Jan.27 - Road Trip

I am playing around with the idea of a holiday in Europe by car. From Finland we could take a cruise to Rostock, Tallin or Riga and continue by car from there. Admitted, it's a pretty long drive to the Mediterranean and considering Dani already thinks the 40 Km trip to Helsinki is far too long, doing it will have to wait a couple of years. Still, from Riga you should be able to reach northern Italy within two days. You could also take it a bit slower since cities like Warsaw, Prague and Vienna are basically on the same route.

Jan. 22 - Munich

Last week I spent a couple of days in Munich on a conference for software development. I was lucky to miss the worst of the cold that visited Finland. Mikaela and the kids were dealing with -25 temperatures. At those conditions your car usually starts to do weird stuff, especially the electrical system. Last Friday Mikaela's Ford Focus decided to lock itself while the engine was running and Dani inside. With Mikaela outside, scraching the ice from the windows and no spare key, she could only do one thing, it involved a hammer....

Munich by the way seems like a fun city to be, not only is there lots to see, there is also an excellent park (Englische Garten), it even has a beach, and has some great events (the Oktoberfest to name one). Like last year, it surprised me that Muncheners love to eat out. Restaurants are packed really every night, prices are acceptable and people are in a good mood generally. Furthermore, they love to drink beer man....

Jan. 11 - Cool mouse

Now this is cool. Makes me think, when will my nokia phone be able to connect to my laptop via bluetooth and serve as mouse for it AND play MP3's AND be my navigation device the minute I step into my car looking for the supermarket AND take the dog out for walks?