Back in Denmark after almost 3 weeks in Thailand. We landed in Copenhagen on Friday, de-stressed and re-charged. Ready to seize everyday life and make it wonderful. I’ve posted some of our travel pictures on my 23 account. I won’t really bother to go into too many details about our trip. We spend a few [...]
Coming home from Finland, I had 18 hours in Copenhagen to repack and reorganize before setting off for Pisa with my mother, my brother and sister, my stepfather and his whole family. Coming from the erratic and rainy Scandinavian summer weather, it was great to see some stable sunshine, hang out by the pool, read [...]
The place where I quite want to be. If it wasn’t for the mosquitoes. With just a short stop at home to repack my gear in the early hours of Saturday morning, I sped off to spend a week in Finland with my father and aunt visiting my uncle Taff who moved up there last [...]
Rainy grey Seattle. Yet always the magical thrill of seeing the hint of mountains in the distance. Staying with Stefan and Karen Lise: Disappointment at the Space Needle. They should have kept it orange. Walking through Pike Place Market. The inevitable curiosa shops, the throwing fish market. The convinced Left Bank Books where fierce hope [...]
More notes from my trip abroad: Rainy grey Vancouver. Yet always the magical thrill of seeing the hint of mountains in the distance. Meeting up with James, Stefan and Karen Lise – sharing our secrets in Danish to be drowned out by the multi-cultural roar of the city. The “strip” of Granville Street in downtown [...]
I’ve just arrived back in Copenhagen after two weeks on the west coast of North America: San Francisco, Vancouver and Seattle. I barely managed to blog while I was there, simply because I was so busy taking it all in. Luckily, taking it in for me also means taking down some notes once in a [...]
I just came back from 4 days in Norway late last night, having only two days to prepare for my trip to California. Going to Norway is like entering a big Danish thesaurus. All the words are recognizable and usable in Danish, they’re just not that common. Here’s a list of some of the Norwegian [...]
I’ve bought or were given several pins during my tour of the British Isles. I got the KDE pin at the aKademy, and it sums up the atmosphere at the conference quite well: Even the man sitting at the counter in the hostel got free Kubuntu CDs to showcase KDE, that passion and outgoing interest [...]
One of the frustrations with being on the road doing my fieldwork is that I can’t be on-line often enough to keep a solid presence in the Ubuntu community or even on my blog. The birthday consumption of my bottle of Danish herb snaps on my last night at the aKademy resulted in seven KDE [...]
So today I turn 26. With the bare minimum of fanfare, being in the field in Dublin. But even with little fanfare, it is always nice to get the digital birthday greetings from home on a day like this. Thank you for the thoughts. I hope you’re all taking good care of yourselves wherever you [...]