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Sunday, February 6th, 2011

PlagneWell apparently twitter failed to process my text messages. I always use my twitter to keep the people “at home” up to date what I am doing during my holidays.  Because that failed, I thought it was time to make one of my rare blog posts.

We went to Belle Plagne this year. It is the second time I have been there. We went by train this year. Which is quite relaxing, shame there is no connection with my city so we had to drive the first part. Which was quite adventurous because the car did not had any heating and radio and it was freezing outside. Train ride went smoothly. Just relax, eat listen to music and drink a beer at the bar in the restoration wagon. After the bus ride we came to our very small apartment. About 25 m2 with 4 people. Long live earplugs for snoring roommates :-)

Quality of the snow was extremely bad. It had not been snowing for about three weeks, making the slopes very icy at the end of the day. This resulted in some injuries to my friends. My skiing has progressed a lot since last year. I took some lessons at Snowlimits that really paid off. I even took a black slope this year!

French kitchen is a bit of “meh”, I still prefer Austrian schnitzels :-)

Next stop… Egypt

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

After Brasil in September it is time for my next goal: visit the pyramids of Egypt. I am very fascinated by the rich history of Egypt. Fortunately a friend shares the interest. We will be going on a 14 day trip visiting all kind of tourist places like Cairo, Gizeh, Alexandria, Luxor and Aswam. I have to wait a while though. We leave December  3rd.

Twitter

Wednesday, June 24th, 2009

I finally caved in:  http://www.twitter.com/caliburn77

Still need to research the options to intergrate it with this blog. There is probably a plugin for it.

Ode to my NEW car

Sunday, June 14th, 2009

A picture of my new car:

Some properties about my car:

Brand: Seat Ibiza 1.4

Creation date: April 2003

Milage: 50.000 kms

Ode to my car.

Saturday, May 23rd, 2009

Sigh.. making new posts once a week is hard.. :S

Anyways here is a picture of my car:

Some properties about my car:

Brand: Volkwagen Golf III 1.9 SDI

Creation date: November 1995 (in my possession since July 2004)

Milage: 255.000 kms (116.000 kms driven by me)

This is my first car. I have driven with this car to my previous job back and forth, 120 kms a day. It has its little minor problems. A radio-antenna that is broken, rust forming near the wheels and a little dent at the left rear wheel.

Why am I posting this? This car will go to the dump beginning of June. I will miss it.

Brasil : Day 7 and 8

Sunday, October 12th, 2008

Day 7 Relax day, with some shopping, lunch, packing and dinner in Olinda

Day 8 After a nice breakfast, I went by bus back to Natal to take a flight back home

It was a very nice, but short holiday.

Brasil : day 4,5,6

Saturday, October 4th, 2008

Day 4 went to the island, went to the beach for a swim and some beer. In the evening the local town was crowded with locals holding a campagne for their local major candidate.

Day 5 Went on a boattrip to see some sites. Returned sun burned from the boat trip to see a fort and some sea cows (that right? no ídea to lazy to look :-) ) Went for a beer in the town and again at an Italian restaurant.

Day 6 Started the day at the beach. After that we went back to Olinda. I will be going to my brothers percussion band who are rehearsing tonight.

Brasil : day 1,2,3

Wednesday, October 1st, 2008

Day 1 Had a terrible flight. My brother was waiting for me in Natal. We had a nice beer at the beach of Natal.

Day 2 Had a nice morning at the beach of Natal, went to Olinda by bus. We had a nice dinner in Olinda and had a lot of fun after at a local bar there. Olinda is very nice and social place to be!

Day 3 Went to a meeting of my brother’s work in Recife after that we went site seeing down town.

In short, everthing goes well. Although a bit hot :-) Tomorrow we are going to an Island near Olinda for 2 days. Maybe I can post again this weekend.

Gone for a week

Sunday, September 28th, 2008

Not that it really matters seeing how often I post :-) But my holiday to Brasil starts tomorrow. Maybe I am able to post during vacation, maybe not. I have to sea. Anyways good luck with work, good luck with school etc etc. I am off to the sun! :D

Blue sea, white sand and a bottle of Skol

Tuesday, August 26th, 2008

I made a deal with Chandler a while back. We would push eachother to make a post once a week. Well I did not succeed this time :S

It has been almost 2 years that I have been to Brasil with my brother. I have good memories of that trip. One of the best memories were me and my brother sitting down at the beach, with a nice beer like the topic and the pictures shows. Plans were to go on holiday to the alps this year. Sadly it was not possible for me to go on the last moment.  Fortunately my brother still lives in Olinda.  So I will be visiting him from September 29th to October 6th! I am looking forward to it.


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