It´s been a while

Okay so it has been a while since I last made a post. The main reason I have been such a slacker is that I lost my free internet connection about a week and a half ago. I had somehow managed to pilfer the internet through the wireless on my laptop, but I think they are on to me now and so I haven´t been able to get online, apart from at work and I don´t think it is such a good idea blogging from work.

Anyway, this post is taking me three times as long as usual to write because I´m in an internet cafe using a crappy german keyboard with the keys in different places...Okay enough moaning, what have I been up to?

Well, Asia arrived on Wednesday, so it was pretty great to see her again after about a month by myself. Today, we went to check out the castle that I took a photo of a couple of weeks ago. Man, it was even more amazing up close, we spent about three hours just looking around it. We had intended to go to Freiburg this weekend but by the time we got organised in the morning it was practically lunchtime, so we decided on the castle and a visit to Tübingen instead. Quite good anyhow since Asia is still feeling a little jet lagged. I took some great shots (as did Asia), I will get round to posting them at same stage but for now you will just have to make do with your imagination.

How about that bomb threat at Heathrow? I think Asia just missed all the commotion by a few hours, so that was pretty good timing...

Hmmm, what else? I went into Stuttgart last weekend to check it out properly for the first time. It has much more of a big city feel than either Tübingen or Reutlingen but it still manages to retain some of the charm of the smaller places. I have got a trip back there planned probably for next weekend. We are going to go check out a Bundesliga game, with a few of the guys from work so that should be pretty interesting. Apparently Stuttgart has quite a good team, they finished fifth in the league or something last year.

Work has been really hectic, I´m still feeling pretty overwhelmed by how much I don´t know but hey it´s great to be learning some really interesting stuff. I have been working with the Australian system quite a bit a that is a nice change from the central North Island (Auckland...). For you lads at Transpower, I hope things are going well. I think I will be back in New Zealand for a week or so on the fifth of October, so I will try and pop in for a visit.

As for this blog, well I don´t know know how often I will be updating it from now onwards, the lack of internet connection at home is a bit of a drag. I will at a minimum try and post at least once a fortnight maybe more often we will see how things go. Okay everyone, keep well and Ciao for now.

Brad