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I finally, FINALLY got around to selecting, resizing and enhancing some pictures I took during the tarp of the trip that I have already written about (8-13 February)(click on “New Zealand” for more info). Enjoy!!
Had I been writing this here update on the day I should have written it, I would undoubtedly have named it after a well-known internet phenomenon featuring islands and boats. By now, I know better, and I’m saving that one for later. With that being said, today WAS another adventure, even though one would have expected it to be relatively normal.
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I really, really should update this blog more often! Forgive me for I have sinned, it’s been a week since my last update and all that… but there’s SO much to do here!! Well, I guess I’ll just have to dig deep into my memory banks and see what I can come up with. Accuracy is not guaranteed, but excitement is, as we cycle up the Old Coach Road, and wander across Ohakune some more.
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Waking up in Wellington, I was surprised that the dreaded jetlag seemed to have no effect on me. I was just a groggy as I usually am after waking up slightly too early. Fortunately, there was no time for my usual slow start, as there were buses to be caught and breakfasts to be had: we were on our way to Ohakune, one of the possible HQs for the dreaded Tongariro Crossing!
In November and December 2009, I went to Vienna (for a Hludowicus Project Meeting), and to Frankfurt (for a T&I project meeting). In between those two, I spent some time working in the ever-inspiring OEAW, where the coffee and company is good and plentiful, and strolled around beautiful Vienna in what turned out to be the last few nice days of the year (weather-wise, that is). Went to the Leopold Museum to see Munch and the Uncanny, went to the Albertina to compensate for this expressionist onslaught with some nice Impressionists impressions, went to the Wien Museum to experience the excitement of Vienna in the 20s and 30s (all great exhibitions by the way!), got lost in the labyrinth that is the Wiener Altstadt, got some trinkets at the Christkindlmarkt, went to the Kunsthistorisches Museum to gawk at Old Dutch Masters, Egyptian stuff and Charles the Bold, and felt revived by all this high art and culture.
Also, I drank quite a few beers, gluhweins, Rieslinge, and other beverages there, saw Modern Earl perform in some basement with some of my new-found friends, and had an overall good time! So thanks to everyone involved for making that happen!! (and an extra-special thank-you to Gerda for letting me stay at her apartment! You rock!)
Seeing as it has already been some time since all this went down (holidays, you know), I figured I’d just let the few pictures I took do the talking. Just a few, I’m afraid, as I actually had to work as well, but still, they seem kinda nice… Read the rest of this entry »
Published on 30 November 2008, here are my adventures wild a group of crazy medievalists-in-training in the Alsace…
From 13 October 2008, here’s a report on my adventures in Stockholm!
Originally written on 10 Oct 2008, about a trip to Leicester and York with my girlfriend…