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Ego trip: pt 1

nemo — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:57:04 +0000

I’ve been back a week and I haven’t told the internet at large about it.

I haven’t blogged. I haven’t LJ’d. I have barely even wiki’d.

It’s not that anything is seriously amiss, just a combination of a few points. One being the time and energy to refit myself into Canberra work and timetable. Once the rhythm of day-to-day is gone, it’s harder to pickup than I realised. Not that I am one to encourage a mindless repetitive life, but rather recognising that currently, I tend to have about a month planned ahead, and it’s taking me a little time to get that buffer back up to speed. Re-establishing social contacts, getting back to speed with an eating schedule (and maybe a cooking one next week when I hit the markets!). All that kind of thing.

Another thing occupying my time here is the building of a new fileserver. Why? Because amongst other needs, I have more photos on memory cards from Europe than will fit onto $HOME as it stands.

However, people have asked about the trip, and over the coming months I’ll be blogging several city reviews and general travel observations, so start by being reminded of the itinerary.

Copenhagen
Amsterdam
Berlin
Frankfurt
Brussels
Paris
Cardiff
London

I have emphased those which were the visited ‘nemo’ places of the Ego trip. Other cities were visited, and other nemos were not visited, but other unplanned nemos were found (not all by me either), but I’ll get to those with the rest in good time. I’m also going to keep the ‘what was your favourite city?’ answer off the radar for a little while longer too, since I want to present my reasonings as clear as possible.

Finally, as noted, I did take a tremendous amount of photos, so there is alot of editing ahead (especially all the panorama shots) before they really become public. All will become clear in good time!

It was a fun journey, and I’m looking forward to getting some elements of that across to here…

realigning my mind

nemo — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 19:49:52 +0000

Nothing to do with The Dark Knight – which I saw earlier this evening (and incidentally, I thought it was disturbingly excellent thanks to characters and concepts, rather than merely imagery and violence)

But I am realigning my time. it’s early in the AM where I am, but later in the PM where I am going…

Copenhagen, here I come, ready or not.

egotrip

nemo — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 13:49:16 +0000

In keeping with my (previously unstated) plan for an absolute minimum of one blog post per week, this is where I apologise in advance if I fail that deadline for the next month.

Why would I announce my schedule now if I know that I may not keep it? Simple. It lets me segue into the reasons for such interruptions. Europe.

Specifically, my so-called ego trip

So I’m visiting Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin, Frankfurt, Brussels, Paris, Cardiff and London in a three week span. Some of this travel is for myself, some is to meet people I know over there, and some is travelling with friends. Talk about hectic! but what is this about ego?

Simple really…

In Copenhagen: Nemoland Cafe
Amsterdam: e-Nemo science museum. (Also a Nemo B&B which I cannot afford this trip!)
Brussels: Nemo33 pool and Slumberland bookshops

It explain the synchronicity one step further with regards to Nemo33 – do I have to detail just how old I am right now, or do you think you can guess?

Now naturally I will try to jump online and give updates as possible, but no guarantees…