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...surprise, like finding a spider in your sandal. Savoring summer is a habit tattooed from childhood, along with sunburn scars and callused heels and memories of original sins, a first beer smuggled behind the grandstand, cigarettes sneaked in the woods, curfews broken because it's too hot to sleep. The flip side of summer freedom is anarchy, the structures of school and work melted into casual Fridays and long weekends spent playing on grass now baked to beige by drought, if it has not been drowned by this summer's biblical floods...
...London was how my parents schlepped my sister and me on various weekend jaunts around the country and into the European continent. Although the two of us were fairly willing travelers, especially for the more exotic trips, we often complained that we were forced to relinquish our precious weekend sleep week after week to see one more medieval this or ancient that...
...wiser, I’ve had a change of heart and realized that this “torturous” routine is one I don’t mind inflicting on myself. Thanks to Harvard and, perhaps more specifically, The Crimson, I’ve also learned that sleep is not the most necessary aspect of life. The combination of these two timely discoveries resulted in my judiciously planning out weekend events with friends for each of the eight weeks we spent in London...
...morning of our Belgium trip, my friend Liz and I boarded the first Eurostar train out of Waterloo International Station, blurry eyed from lack of sleep but excited for the weekend to come (worthy of its own postcard). As we waited for our train to pull out from the station, I turned to her and said, “You know what? Europeans are so lucky and I don’t even know if they realize how lucky they are. They can just hop onto a train and go to Paris for Bastille Day or Venice for Carnival without...
...especially from Britain, trailed at a distance by Italy, the U.S. and France. "Most problems are caused by foreigners who come here on cheap flights to take as many drugs as they can find," says Guy Boels, chairman of VLOS, an association of Dutch magic mushrooms retailers. "They hardly sleep, they drink alcohol and smoke pot as much as they can and then take a paddo on top of that...