In Bruge

Bruge has been referred to as the Venice of the north, due to it’s plethora of canals, and the buildings that are right on the edge of the water.
I don’t really agree. Sure, it’s got plenty of canals, and plenty of buildings right on the edge, but it’s not like Venice.

Day 1 in Brussels

After a smooth, quick ride on the Eurostar, through relatively flat, green farm lands of france and Belgium, we got to Brussels Midi, and jumped on a local train to De Brouckere. The local train was kind of like a tram, more than a train, but ran underground. Very clean.

St Pancras

So this morning was somewhat of a clusterfk. No trains on the jubilee line.

It's almost time...

We've been in our little apartment here for almost 5 months now. But the time has come. It's homelessness bound.

Yay for server migration.

So yesterday, I got another day of work with a managed services company. The emailed job description was 8 hours from 1p-9p, and involved working in a team of 4 to deconstruct a set of 10 racks at an IBM data centre

Expatting can be hard.

Sure - it seems like a fabulous idea. You're half way around the world. You claim your expenses to decrease your tax. You're experiencing all sorts of wonderful new things, life has changed, all of that.

But Expatting can be hard.

Changes

I've been a little bereft on posts recently. Mainly because I've been lazy about writing them, but they are all being backdated appropriately, so keep on checking.

I've been spending time on doing a little bit of web design, and I sat and passed an exam. I'm now a Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional: Systems Administrator (MCITP:SA) to add to my mcsa certification, which means I've got something to show at least for the past few months. Considering I took the exam on the spur of the minute, having not done heaps of study for it, I'm quite pleased that I passed. It's been a while since I did the mcsa course.

travel insurance pays out finally!

So before we left, we arranged our travel insurance for a year with Down under insurance. It's essential, ya know? and we figured, if we only need it once, it's worth it, so we paid for the extra "no-excess" thinggy. Well, it came in handy. When we think about it, it was even relatively cheap.

Thank you Accor.

This is a little offtrack - I know we still have lots to post about our Cruisaversarymoon, but this needs a side track.

Thanks to Accor hotels, we've booked something like 40 of our 59 nights over the Summer, at an Average cost of $AUD74 per night.

Of wireless and hotels

Call me pedantic, but finding wireless at hotels in Italy is proving to be a bit of a challenge.
(Rant follows...)