Side Stories 2012 – Ricardopedia

In the Company of Heroes

We have arrived at the grand finale of the Europe 2012 stories. This series is going out with a bang and a very special story…

After a bit of a break, I am now back to writing. I am closing in on the end of this series of stories from…

Hostel breakfasts are usually very basic and might not be worth the extra euro per night you pay for them. A bowl of cereal or…

On my second day in Valencia, Spain, I decided I would spend much of the day at the beach. A short ride on the metro…

When you live in a city like Boulder, your definition of weird is forever changed, to the point where there's very little a person can…

Although there were a few hiccups, I think this year London pulled off a very solid Summer Olympics. But it wasn't always looking that way.…

* Just as a note, this post would have gone up sooner, but Blogger inexplicably deleted the entire thing so I had to rewrite the…

Sometimes things just don't live up to the hype surrounding them. If there's one thing Florence, Italy, is famous for, it is the Renaissance. If…

A very brief one for today's story. After checking into my hostel in Prague (in the Czech Republic), I proceeded to take a walk around…

A few weeks into my Europe trip, while I was in Spain, I developed a tradition of taking a night walk around the town I…