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The next stop is Bologna

Master Tim — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:56:03 +0000

As promised, here is a picture of our car. Isn’t it awesome? In the background you can see the farm house and the wine fields where we were staying the last couple of days.

Today we are going to Bologna, where we will be staying for a couple of days. Things to do there? There will be a Parma Ham festival!

No more internet until Rome from here on, so I am not sure if I can post more in the coming days. I guess you will just have to wait and find out…

P.S. I uploaded an odd 40 additional pictures to Facebook if you want see some more.

Today’s goal: open the top and drive!

Master Tim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:28:32 +0000

We rented a car to drive through Italy, and when we picked it up we got a free upgrade. So now we are driving around with a cabriolet; the Peugeot 207cc.

Today we are going to try and open the top and cruise! And after we will have some wine and lounge in the wine fields surrounding our B&B. Will post some pics of this ‘adventure’ later.

Oh, and did I mention we hiked through a waterfall park yesterday? Here, let me show you some pics we took there…

Venice and Lake Garda

Master Tim — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 17:13:16 +0000

Oh yeah! We have just spent three days in Venice, and it was amazing. It was very romantic and enchanting. Here is one picture of us on St Mark’s Basilica.

Today we arrived at Lake Garda where we are staying in a very romantic Bed and Breakfast in the middle of some wine fields.

Cleaned up and ready to go!

Master Tim — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:45:15 +0000

Cheryl and I just finished cleaning the house. We are going to have a friend staying here while we are going - he needed a place to crash for a few weeks so that worked out perfectly.

Two more hours and we are off to the airport. Italy here we come!

Taking a break from Germany

Master Tim — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:43:51 +0000

Tomorrow I will be enjoying the nice weather and culture in beautiful Venice. This is only the first part of our trip.

We will be driving from Venice to Rome make lot of stops on the way. One of the stops will be wine farm where we crash for a few days.

And we have more planned. All with the goal to chill and take a break from Germany and our jobs. I will be signing in once in a while to share the Italy experience…

Fortune Cookie Genious

Master Tim — Sat, 30 Aug 2008 08:58:02 +0000

The other day I got the best Fortune Cookie message. It fits in right with my all my heavy metal interests. It said:

“The finest steel has to go through the hottest fire!“

Screeaaammmm!! Metal!!!

Sorry about that…

‘Our’ Metallica is back?

Master Tim — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 05:29:44 +0000

A track by track review by The Quietus and a review by a UK Magazine called Terrorizer are saying good things. The band might make history once again…

Though there are some doubters as well.

Lunch and ‘The Day That Never Comes’

Master Tim — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:13:53 +0000

This weekend has been amazing! I finally returned home after another long business trip (attending the developer conference in Leipzig). So coming home I tried to have a relaxing time. I had a nice lunch as shown below. It is the first time I ever bought Sushi. Impressive, right? I also finished Call of Duty 4. And later today we will be heading out to the birthday and housewarming party of a friend from work.

Then, of course, there was Metallica who released their new single, ‘The Day That Never Comes’. After having listened to the song many times I have fallen deeply in love with it. I want you all the experience, so I will add a YouTube link featuring the full song in high quality sound (the band made this available for free on their website). The song has been taken from the forthcoming album Death Magnetic, which will be released September 12th.

Have a great weekend everybody!

Volunteering at Revofest

Master Tim — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 14:21:13 +0000

I told you all a while ago that there’d be a festival in the area called Revofest. You can find the flyer in a post below. Well, I am volunteering there in the Green Room. This is where the VIPs hang out, and I basically make sure they have a good time and get everything they need.

I have never done it before, but it is kinda neat hanging with the artists. The biggest act this festival has is Sixpence NTR and they are really cool people. I made coffee for the singer, and caught her stretching her neg (trust me, it looked weird), so we had some fun. I also met some local bands and chatted with a UK band.

Today me and Cheryl will be going to the festival as regular visitor, just hanging and listening to the music. Tomorrow I will be volunteering again, and will help cleaning up the Green Room. Pictures to follow.

Monday I am going to go on a week long business trip to Leipzig… good times! Oh, and last week I was in Minneapolis (USA) for a week long trip as well. In September I have a couple of weeks off during which Cheryl and I will go on a trip to Italy :)

Happy Monday everybody!

Master Tim — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:39:18 +0000

My day has come to an end, and it was a good one. I guess that depending on where you live in the world the day might still be going. Or you might already even be enjoying the Tuesday! Crazy isn’t it? Anyway, the reason I check in is because I haven’t been doing that as much recently, checking in with you guys. So I thought it is time to give you a heads up of what’s been going on…

I have been quite busy the last couple of weeks. If you have been checking out this place you probably noticed I spent some time in the States. I went to Los Angeles for one week, followed by one week Seattle. This was all work related. The week before I was hanging out at the Magic Circle Festival of which I posted some photos (there are more on Facebook).

This week I am spending some quality time with my wife! It was about time after not having seen her for almost three weeks straight. The coming two weeks I will also be traveling though, but not in the weekend, just from Monday to Fridays. So that is much better! I will be going to America once again, for one week, followed by one week in Leipzig. Also, all for work. I love my job! It takes me around the world :)

Other things that have been going on…. oh yeah! Me and Cheryl (she is my wife - for those of you new to my blog), drove to Holland last weekend to help a friend move appartments. Well, actually he moved the day before, but we helped him set up some IKEA furniture. We also played some Nintendo (SNES) and ate Chinese at his place. Good times!

Other things I am excited about: I just saw Cloverfield on Blu-Ray. Boy, that is one exciting movie! In other news, Metallica announced they are releasing their new album on September 12th. I guess this excites me, and not the rest of you. So back to the real world. Erhm. Oh, this weekend there is a music festival in Aschaffeburg, called Kommz.

We will have two friends from Holland visiting. Saturday we will hike in the area, and then we will head down to the festival and spend some time there. And that is about it… oh, no! One more thing! Cheryl and I bought a TomTom route navigation system. We finally gave in, and we love it!

So that’s it for today… happy Monday and talk to you again soon!