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Friday, May 25, 2012

Natalie Bowlus

So long, for now

This column is terribly challenging to write. It’s my last of the semester and, what with my brutal rejection from Lonely Planet (What gives? Don’t they think I’m qualified to write about Eastern Euro…

Ignorance finally gets the better of our protagonist

To say that I have visited Slovenia is, in the most charitable terms possible, a pretty big stretch. If one were being less forgiving, one might say that my 36-hour stint in the country represented th…

Transylvanian travels

Transylvania: not just for transsexual transvestites. That’s not the Romanian government’s official tourist slogan, but I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who thinks it should be.

If the Hun…

Culturally sensitive conquistadors of the old world

The first real trip I took last fall (excluding the obvious one that initially brought me across the Atlantic) was to Eger, a small town about three hours from Budapest by commuter train. To the exten…

The best Budapest beer and bites

Traditionally, any travel column that fails to attempt some gross generalization of the “national cuisine” and offers no worthless suggestions as to where you might go yourself to partake of would be …

Budapest or bust

Considering my putative subject matter for the coming semester, it seems appropriate that I am writing this column while hurtling down the New Jersey Turnpike, wending my way inevitably towards Swarth…