months ago because I was really interested in Portugal all of the sudden, and it lived up to my expectations. On Friday Kevin, Warren, Mike, Rebeca, Victor, Keegan, Preston and I left work early to go to Basel and then flew on to Lisbon. Originally Kevin, Mike, Warren, Nate and I had booked this trip but Nate had to stay back for the last game of the

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February 17-21, 2006What can I say? I got to go to the winter olympics in Torino and spend a day in Venice for Carneval beforehand. My writing skills (or even speaking skills, for that matter) are nowhere near good enough to describe this trip. I'll do my best. This trip was bits and pieces with different people, but starting off from Baden was Lindsey, Tyler, Kevin, Vance, Bernard, Tommy,

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March 10, 2003It's been a while for one of these, way too long. I still need to write up my Venice-Olympic blog post too, I'll get to it.Last night I went with Jude (praktikant from London) to Radio Soulwax presents Nite Versions Live: 2ManyDJs & Special Guests. I'm using the long official title for some reason, basically we went to see 2ManyDJs, a pair of Belgians who play a lot of good music

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Feb. 2-5, 2006Last weekend I went to Oslo, Norway, the 14th country I've been to in Europe (still lots to go!) I went to visit my Mom's friend Pat and her family. They've been visiting Canada for as long as I can remember and always encouraging us to come see them in Norway. Seeing as Switzerland is a lot closer to Norway than Canada, it was the perfect opportunity to take them up on their offer

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January 28-29, 2006Quick and easy soccer weekend to Northern Italy to see an epic soccer match between AC Milan and Sampdoria...or at least we hoped. Devon, Warren, Naveen, Huw, Richard, Tommy, Lindsey, Vance, Jacqui, Mike and myself were in for this one.We decided to do this and bought tickets about 3 weeks early. The first issue came up when the league or the club or whoever decided the game

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January 21, 2006Switzerland gets a lot of hip hop shows, I love it. The latest was Lyrics Born, a member of the Quannum label who has been around since the start of the Solesides era. Solesides was put together by DJ Shadow and Jeff Chang in Bay-area California and originally included Chief Xcel, Lyrics Born (aka Asia Born), Lateef the Truthspeaker and Gift of Gab. Lateef and Xcel collaborated as

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January 7, 2006Last Saturday a few of us went on a hike near Brünig, which is a mountain town east and up from the eastern of Interlaken's main lakes, Lake Brienz. Rob and his girlfriend had a car so they were nice to drive us up to Brünig. The plan was to take a train from Brünig to that start of the trail and then walk back to Brünig, which made sense. We were really early for the train so we

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January 9, 2006Why not, a post about a couple great books. I was going to do this last night, when the idea came to me when I couldn't get to sleep but I didn't feel like fooling around with the pictures at home.First book: The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. I haven't read it since grade 8 I think but I remember it as one of my favorite books. It is great story tracing through the struggles and

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January 5, 2006A quick update to start off the new year. I went into A&B Sound over Christmas and bought a lot of stuff so I'm happy. I got 'Funeral' by the Arcade Fire, and the liner notes are in the form of a funeral bulletin! The artwork and design are great as well. Another highlight was the 'In Tune & On Time' live DVD by DJ Shadow. Its an incredible live set where he layers 2 or more of his

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July 2-5 & 8I know it was many months ago but I'm writing about this Festival because I think a lot of people have the wrong idea, and it was so amazing that I'm trying to spread the word.It is a 2 week festival with 3 big concerts every night plus countless street performances and side stages going all day everyday. It is not an outdoor camping festival like Greenfield was either. Montreux is an

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Dec. 14, 2005OK, here is where my blog gets a bit weird. Not a post about travel, not a post about music but just general ideas about me and sports. This is a topic I've had serious thoughts about from time to time and I figured now was a good time to write them down.The conclusion I've come to is that I don't really have fun playing sports. I play them not to fill the need I have for fun but to

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November 29, 2005What is going on with hip-hop? There have been no big releases at all recently and the next little while looks pretty much the same. Why? I don't understand it. Granted, the Roots did release a pair of greatest hits CDs recently (great mix of classics, rare stuff, and alternate versions, I can't wait to read Questlove's liner notes), but that still doesn't fill my need for the

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November 5-6, 2005OK, maybe I will write up a few of the older trips. I'm writing about Budapest because it was a really great city and I think it is very under-rated. You don't hear too much about it but everyone who has been there has loved it.Nate, Lindsey, Richard and I caught an early flight on Saturday morning on Swiss Airlines. I was mad at myself for falling asleep before they passed

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November 15, 2005#1 will be a big one: 6.5 months worth of what I've been listening to. Don't worry, I'll keep it brief.Since I've been here I've started listening to so much new stuff and gotten better acquainted with old albums and groups. The key is having 8 hours a day at work to listen. I work in an office full of praktikants and I rarely need to talk to my boss so that means pretty much the

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June 24-26, 2005This is taking it way back to the weekend of June 24-26, the week after my sister Beka arrived for a five-week visit. Beka, Simon, Jay, Devon, Richard, Ed, Jacqui, Lindsey, Tommy, Vance, Evan, Shane, Adrienn, Ron and I went down to Interlaken in central Switzerland for a weekend of rock. It was a true rock festival, outdoor camping at an airfield and outdoor stages.Friday night:

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Alright, I've been here 6.5 months now and I've finally decided to start a blog to keep track of some things. I'll definitely post about my travels and link to all of my pictures, but I'll also keep everybody up to date with what I'm listening to because that is something I can always talk about. Here is a list of most of the trips I've been on so far that I probably won't write up:ViennaCinque

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