a day at the pool is a day well spent

thank god there is a pool here. it is warm like hell. there are all kinds of bugs annoying us all the time but thank god there is a pool...

gabor (78kg) vs. fiorentina (1.2kg)

no comment necessary ... other than thanks ulli for the pictures :-)

vacanze

The last couple of weeks have been nice – have been enjoying the summer a lot. Visited Spain for the Benicassim Festival, went to Sicily for a wedding. In between these wonderful couple of days work has been like hell though. Not the traveling part – that part I like (surprise!) but the workload being so high for so many months without a proper break has affected me more than I thought it would. And so I am looking forward to the next 3 weeks with even more excitement than usual. Not that I would lie on the beach for 3 weeks – I chose a rather active way of relaxing instead. One week in Tuscany and two weeks in Rome. In between weekends all around the place. The two weeks in Rome I enrolled to a superintensive Italian course. Let’s see if it can make me say grazie instead of gracias when I buy my next gelato tomorrow!

Boarding the night train in Frankfurt to Milano after a couple of hectic hours packing I am sure I have too much clothes with me – business as usual ;)

In the compartment there were two Italians, I guess they were sisters as they looked much alike, and a Dutch girl who was desperate to talk after having spent more than 5 hours alone reading a book having boarded the train in Amsterdam. I wonder how much of the five hours she has spent consciously though as a hint of a certain Amsterdam smell welcomed me when I opened the compartment door.

Before going to sleep in the train I have my first proper Italian discussion with another couple who are going to Milan. She speaks German, he speaks Italian only. Guess which one of them was talking to me. So now I know that Tuscany is expensive (caro) but you can eat very well (mangiare). When he says “mangiare” – he points to his belly with the side of his flat hand and smiles. I guess the next couple of days will be nice!!!

my ipod nano is not broken - it just became a shuffle

I managed to drop my ipod after almost 4 years of incident-free operations. the screen is broken but it still plays my FIB-The-Killers-Playlist.

I don't like the new ipod nano design so I don't know what to do. Oh well, there are rumors of a new ipod nano with a camera. maybe the design will change too. It's time to wait ...

My blog is not dead just resting

to be continued ...