The Syndicate

At the beach.

I remember a game where I was mafia and I killed a guy who was suspecting me. I got lynched for that in the next day and didn't even understand why until after the game was over. I was such a noob.

Nowadays, I'd see it coming in the previous day, do it anyway and plan my posts in preparation for the inevitable WIFOM defense I'd have to use.

Haven't played real life mafia since 2005. When I played it like 10 times in a row in one night.

Then I didn't play it again until 2014, when I found out it was possible to play mafia on the internet.

Haven't been to USA. Or to any country in the Americas other than my own, for that matter (unless you count Aruba as a country). It's one of the places I'd like to visit.

Ricochet wrote:I had cheese and wine one evening sitting on the edge of the island on the Seine. But I did it alone, because that's the kind of person I am.

I'm not a gourmand in my travel. Those Belgian beers, on the other hand, hot damn.

linki @ fingersplints: Brits and Germans easily fight over beach spots in Portugal, from what I could tell. I think I remember two young British girls on the same beach we went to, but they seemed depressed at life and after too much sun they used to go oh heavens no and retreat back to the hotel.

I suppose those girls were exposed to more sunlight during that moment in Portugal than what they do in a full year in UK.

Not kidding. When I came back to Brazil one of the first things I noticed was the sunlight, because I didn't remember it to be possible for sun to shine so much.

I do miss scampi with chips, though. It's a very rare example of good British savoury food.

One thing that's really great about UK food is the sweets. God, they don't make sweets like that in Brazil. I brought like 5 boxes of biscuits in my luggage.

But savoury food? I'll pass. I gained like 2 pounds in half a year after I came back to Brazil because I couldn't stop eating.

I think the places I liked the most were the ones with the best food. Italy was one. Prague was another. Belgium was heaven-like in terms of food. Paris had some pretty good food too.

I spent most of my year in Europe living in UK, and UK's cuisine is easily the worst in the world. So going to other countries was really refreshing since I got to eat great food.

UK has some pretty great places to visit, though. I went to London like 4 times and I'd go there again.

I wanna go to Portugal.

JaggedJimmyJay wrote:I liked Paris a lot. My only beef was the severely overcrowded metro system.

My favorite cities in Europe so far have been Cambridge, Edinburgh, and Amsterdam. I'll probably be going to Vienna next month. Can't wait.

Paris's metro was terrible.

Paris is like a bunch of beautiful places filled with a lot of little annoying things that make me think I wouldn't like to live there.

But there sure are A LOT of beautiful places.

My favorite time was when me and my friends had a picnic with cheese and wine sitting in front of the Eiffel Tower. Made me feel a lot more rich than I actually am (ignoring the fact that we were doing a picnic cuz nobody had money to actually climb the tower).

Ricochet wrote: Dunno why but I'm not keen to visit Venice.

Venice is a one day-only thing. I got some of my best photos there. But you can see the entire city in one day and it's not a place you'd want to live in. It's like the city itself is more of a tourist attraction than an actual city.

I recommend you visiting it if you have the chance, though. It's really beautiful.

Florence is pure amazing. Loved it. I liked Rome as much as Florence, though.

Another one I loved in Europe was Prague.

Paris is kind of overrated though, imo. It's cool, but I don't see why people treat it like the best one.

MovingPictures07 wrote:Wow. I'm going to get right on that, MM, and ask my PhD advisor for some time off so I can go to Zurich and Paris. :P

We'll see his response.

While you're in the way you should go to Italy too. The whole country is awesome.
But speaking about PhD, you could use that to go abroad. Try to get a sponsorhip to go study in some foreign university. That's how I got to travel to Europe myself.

No you look like a circus ringleader.

I love how so many people look nerdy in this place.

Time to post my own nerdy face:
Myself in Zurich one year ago.