Monday 30 June 2008
Friday 20 June 2008
Planes, trains and spaghetti
I have travelled quite a lot, in Europe at least, but never have I had such a stressful nor disastrous trip as my most recent to Venice, Italy.
I don't know whether I am lucky to be finally waiting in the airport lounge for the return trip, or unlucky that I had such a hard time to get here. My glass is generally half-full so I'll go for the first option.
It should have been a nice week at Ada Europe, a small conference for people who care that software works correctly, in a beautiful city and lots of good food.
Instead, this trip involved manning a booth without a booth (at first at least), flooding (in Venice!), a projector that broke just before I gave a technical presentation (yes, I dictated source code and waved graphs with my arms), missing the last train of the day, being stranded on a motorway (on foot) three miles from the hotel at 1am and carrying a 30kg box from Venice to Mestre on a 30'C day.
However, the food was indeed good and apparently the presentation was actually quite memorable, there's certainly a novelty about an oral code review.
This trip also broke the jinx of the emergency exit...on Easyjet you get to choose your own seat.
I don't know whether I am lucky to be finally waiting in the airport lounge for the return trip, or unlucky that I had such a hard time to get here. My glass is generally half-full so I'll go for the first option.
It should have been a nice week at Ada Europe, a small conference for people who care that software works correctly, in a beautiful city and lots of good food.
Instead, this trip involved manning a booth without a booth (at first at least), flooding (in Venice!), a projector that broke just before I gave a technical presentation (yes, I dictated source code and waved graphs with my arms), missing the last train of the day, being stranded on a motorway (on foot) three miles from the hotel at 1am and carrying a 30kg box from Venice to Mestre on a 30'C day.
However, the food was indeed good and apparently the presentation was actually quite memorable, there's certainly a novelty about an oral code review.
This trip also broke the jinx of the emergency exit...on Easyjet you get to choose your own seat.
Sunday 1 June 2008
The best pizza
Despite what the Italians say, the best pizza I have ever eaten was a Hoi-sin Duck pizza.
This pizza is basically your typical Chinese restaurant aromatic crispy duck (with hoi-sin sauce, spring onion on cucumber) on a pizza base (instead of the pancakes) with coriander and a light touch of cheese.
I had it at Felicini's Bakewell and thoroughly recommend it!
This pizza is basically your typical Chinese restaurant aromatic crispy duck (with hoi-sin sauce, spring onion on cucumber) on a pizza base (instead of the pancakes) with coriander and a light touch of cheese.
I had it at Felicini's Bakewell and thoroughly recommend it!
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