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Scandinavian Airlines has a fall-and-winter sale for flights from DC to Copenhagen, Stockholm, Oslo, Amsterdam, and more. Flights start at $279 each way (some destinations require a connection). Taxes and fees are approximately $80, meaning you can fly direct to Copenhagen, home of the Tivoli Gardens, Lars von Trier, and the world’s best restaurant, Noma , for around $640 round trip. Flights to Paris, Moscow, and Milan are also currently on sale, starting at $299.
If you prefer hot wings to herring and you’d rather have a Corona than a Carlsberg, fear not. Plenty of domestic deals are available too, valid through Labor Day and beyond. Fly.com has flights from Reagan and BWI to San Francisco, Los Angeles, Portland, Vegas, New Orleans, and more for $50 to $109 each way. So you can fly to the Golden Gate Bridge and back for $212 round trip, which is less than a peak return Amtrak ticket from New York City.
Beyond super-cheap airfares, we recently learned that Jesse Williams (a.k.a. Dr. Jackson Avery on Grey’s Anatomy, a.k.a. the Pretty One) will be the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation’s second guest artist this September, starring in two historically based performances on September 25 ( tickets are $15). Before he was an actor, Williams taught American studies and African studies at a Philadelphia high school, so education and history are apparently near and dear to his heart.
A Morning on the Trans-Siberian Railway
Welcome guest blogger, JTrek, and thank you for this personal look at a trip on the Trans-Siberian.
Sleep isn’t coming. My left earplug’s come out again, and I’m putting both of them away. While I try to rearrange the covers on my upper bunk with my feet, I shove my pillow to one side to see out the compartment window a little better. At first I think we’re going through a tunnel, but then realize the sun still hasn’t risen. I fumble for my pants, and pull the cell phone out of my pocket to check the time. 3:37am. Maybe. We’d crossed one time zone yesterday morning and then yet another in the afternoon, and figuring out whether we’d done it again would have taken effort. My phone hadn’t automatically updated its clock since Australia, so I’d just set it to Moscow time. I realize water is in order, reach down for my nalgene knock-off and drink.
Two hours later, I wake up again, still not knowing what time it really is. I take a quick survey of the compartment. Across from me in the upper bunk, the 26-year-old Russian father is asleep, shirtless without any covers, and making an odd squeaking noise with his mouth I’d only heard one or two people pull off, conscious or unconscious. His 22-year-old wife is asleep on the bunk below him, as was their 3-year-old son, who is buck naked. Across from them on the bunk below mine is the new guy, fully clothed, no covers, asleep on his face. He looks like just like stereotypical drunk out of a Charlie Chaplin movie. I can no longer smell him on account of having been in the cabin far longer than the 5 minutes it takes for the human nose to ignore existing smells. Same with the smoked omul fish. propped open by toothpicks on the table for the last three days, though we might have eaten all those last night. The fish, not the toothpicks. Actually, after the amount of vodka consumed by all present, I can only really speak for myself on that point.
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