Eurotrip

I have reached my first destination of this spring's Eurotrip, Edinburgh. So far it’s good to be back here, again. The first day was quite laid back, just hanging around in the ISC and meeting some friends, playing Trivial Pursuit, with unanswerable questions. Later on we had some beers at the new Pubnight in the Greenmantle, quite a nice place, before I headed to a Flat Party with the funny theme 'Safari/Board games. Quite a good day first day... but today it's raining and sunny... so I'm undecided about what to do.

However I'm going to stay here until Wednesday and then flying to Rome to spend (and work) some time in Italy. Thereafter I'm off to Spain. Here is a map with the full route:

Counting days

My last days in Germany and what am I doing?
Right, I'm going to the cinema. Friday night’s movie was 127 Hours. Good adaptation of a real story. It was nicely filmed what emotions were experienced by the main character, while he was trapped in the canyon. But the scene when he cut off his arm was quite bloody, not a good view for everybody.
Overall a quite interesting movie but it's not very likely that this will become the winning movie of this years Academy Awards.
The movie I saw last night, The King's Speech, is much more likely to win. A brilliant movie, with a very interesting story. Furthermore the main characters are very good personated. I would recommend this movie, even for those who are not interested in monarchy.

Today’s plan is going to get my backpack ready, just not so sure how. My limit is 20kg, including equipment and clothing for 7 weeks and 2 field trips... Let's see how that is going to work out.

Soccer choreography

I came across some very good and funny goal celebrations by a soccer club from Iceland, Starjan FC. First of all, there is the angler catching a fish. Then there is the human bicycle and the depiction of giving birth. But the most hilarious one might the one of a toilet. Sorry, for the sound, but the vids are in German.

As a bonus here is another one from England, the Boxer.

So much about this, now I will go back to plan the upcoming weeks. Some exciting journeys across Europe are about to come up. More about this will follow soon!

Solar Eclipse

To start the year of, here are some pictures I took during today's solar eclipse. Unfortunately the quality is not that good, as weather conditions were quite bad, foggy and cloudy.

Rise over the city

Taken with a sunfilter

Zoom with filter

Zoom through clouds and fog

Late Night Shows

Why don't they exist in Germany?
It's not like we don't have them, but not as many as in the States, for example... one could say I could watch them online, but nope, that's not possible. Germany and probably whole Europe is not in the right geographical region, so streams or blocked... stupid. What is that good for?

Anyways, here is one clip from 'The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'. A segment about Christmas presents from the 99cent store. Maybe you'll find some good ideas for this years Xmas... so no need to buy presents at last minute. Here is part 1 and here part 2. I really recommend watching part 2 till the end, and then you will see the ultimate Christmas gift ;-)

While I was in Canada last year I found a new show, which I think is very funny, 'The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson'. Big plus point about the show, Craig Ferguson is Scottish (well at least born and immigrated to the US). For me having been there, this is even double-cool. A funny Late Night Show, with a Scottish-English speaking host. To give you guys an idea what I'm talking about, you can watch a short segment HERE.

Before I forget this: Happy New Year!

International Chistmas

Well as Chstmas is usally quite boring, cause there is nothing to do... besides having the family around... Well, this year is literary nothing to do, cause you can't get anywhere with 25cm of snow blocking every road.
So I thought, well I have a lot of time, why not make some food. I decided to make international food for the Holidays. Starting of on Friday night with Japanese Chicken Teriyaki. Saturday went on with Raclette, okay not much to do there, and simple sausages with pasta for dinner. Today lunch had a British topic with Steak Ale Pie and for desert Canadian pistachio pudding, and for dinner it's going to be Mexican Chilli. So much about food and Christmas.

So much about the Christmas days here. Well this much time allowed me at least to plan a bit what I wanna do next year, study or vacation wise... Some interesting projects might come up, let's see how realisable they are, but 2011 could become a very interesting and international year, even more than 2010....

Merry X-mas everybody!!!

Awards and Scotland

Seems like I wasn't so bad about choosing which movies I watch at the VIFF. My highest rated movie 'WASTE LAND' actually won the first price! I can just reapeat myself at this point... go, watch it!!!

Full list of awards etc. can be found here.

So far life in Germany isn't exciting at all. However, I managed to get back to Scotland a week ago. Was nice to see people again, thx to everybody who showed up at my 'party'.
It felt slightly strange to be back there... not being away for long, but it's not the same, with a lot of people missing now...
Due to lucky circumstance there was also an concert of the Goo Goo Dolls in Glasgow that weekend. Good show, they even played a song I didn't know... who thought that was possible?

Now I can't wait for thursday to come to escape this boringness here... Barcelona is waiting, at least for a couple of days. Seems like this going to be the last trip of the year... Hopefully not...