London usually dont get much snow during the winter since it is in its own weather pocket that is up to 5 degrees warmer than the surrounding areas. But yesterday the flakes started to fall just as Ann and I was heading home from meeting one of her friends.
This morning I went up to the local Gladstone Park to try out my new camera and see out if I could figure out how to take snow shots.
Nice day!
Last weekend started off great with a dinner Friday night at one of my favourite eating places when we lived in Prague 6. Tandoor is a small restaurant at the bottom of a small alley almost hidden if you don’t know of it’s existence. The interior is quite modest but the food is great and reasonably priced. There were seven of us there and some could not get it hot enough.Â
At the next table over I heard the people speaking Danish and I’m always a bit giddy when I hear Danish in Prague. It’s not that often I get to talk Danish and it’s nice and homey to hear it. This time I got the idea that one of them was a blogger I had read before so I went over and said Hi and it turned out that it actually was Nicolai from auramin.com. He’s been in Prague for almost two years but it’s only been about 4 month’s since I discovered his blog. He always has some great pictures of the food he makes or eats and it was cool to meet him.
After the meal Kathleen, Carljan and I decided to take a night walk across town through some of the prettiest parts of town in the cover of darkness with many of the streets abandoned of people. I forgot to take any pictures tho.
Saturday I spent with Hermann geeking around trying to rescue the lost blog posts. More about that in a later post but things look bright.Â
Sunday I was up early and then I went with a bunch of friends to the hills in Herlikovice . I haven’t really taken full advantage of having mountains 120 km from Prague but at least I got my second time in snow this weekend. Many of the others were on snowboard so I decided to give it a try and I really liked it.
I got some hard falls and sometimes the board was running way faster than I wanted it to, but controlling it wasn’t that different from skiing so I made some good progress. I never figured out how to make a a turn with the board facing downhill tho.
On the way home we stopped in a small village with a quaint square for a well deserved dinner 🙂
December and January was quite busy month with birthdays and house parties in Prague so instead of doing that for my birthday I decided to organize a trip out of town for my Prague friends. With the help of Helge and Pavel I found a small pension in Spinderuv Mlyn, the most popular destination for skiing and snowboarding in Czech Republic. We ended up being 14 people (from 10 countries). Here is part of the first group who took the bus ready to leave Prague.
The first day the weather was not the best but it snowed as well so we had pretty good slopes to work with.
About half the group went skiing and all of those had done it before. The other half went snowboarding with most of them being first-timers. This of course made the snowboarders drop on a regular basis for the enjoyment of the rest of us. Heres Grace after a less than graceful fall.
On the cool-scale Bjorn the German took the price skiing in his lederhosen with a regular coat. He was laid back as he went down the mountain and never hit the deck.
The nightlife in Spinderuv Mlyn turned out to be a lot of fun as well where we danced till we were completely done.
I dont really know what Mickey Mouse and Krteek was doing at the club but at that point we thought it was fun.
Here is a picture as we were ready to leave on Sunday with everybodys limps still intact, happy but bruised. 
While Prague looks something like this.
Im going south to catch a week with Ann in Malta and I cant wait to see something like this.
Picture by Larsj
Excited like a little boy 
I haven t made a proper post here for a long, long time. Sorry for that – let me get you up to speed.
December flew away with a job in Denmark were I held a seminar on how to do interaction design. After that gig I travelled across the country meeting with Rasmus in Randers, Rikke and Lene in århus, sister and family in Odder, met with Femi and partied with the boys in Copenhagen and ended up cruising Lund/Malmø with the Swedes.
Fast forwarding I spend Christmas in Toftlund and New Years Eve in Aalborg with old university buddies. I stayed in Aalborg for a couple of weeks and worked on a project with the good guys of CommunicateIT. I then headed to my parents place.
