so ts now super dark, and seems to be most of the day.
it’s supposed to have been snowing a fair amount, yet all we get is drizzle and cloud.

nic and i have our first french lesson today. there was an aussie there too. it’s not a bad price, and the teacher lady is cool.
we’ll probably be taking these twice a week for 20 weeks, so come on the ability to finally chat up a foreign girl!

oh yeh, i went snowboarding sunday!!!! it was ace, and my body is still aching. the lifts are only open at the weekends. the winter has begun!

hot!

i tried a snowboard, and will keep on demoing boards to find one more appropriate to the big mountains.

the job hunt is slow, as is the house hunt.

a photo i took from the bottom of the mountain the other day:

evening

so tomorrow the car is going to the garage to have the block box recorder fitted for the insurance company.
so nic and i can have a good swim and sauna, and maybe food too.

also, i have started copying all of my dvd’s to my hard drives, so that i can carry my dvd collection without a huge cd wallet, it’s taking time, but no rush. when i’m done i will sendf the dvd’s back to teh uk to be stored. the beginning of the end of physical media.

last thing, i made a great paella last night, and everybody even said they loved it, without teh need to threaten them!

me n me baked rice

also i began to use adobe lightroom 2 today. i think it may avoid the necessity to use photoshop so much. the program will allow me to organise photos, make small modifications. i’m liking it so far!! supposedly i can upload my pics directly to the net.

what else, i’m going to try to convert all of my camera’s raw files to .dng, as this will hopefully become de-facto, and wont become out dated as raw is already.

so now i have downgraded from my slr to my compact, and from photoshop to lightroom. easier to use and with plenty of usefulness.

ciao ciao for now.

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so i have been a little busy since i last updated. we haven’t had a good wifi signal here for a while.

i have sun bathed on a nudist beach. i much prefer being naked on the beach, even if it is with a friends family.

i went for a walk to a castle. and on the way home rescued a homeless kitten

she is beautiful and cute, and friendly, and always wants feeding!
the vet says she is in beautiful shape. she had worms and bacteria, but they have been cleaned up. she is in for her first vaccination soon. it will be a while before she is a ok for a passport, in the spring she should be ok to travel to the UK.
but she will join me in the mountains this winter.
it’s a little peculiar being vegetarian and buying meaty stuff!

we finally sold granny and grandad’s house which is great that it is out of the way.

marta and i went to andorra. do not go to andorra it is horrible. the mountains around there are nice. but andorra is a tiny cramped country, steep mountains with it’s valleys filled with horrid shopping centres selling overpriced crap to thousands of smokey tourists.

i have finally managed to get up to date uploading my photos of my travels and life to flickr. it has taken me 8-9 months to get back to this state, but i’m sure i will fall back when i get moving again! it helps to upload pictures that are 1024683 rather than 3888×2592, much quicker!

so have a look at a few:

so we’re off to the beach now, woo!!!

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so i got back from denmark friday.

i loved it,
5 weeks living in a tent,
4 weeks picking strawberries,
hanging with many breton people,
accordion playing,
parties,
rain and cold,
sun and hot and tan,
danish people,
danske,
ice creams,
much food,
cakes,
most beautiful beaches,
swimming in cold sea,
bicycle riding,
working hard,
practicing french.
i really liked denmark and may spend some more time there in the future.

i’ve put on weight, at least one ice cream every day in denmark, means maybe 50 ice creams! and in copenhagen 2 cakes a day for a week. i need to exercise!!!!!!!

for now, i have uploaded more pics to my flickr, go see! they are from ages ago now, but little by little i will catch up!

i’ve completed my verbier winter, and started my road trip. most of my photos in verbier were for my 365 day project, meh.

so tomorrow i start to job hunt, as i have no money.

ideas:
help martin finish building his boat before winter.
pick grapes in france. (mis september to end of october)

but before i can do anything i must work a while here as i’m uber broke.

before winter i must return to london to get my snowboard gear.

also i promised to take nic to climb a mountain somewhere in europe. for this i am looking for other who wish to join.

i’d quite like to see some people in brittany also.

finally i will most likely return to switzerland for the winter, for money reasons mainly as pay is so much better there.

i miss people in london and want to see them!

on a side note, i have managed to get my computer connected to a network here at marta’s, and i love my computer lots, the web and computers are finally advancing to a reasonable point for using the internet.

i’d like a small computer or device with wifi for using on the move. i have no money but can dream. ideas are:
htc diamond, phone like iphone but with more features.
ipone 3g.
asus eee pc, mini pc no bigger than a primary school note book (A5).
cowon q5w, media player.
all of these are similarly priced £200-£300. all could fit into my bag.

also i learned that i need a portable hard disk, as travelling and taking photos causes problems when memory cards are full. another thing i must save for!

tak.

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