What did I do to deserve such a wonderful best friend ( Read more... )

End of days?

Doesn't matter if you think it's global warming provoked by man, The Apocalypse, a natural part of the earth's lifecycle (i.e. death) or something else altogether - whichever way you look at it, we're falling to pieces.

The urge to get out and see the world, while it's still here to be seen, is getting stronger by the day...

Today marks exactly three years since I moved here to Catalonia.
Funny, it feels like a lifetime.

Have you guys heard these guys ( Read more... )

Last night, while we were eating dinner and watching the news, I mentioned to Florenci how it was going to be nice to be in England for a week and get away from all of the football hype we have here at the moment ( Read more... )

I know, I know, you've all almost forgotten we even went, right?!

Sorry, there was quite a lot of organizing to be done - mainly because I discovered, after we got back, that the best possible quality photos that the little video camera we bought for the trip can take look like webcam photos. Bwaaaaaa ( Read more... )

Man, it's cold here!

To be truthful, I wasn't ready to leave Sri Lanka. I would love to have had more time there. Really hoping to go back sometime.

Still, also nice to be back where I can do things without having to think and figure out how everything works, all the time!

For now, though, I can hear a nice, hot shower calling me.
Mmmmmmm,

With severly bruised ankles, courtesy of the hiking boots I bought just before we came over, but I survived ( Read more... )

In about three and a half hours (which is to say, at about 1:30am), we'll be embarking on our ascent of Adam's Peak (or Sri Padha, in Sinhala). The tradition is that you make the climb overnight and get up to the peak in time to view the sunrise. In addition, your first time is considered to be a promise to return, which means you don't get to ring ( Read more... )

In case I have neglected to mention it before now, I am not even going to try to keep this journal up to date with everything that's going on while we're here. Simply not enough time ( Read more... )