Brian Risk's Blog

The past few days I’ve been staying in a hostel in London and drinking many pints and coffee. Finally we visited part of London which really makes is London. Picadilly Circus is great, but it’s like a watered down Times Square. Camden is awesome, but it’s like Five Points in Atlanta. Westminster Abbey…. there’s nothing [...]

A lot of people (namely Chuck and Meredith) have asked what the Catania apartment looks like. Here’s a walking tour. You enter an walk down a squeezably narrow hallway. Which comes to Chris’s room. You turn right are presented with a weird, Escherian stair. You look down the stairway to see where your feet will [...]

This poor girl–not only has she embarrassed herself by bowling in the improper lane, but her lacy unmentionables have taken this as the moment to fall down. A perfect moment capture by a genius artist! Chris bowling Me bowling Richard bowling It appears there is a sanitation strike as this trash from the market should [...]

A lot of taverns around here have themes. We ended up stopping at a Communist-themed bar (don’t tell McCarthy) , and rather than being filled with Hippies, it seemed to be the more family oriented spot we would visit. Richard and I are in a beer mood and, perhaps out of laziness, Chris suggests that [...]

The trip, despite being about 18 hours of travel, went well. The view from the north-facing passenger window on my trans-Atlantic flight was breath taking. Cities looked like intricate jeweled clusters; if they had been art I would have felt the designs were works of genius. Three hours into the flight I noticed the Aurora [...]