In each of us smoulders a desire to "burn sh!t down"
In every generation, a few are chosen to prove itFestival 1: Up Helly Aa ( Read more... )

Susan has a knack, a gift if you will. She can sense if good deals are on sale around her, and she can also tell if the price is right. Even if she knows nothing about the product, she can usually negotiate quite successfully. This time was no different. Somewhere in the depth of the world wide web she found a deal, a "driving experience" - which ( Read more... )

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Thought I'd start this post with apology. My chief photographer and all her equipment is still in London :( so no photos yet ( Read more... )

I sometimes wonder, what it is that makes a rational, sane, and risk averse person - like for instance me - attach 2 planks of wood to their feet, and then hurl themselves off the top of a mountain, at speeds well above walking. I contemplate that question from philosophical and historical perspectives, not forgetting the influences of Freud and ( Read more... )

Like all clearly thinking locals, we recently decided that winter is the perfect time to fly south. To that affect - a destination was picked, that we had both been really keen to visit. Barcelona - the city of unbelievably relaxed atmosphere, delightfully tasty beer nuts... no wait... Tapas, some seriously cool buildings, and something close to ( Read more... )

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There were 2 things that I knew about Stockholm before we went there:
1. It's full of left wing journalists, who, with the help of Goth hackers of the female persuasion bust massive government conspiracies. Every week. You can thank Steig Larsson for that one ( Read more... )

I know I haven't written in a while but between studies and Christmas preparations, things have been a bit busier than expected :) A few months ago, we travelled to Sweden, so I thought I'd recall some of the more interesting bits of that trip. Our first stop was the mountain station in the village of Abisko. This village is located in Lapland - ( Read more... )

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