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Our wee visit to Prague, Czech Republic

Chris — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 21:29:42 +0000

Prague is one of those places that had been on my list to visit while I’m here in Europe and a few months ago I finally got to see the place. And finally some months later I have gotten around to posting some photos from our last trip out of Spain to Prague in the Czech Republic. Very nice place to visit. (Recommend it while your in Europe) The locals were nice, not as nice as Holland and not so many understand english either. At least the hotel staff spoke english. Everywhere Czech is spoken of course and we didn’t understand a word of it. Seems like a difficult language. Great beer, what they say about Czech beer being one of the best is 100% true. Very nice and cheap too.

Anyway here are just some snaps from our visit. I hope everyone is well. We are going fine!

Happy New Year !!

Chris — Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:21:03 +0000

Happy new Year to all our family and friends out there. Not much is happing, were still in Spain and I been working hard over Christmas and new years. Not allowed any time off yet.. So all I had was Xmas day off. I even worked today..someone’s got to do it. Other than that nothing much is new, I hope everyone is well and had a great Christmas and New Years break.

Chris & Inma

Weekend in Amsterdam

Chris — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:10:10 +0000

Last weekend we were lucky enough to get over to Amsterdam for 3 days. Just a 2 hour 10 minute flight from Valencia to Amsterdam. Amsterdam is a lovely city with nice architecture, canals though out the city, plenty of history and quite a few museums to look at. The weather wasn’t too bad. It did rain a bit on our last day there. We did the touristy things one does. A canal boat tour, the Vincent van Gogh museum, the main art museum of Amsterdam with many paintings of Rembrandt etc, Madam Tussauds wax museum and a general look around the city. And of course a walk through the interesting red light district.

Bikes are everywhere in Amsterdam!

Not much traffic in Amsterdam, because everyone there goes about there ways in bicycle. You have to be careful as a few times we were almost run down. The bikes seem to have the right of way over pedestrians. Next to the train station there is even a bike parking lot. With 10,000 or more bikes its crazy. And there all the old style bikes with only one gear normally.

More photos of Amsterdam are in the Photo Album.

Bulls to the Sea

Chris — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:44:24 +0000

Its festival time here again in Denia, Spain and one of the attractions during the time in Summer here is the “Bous a la Mar / Toros a la Mar” or Bulls to the sea. Today I went along for look and took a few snaps and recorded some video so you can see what its all about. To sum it up they run the bulls down the main street here and long into a small area by the port. Where later the locals try to entice the bulls to jump into the sea.

And no I didn’t run in front of the bulls or jump in the ring…I’m not mad!

Alinghi Successfully Defend the Americas Cup

Chris — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:44:27 +0000

Alinghi Successfully Defend the Americas Cup 5-2, Sadly Team New Zealand didn’t take the cup back home losing to Alinghi today 5-2…Nevermind, Second place is still good and something to be proud of. In Two years they will have another shot at the cup and with this years experience and lessons learnt I’m sure we will be back with a faster boat and more experienced team to challenge Alinghi Again.

Lets hope too the rule will be put in place that a teams crew members must be from that country. Example:

NZ92 New Zealand - Only NZ crew members.
AUS84 - Australia - Only AU crew members

That way we will have much improved odds haha

However I doubt that will happen, its all about money now….

Boo Hoo - We lost! ;( Next time Alinghi….next Time