Back in Vancouver

A final batch of pictures from Europe.

Done in Europe now. Spent a while in Edmonton getting M and J married, and then houseboating in the BC interior. All good fun, and probably a suitable reintroduction to North America, since we got to really sample Albertan culture. Now I'm tooling around Vancouver getting my life sorted out again.

Denmark

Denmark is enjoying one of the periods that gives it a good name, just in time for my arrival luckily enough. Its been about 25 during the days and sunny. Its funny how it gets an almost Meditterranean atmosphere at this time. I've been down to the beach and around town a bit. Its been fun. A pile of K's hooligan friends visited Mormor yesterday, but they were all very civil and polite and for some reason they seem to quite enjoy the visits, as does she secretly.

Heidelberg seems like an amazing place to study. It suits J perfectly I think. Its full of germanic junk for him to like, cheapish beer, and cozy restaurants. The train down there from Brussels followed the Rhine along its most romantic stretch... the part that we did on the tour, which was wicked to see again but at high speed this time.

I'm off to London ever so briefly tomorrow. Thankfully Denmark has aclamatyzed me to the price levels.

This is the end..

I'm done with Brussels. My internship is officially over, and the interns are all leaving in droves. I haven't written much lately because I haven't done anything overtly exciting other than the usual clap trap of life which is interesting to few other than those who were there, despite the fact that it was quite captivating at the time.

I know Brussels relatively well now, and it is growing on me. Everything is much closer together than it seems initially. I had a good exploratory trip out toward Laeken (where the royal palace is), and found that despite the lengthy metro trip, it was actually quite close by to our area... relatively anyway.

Now I will go to visit J in Heidelberg, and then move on the Copenhagen, and then London, and then Edmonton.

Prague pictures

Pictures from Prague

sorry for the lack of explanations.... but here's a pile of pictures from Praha.

Prague

Another weekend, another trip... Prague.... I am officially going broke in the worst way possible. Nonetheless, Prague was beautiful as always. SUPER hot though. SUpposedly it was 39 degrees in some areas of the Czech republic. So we sampled the generous Czech authorities' provision of water spraying trucks in the street, which actually made a huge difference to our lives. Prague is much pricier than it was... though still not too bad if you stay out of the ultra intense tourist zones. Enjoyed the pear orchard... enjoyed the presidential palace.... stayed in a decent hostel. Back to work tomorrow.

Pix

I uploaded some pics of Dubrovnik...

Tour de France

The internet from the neighbours is very cyclical, so i will take this extremely fast opportunity to write that I went to the tour de France today.... I felt very ferris bueller's day off because I had to skip the end of work,.... it was actually a very good atmosphere and impressive.

Continued: Sorry, but our internet is broken, so we have to steal the neighbours' and it seems to have a very fast on-off cycle in which we can actually use it... strange but true. Anyway, the tour was definetely worth seeing. Such, good atmosphere; everyone was really excited. I climbed a tree and watched the whole proceedings from there. I'll post pics when the internet eventually starts to work again. The reason I could go is because its a parliamentary Strasbourg week, so the Brussels contingent is left with relatively little actual work to do.