Ann and I took a trip to Leiden this weekend where we were shown around by our friend Ove Kahler. Leiden is home to the largest university in the Netherlands, and has a beautiful old city center. While we were there we saw the Saturday market, Dragon boat races, and Read more…
One of the events on our program was a visit with a Russian family for dinner. There were only six families, so we had to visit in groups. My group of four intrepid RSMers traveled to the second to last stop on the red line (don’t ask me any names, Read more…
My MBA group is putting up all our pictures from Russia on an account at Flickr. Check it out. http://www.flickr.com/photos/emba06
I was on my way to the Red Square for the first time. It’s a straight 2.2 kilometer shot down the street from the hotel. I was walking there with a group of my MBA classmates on our second day in Moscow. As we walked down the side of this Read more…
I was sitting in the lobby of the Imperium casino in Moscow, waiting for the complimentary car service for losers, when I noticed something peculiar. I was sitting in front of a row of connected slot machines all with a “Battleship†theme. Now, having grown up with Battleship, this aroused Read more…
I had to do it. I’ve been gambling in every country that I have been to where it’s legal, so I just had to check out a Russian casino. The concierge recommended the Golden Palace and called me a cab. He told me it would be 300 rubles. The taxi Read more…
I flew into Sheremetyevo airport with about thirteen fellow RSM students. We were waved through immigration by a typically stone-faced official woman, and then I was set loose onto Russian soil. Immediately your brain starts looking for the differences. Everything is written in Cyrillic. Are the ads different from ads Read more…
Ann and I, our friend Ian, and two of our colleages (Fleur and Stefan), participated in the Jameson Pub Quiz at O’ Casey’s Irish Pub in Den Haag last night. Generally, I like trivia games. The first challenge, always the toughest, was coming up with a team name. Since all Read more…
Ann and I saw Dralion, one of the newer shows of Cirque du Soleil, this weekend in Rotterdam. This is the third Cirque du Soleil show we’ve seen (O and Varkai being the other two). As with the others, it’s a fantastic display of creativity and ingenuity of what can Read more…