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It's been a couple of weeks since our little weekender in Namur, Belgium. As usual getting straight into work, especially with a big beta release coming up, meant getting on with writing an entry was somewhat delayed. I put together some notes while returning on the Eurostar train and rather than attempt to write anything detailed about the trip I'll stick to these few snippets and some photos – with such a plan perhaps I will actually finish this!

Citadelle of Namur

We arrived in Namur on the evening of Friday May 14th and settled into our hotel, Les Tanneurs de Namur, taking a few moments to admire our room. Rarely do I have the opportunity to describe a hotel room as sumptuous, as I usually book hotels with the mindset of just wanting somewhere simple, but clean, to sleep. In this case the hotel was somewhat more expensive than I'd usually bother with. This was because I'd thought two weeks was reasonable notice for booking a hotel but hadn't realised that quite a large festival was taking place in Namur over the weekend of our visit! C'est la vie! The room even had a lamp with built in speakers and iPhone dock, most convenient since I had forgotten my iPhone cable!

Continue reading Namur in May.

We're off on our first holiday since our last flash-visit through Australia (it was 3 weeks, but it always flashes by so fast.) This trip is only a long weekend, and we're off to Namur in Belgium. A friend of ours lives over there… an excellent excuse to visit! Looking forward to some good Belgian beer.

Continue reading Namur en Mai.

I started writing a detailed account of our trip to Cornwall a couple of weeks ago. But since then I've broken the LCD on my poor little abused Asus Eee, I've lost my train-commute writing time for the moment. So, instead, here's a link to my photo gallery from the trip:

Continue reading Cornwall, August 2009.

Café Snowdon!

This could be an interesting theme: climb mountains and make espresso at their peaks.

Continue reading Café Snowdon.