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2025 Year in Review

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With apologies to Robb Knight, from whomst I stole the format.

General

Continuing and, indeed, accelerating the trend of the previous year, 2025 was marked by a significant amount of travel. Short trips, long trips. At times it felt like I was gone more than I was home, although the statistics don’t bear that out.

My blog is read almost exclusively by the friends who I directly link to it (thank you!) although it looks like one sentence on each place in Europe that I’ve been broke containment, for an extremely small definition of “broke containment.”

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One sentence on each place in Europe that I’ve been, in order of preference.

🇳🇴 Oslo, Norway

Perfection.

🇳🇴 Kristiansand, Norway

Feels like walking through a storybook about mice that run a bookstore.

🇩🇪 Berlin, Germany

I will spend the rest of my life angry that nowhere in the US has public transit this good.

🇱🇹 Klaipeda, Lithuania

Purchased a book of soviet propaganda art from a woman who spoke almost no English, 10/10, no notes.

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