Performance at Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Ireland to Spain to Romania

Apr 4, 2018

Over the past couple of weeks we’ve gone from Ireland to Spain to ultimately settle in Romania which will be our home for April-May of 2018. I’d been curious in Romania for some time. In 2000 when I wandered around Europe, Tara, with whom I was travelling wanted to go to Transylvania. We called my brother from another mother, Wiktor, in Poland. He thought, since we were two, young, mostly monolingual Americans (I think Tara spoke some French) without the knowledege of who to bribe and when, that we might be better off wandering to Croatia where he could link us up with some friends of his. This time around Rachel and I have done a fair amount of travelling and Romania has changed, a lot, in the past 20 years but more on that later, now back to Ireland.

Mourne Mountains

Mar 3, 2018

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Eventually finding our way

Feb 2, 2018

Slieve League

We’ve had a couple nice days recently so we ventured out for some hikes. On Tuesday we wandered to Slieve League on the North Western coast of Ireland and on Wednesday to Slieve Bearnagh in the North East. In both cases we started on an adventure, not where we expected to be. Signage and/or google maps is sometimes not pointing in the right direction or not as evident as one would hope to stay on the path you expect to be.

Dun na ri Forest and Glendalough Monastic Site

Feb 2, 2018

Hiking around Ireland

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Around Warsaw

Dec 12, 2017

Some of our wandering around Warsaw in 2017.

Performance at Museum of the History of Polish Jews

Dec 12, 2017

A post shared by Tony Schmidt (@antschmidt) on Dec 15, 2017 at 3:25pm PST This was an incredible performance of Ksenofonia. Symphonia dia Innego (by Miłosz Pękala/Barthomiej Wasic) You can see the entire performance with dancers here

After 16 years, back in Prague!

Nov 11, 2017

I first wandered to Prague in 1998. It was my first international trip. My friend, Trisha, was going to Europe with her sister, Tara, and were going to visit our mutual friend and my Polish host brother, Wiktor. Contrary to my insisting it wasn’t possible, Trisha convinced me I was going. I happen to have large feet. This was helpful because how the hell was a poor college student like myself at that time going to muster the money to make it happen.

Fluttering Around Prague

Nov 11, 2017

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At the John Lennon Wall in Prague

Nov 11, 2017

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Security offered by financial industry

Oct 10, 2017

Why is it I have better security options for my twitter than my @transunion account? Small character limit on pw, no 2fa... smh — tonyschmidt (@tonyschmidt) October 10, 2017