Ice skating in Nymphenburg

January 16th, 2010

No need for a long post – just click on the image there to see some pictures from a nice little outing we did today.  After over a week of sub-zero temperatures, the canals have frozen, and are full of people skittering around on ice skates and playing “ice stock sport” – a Bavarian equivalent [...]

Kodak imposes copyright

December 27th, 2009

For Christmas I ordered some photo prints (original photos, taken by me) from an online mail-order service.  The quality was great, and they arrived 2 days after submitting the order, but one thing bugged me about them – on the back of each photo was a watermark from Kodak, advertising that this photo has been [...]

Great customer service: Primus

October 27th, 2009

Too often blogs are all about complaining, what went wrong, which company screwed you over… Time for something different: I had a problem with my camping cooker: a bad soldered joint on the base broke rendering the cooker useless.  I was especially annoyed because the two year guarantee had just ran out.  Still – I [...]

Alaska roadtrip

October 22nd, 2009

After a few months, I’ve finally got round to putting together a selection of our Alaska photos online!  It’s too big of a story to write here… We saw whales, moose, bears, eagles, a wolf and lots more impressive wildlife We climbed mountains, walked on glaciers. We had great weather – it only rained one [...]