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You turn on the TV to watch the first game of the World Cup. The first person you see is…
1 Comment Published by Ryan June 29th, 2006 in Travel, Media.It’s the opening match of the 2006 FIFA World Cup–Germany vs. Costa Rica. ESPN’s broadcast of the first of 64 games kicks off with a standard animated opening, switches to a wide shot of the fans in Munich’s Allianz Arena, and then cuts directly to a shot of… me. Smack-dab in the center […]
Europe is generally cleaner than America, with one notable exception
0 Comments Published by Ryan June 24th, 2006 in Travel, Health.Compared to most American metropolitan areas, many of the cities we visited in Western Europe (e.g. Munich, Brussels, Zurich (pictured)) don’t merely look cleaner–the air quality is also leaps and bounds better than what we breathe here in the States (especially New York). For an asthmatic bastard like me, this makes all the difference […]