All the while I had been checking records, looking at dmi.dk for long term weather forecasts because Ann was coming to Denmark at the end of January – and as a Maltese she had never seen snow fall. Chances of snow in Denmark are however not that big, we get it occasionally during the winter but it s not that common. To give you an impression the last 100 years Denmark has been covered by snow 7 times on Christmas Day. End of January came and it looked like all we would be getting was the first storm of the year.
Ok, so finally Ann came to Denmark and we had a great week seeing place, meeting people and enjoying each others company. We started out in Copenhagen (without a camera) were we walked around a little bit and then went to see Mozart s Lucio Silla at the Royal Theatre.
Neither of us had seen an opera before so it was an interesting experience but it didn t really blow us away. The next day we walked a bit more and saw Nyhavn, the Royal Palace and The Marble Church.
We drove back home to Jylland just in time before they closed the two main bridges in Denmark due to the storm. Back in the sticks we went out to a farm close by were we got to greet some of the newborns.
The next day we headed to the oldest town in Denmark, Ribe were we saw the old cathedral and went up the tower nearly to be blown off. Ribe is a cozy little town but the weather was really bad with rain and wind so we didn t make it that far in our layers upon layers of warm cloths.
The whole family joined together for the weekend on the island of Fanø (a bit less than 1/5 the size of Malta). We spend the weekend in a summer house, well heated by the the wood stove having it hyggeligt.
The storm had past the west coast and lo and behold it it s wake came this
Enough snow for a proper snow fight and enough to build a small snow man.
All in all a nice cosy family weekend and I really enjoyed showing Ann my family and vice versa. The day after I followed Ann to Bremen were her flight was from and I continued on to Prague.
It s nice to be back home in Prague although it is still really cold here. In little more than a month I m going to Malta again for some rays of Ann and rays of sun 
Så er jeg tilbage i Ann Arbor efter en weekend med sne og ski. Sammen med en flok venner havde jeg en rigtig hyggelig weekend i det nordlige Michigan.
Vi har været i noget der hedder Boyne Highlands, som ligger ca. 5 timers kørsel fra Ann Arbor. Vi tog afsted fredag aften og var klar på ski lørdag morgen efter en vidunderlig morgenmads buffet.
Der er et par steder her i den øverste del af Michigan, hvor man kan stå på ski og stedet her skulle efter sigende være et af de bedre. Det er ikke ligefrem bjerge som i Frankrig eller Colorado, men for en weekend er det meget underholdende og det er fedt at have det så tæt på, så man kan lave en weekend tur ud af det.
Vi var ni mand afsted og vi boede på to værelser på resortet, der ligger lige neden for bakken, så det var nemt at komme til og fra pistene. Derudover havde hotellet sauna, udendørs swimmingpool og hot-tub hvilket var yderst belejligt efter en lang dag på ski.
Weekenden før ville jeg have været til monster truck race i Detroit, men der var ingen der ville med mig og siden jeg ikke har nogen bil var der ikke rigtig noget alternativ. I stedet tog jeg med Josh fra huset til koncert. Udover vores egne fester får jeg ikke hørt meget livemusik herover, så det var en rigtig god aften med noget jazz-agtig musik fra et syv mands band der hedder Nomo.
Derudover er jeg ved at forberede min næste større tur som bliver til Austin, Texas engang i februar. Mine forældre har købt billet og er på vej herover i maj, hvor de tager turen Los Angeles, California -> Phoenix, Arizona + Grand Canyon -> Sheboygan, wisconsin -> Ann Arbor. Jeg følger med på Wisconsin -> Michigan delen af turen, så jeg er ved at finde ud af, hvad vi kan lave heromkring.
Sidst men ikke mindst er Pez (Christian) og jeg begyndt at snakke om vores road trip. Når jeg er færdig i slutningen af maj kommer han herover og så tager vi nok ca. 4 uger på landevejen – uh det bliver godt
Salute!
Update: Saa fik jeg ogsaa uploadet et lille videoclip fra turen: