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Welcome to the Kelinci Series, a photographic, travelling, essay featuring a free-loading miscreant known as Kelinci. Not one to be pinned down in an area for too long, we get sporadic updates and emails about his travels.  In this series we find Kelinci in Vienna, Austria.

Are we dreaming idly of what it must’ve been like in the 13th century to have the Mongols knocking on your door? No, perhaps instead we are daydreaming of stuffing our faces with Soviet Era Tea sandwiches at Trzesniewski. Or rather we would spend a lazy afternoon wandering the gardens at the Schönbrunn Palace. Seeing how we like to pig out, we could take a few double-scoops of some Vienna ice cream at Tichy.

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The last time we caught up with our royal-roaming-raging-rallier was over in Venice, but from these recent pics it appears that Mr. Kelinci has moved over to the the North-Western hemisphere, in particular the Caribbean, on a sunny, beautiful, and historically rich island known as Puerto Rico. In case you are just joining us, the Kelinci Series is a photo-journey around the world featuring a troublemaker only known as Kelinci. He has a penchant for snow bunnies, and of course beaches.

The current Commonwealth of Puerto Rico has a long history first as indigenous groups inhabited the 3450 square mile island for centuries; then to the ownership by the Spaniards, until America rested ownership of the strategic asset in the Spanish-American War of 1898. Here’s a nice chronological link of events in Puerto-Rico leading up to those events in 1898. Puerto Rico has even received immigrants from Ireland, France, Scotland, along with slave imports from various other regions of Africa.

Puerto-Rico is the smallest island within the group of Greater Antilles, yet she receives more than a million tourists each year; conversely a massive exodus of workers have come to U.S. cities such as New York (which has the largest U.S. Puerto-Rican population). Yet almost 4 million people inhabit Puerto Rico making it one of the most densely populated islands in the world.  Culturally the island spreads its interesting diversity via Criollo/Creole expressions in food, music, and art.

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The last time we caught up with Kelinci he was shuffling through Switzerland — today we catch up with our venturesome sightseer in Venice. Per chance this is your first time meeting Kelinci, he is an intrepid nomad who meanders at will around the world, taking in the sights and sending us updates.

It has been said Venice is not a museum, but a constant creation. The city of Venice derives its name from an ancient tribe called Veneti that inhabited the area during Roman times. The city is most undoubtedly known for its series of canals, as the city itself is built across 117 islands along the Adriatic Sea in Northern Italy. Hence earning the nicknames “City of Canals”, “City of Bridges”, and “The Floating City”.

Aside from its appeal being named one of Europe’s most romantic cities – it has contributed to various facets of culture including music, cuisine, interior design, fashion, and architecture

Sicuro viaggi!

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After some hiatus, we catch up with Kelinci, our roving, pointy-eared miscreant – yet again in Switzerland. For those of you who are just tuning in, we have an on-going running feature properly titled : Kelinci Series. A photo essay about a smokin’, traveling rabbit that has a penchant for snow bunnies, exotic beaches, and sending me updates of his rabble-rousin’ around the world. Although this time he doesn’t appear surrounded by layers of snow, he has taken quite a fondness to the relaxing countryside.

Here we see him catching some fresh air in the rural area between Luzern and Interlaken.

I wonder if he’s been getting inebriated off of some Rugenbrau

Above we see Kelinci situated by Lake Zurich – which incidentally has some very clean, pure water that gets filtered and fed into the city of Zurich’s water system. Even though the lake is almost 2 miles across and 25 miles in length, it has still frozen many times over the past several centuries – the last time being in 1963.

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