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Dancing, week 4
Since the uni double booked the rooms, or shuffled bookings about, this week's Swing dance was slightly shorter than usual. This was compensated for by 30 minutes of 'social' dancing after the class ( Read more... ) -
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For the past few weeks I've been going along to swing dance classes, hosted by the Edinburgh uni Swing Dance society (open to non-students, yay!). I'm planning to write a brief lesson review here each week, largely to help me remember what we did ( Read more... ) -
It was the best of times, it was the worst, the very worst, of times.
Nope, this isn't a post about how bad things are, it's actually about a competition dedicated to bad opening sentences for books.
www.bulwer-lytton.com/ is a competition that began in the early 80s, and is still going on strong. The idea is that people compete to write "the opening sentence to the worst of all possible novels".
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Oslo!
Thursday morning started very very early. Actually, I think it was Wednesday night. Definitely Wednesday night, since I hadn't slept. Anyway, we (Kareina and I) left the house at 3am in order to walk to Centrale station, in order to catch the bus to Milano-Bergamo airport, in order to catch a 6:30am flight to "Oslo" Torp airport.
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Some time in Edinburgh
Just last week I returned to Milan from Scotland. The trip to Scotland turned out to be quite enjoyable, despite the main reason for the trip.
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New Year's and after
A couple of days before New Year's (Hogmany in Scotland) I had no firm plans. There were New Year's things happening in Inverness, and I'd written to a few couchsurfers in Edinburgh. Happily, one of the Edinburgh couchsurfers, the one I was most interested in meeting, wrote back saying that they were having a B-movie night on the 30th, and then a ( Read more... ) -
Umm... what?
So, browsing the internet, I came across a list in the Age online (The Age is a Melbourne newspaper) of movies to look forwards to in 2010. This could be interesting, methinks, so I have a read. Happily, they include embedded youtube movies of the trailers. More happily, one of the movies featured, with trailer, is part one of Harry Potter and ( Read more... ) -
The trip to Scotland, aka. My dear Sir, welcome to Scotland, may I introduce you to Snow?
Today started at 6am, when I left the apartment to walk to Statione Centrale, in order to bus to Bergamo, to fly to Glasgow, to bus to Inverness. It is now afer midnight Milan time, and I am knackered.
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A few notes on surface transportation in Milan
1) Milan was not designed for getting around without a car ( Read more... )