I got up this morning, fixed an espresso, and hopped online to check the SAS advent calendar. I love the SAS advent calendar. In 2002 it provided the cheap ticket to fly from Seattle to Milan. We drove from Milan to Courmayeur and skied all week. Last year I blogged about the advent calendar. I …
Cinghiale Cycling Tours Lindsey sent me a link to this very cool cycling tour site. I have never toured with them personally but I have spent a few days riding in Tuscany. Riding with a guide would be cool, riding with Andy Hampsten would be very cool (although of course you’d need to accept that …
Jonas Bendiksen takes some amazing photos. His book, Satellites was just gorgeous and of course very depressing. This photo shoot in the slums around Mumbai is similar; hope and happiness in terrible places.If you get a chance to see one of his shows, do it. He has an amazing repertory of stories as he got …
Let’s have breakfast in bed I am losing the family weight bet by a handy margin. Ouch, gained 4 pounds this week. Not good. It turns out that instead of breakfast in bed I actually may have eaten the entire damn bed. Back to the coffee diet I guess.
April showers bring May flowers I’ve never thought too much about this phrase but it is interesting and a nice platitude that the pain and suffering now can bring good results later. The converse must also be true: the cycling I am not doing now will bring about no flowering of ability in May. It’s …
Loads to get catch up on. First, exercise: pretty poor week but I expected that. I will basically do last week’s workouts this week although I have already missed Monday due to jet lag. Second, let me say that I have a deep and abiding hatred for a Swiss Air counter person, last name something …
Web cam of Zurich
I love you. A nice sentiment practicing for Valentine’s Day tomorrow.
Do you have a pencil I can borrow? I get “Ha una matita”. Even “che posso” I understand. Prendere is lurking at the back of my brain as something from Pimsleur but I thought the word meant “to take”, hm… Ah, there we go, prendere in prestito tanslates literally as “to take in loan”. Looking …
SAS Christmas Calendar 2006 If the ABBA museum was open I’d consider it:-)