Having got back from Zakopane, Espe was suddenly quite ill. She had the same as me the week before but much worse (as it turns out our flat mate in Madrid suffered the same so obviously some kind of virus going around). She spent two days in bed unable to do much more than watch the tennis. Really gutting as she was so excited about this trip and yet she has returned home without seeing Krakow at all. She didn’t even get to hear the trumpet in the main square… We will have to come back. This week I was…
I was joined by Espe on Saturday in Krakow. A lazy day spent avoiding the Pope, although we did have an good meal down in the old Jewish quarter of the city with live music accompaniment. On Sunday we got on the bus down to Zakopane (4 euros for a 200km trip!). A picturesque village at the foot of the Tatra Mountain range. The weather was pretty terrible and the prohibition laws we were trying to escape were also in force in Zakopane. That didn’t ruin our evening though as we found a wonderful log cabin restaurant serving traditional Polish…
Welcomed by blue skies, warm sunshine and full terraces I’m delighted to once again be in Krakow. The beginning of the week was not so great as I was a little ill, but come Wednesday I was back to normal and ready for one of the infamous Cap Krakow nights out. A good meal in Metropolitan followed by far too many beers in a nice courtyard terrace bar and subterranean club. A few more than too many beers for a couple of the managers. One was completely incoherent by the end of the night and another managed to fall up…
A few goodies for you here: First off, the World Press Photo winners 2006. I saw the 2005 exhibition in Krakow last year. A truly moving experience. Those in London, if your quick, you can see the exhibition in the Royal Albert Hall. For those who are not take a look at www.worldpressphoto.nl and for full effect try to read the background to each photo. I’ve been assisting some of the lads who are doing the Mongol Rally this year in a team of three Minis. 6 of them are going after Pete (Espe’s old flatmate in Madrid) watched Jon…
Another flying trip to the UK on the way to Poland. Nice as the flights are paid for by the company, but so short I don’t really get to see anybody. On Saturday I went up to Tottenham Court Road to look at expensive electricle goods and then went round to see Marc’s latest toy. A 1970 Landrover. In need of some restoration work and I helped out by supervising Marc and his uncle change a wheel cylinder in the rain and wind. It was quite a shock going from the humid 30+ temperatures in Madrid to the misery that…
I finally went round to Philippes last night to have a bit of a play with his Honda ZFR 800. Something we’ve been meaning to do since I convinced him to invest in a Haynes manual a few months back. We set about adjusting the chain which had far too much slack. Reasonably simple to do, but it still resulted in a skinned knucle for Philippe. First rule of car/bike maintanence learnt: You will hurt yourself. Having adjusted the chain we decided to take the fairings off the bike and have a good look at all the fun stuff below.…
Congratulations to Jen, one of my work colleagues, who just won her first bike racing trophy. She got 2nd place on one of the races this weekend at Brands Hatch as part of the Bemsee Clubman 400 series. A phenominal feat for someone who only got her bike license 5 years ago, and is in her first race season. She also won Rookie of the day. Read her blog at blogs.sun.com/racerjen Jen mentions another racer, Conrad, in her blog. As it turns out this Conrad chap also works for Sun and he has a rather intersting pic on the internal…
For those that know of Boris Johnson, especially from Have I Got News for You, will appreciate the comedy value he adds to this world. For those that do not, take a look over the WikiPedia entry for him. Boris was recently invited to join a charity Germany v England football match. Unfortunately I don’t think they played much football at Eton… Boris Video “there was no malice in my actions. I was going for the ball with my head, which I understand is a legitimate move”