505 is having a busy month

So it has been a busy few weeks here in, or rather not in, apartment 505. The tour kicked off with a working visit to Madrid where I was holding a workshop for MS Spain. Hege came along for the weekend and we hooked up with our eSpanish mate Ricardo.

Have to say that out of the European  cities I have visited so far,
Madrid is my favourite. I like the food too, truth be told.

Then came Easter with all the glorious  free holidays which it
entails. Well 505 has been promising Perchtoldsdorferstrasse 13 a
visit for ages, so we did. I always forget how much I enjoy my big
brothers company. We had our differences as kids, me being second in line and probably really annoying, but we are almost grown up these days. Anyway so we ate schnitzel and bowled and took a trip across the closest border, to Slovakia.

Yes we travelled over the old iron curtain, to Bratislava. The first
thing that crossed my mind, which also used to happen when I went to Prague and Budapest, was that we had bent the old space time continuum and gone back a few decades. I don't know what those old soviets has in mind though. Yes everything was shared "equally" among all men, but an equal slice of nothing other than a hefty amount of bronze statues of communist fellows still sucks in my books.

 

Lovely city though, Bratislava. And on putting the slightly
dilapidated look aside, there seemed to be a crapload of renovation going on. Yes it needs it and you can still tell that the red flags of yesteryear lacked upkeep skills, I recon given a decade, eastern Europe is going to be giving London, Paris and Madrid a good run for their tourist spending money.

So what now? Well the Amsterdamage tour kicks off on Friday and truth be told I am worried. I just can't handle like I once could. Don't get me wrong, I will be smacking it as hard as can be, but I am just not sure Amsterdam will be any the worse for wear. I on the other hand will be needing my soft pillow and sleep come Sunday eve.

Then it's Milan with Mr Gates. Not sure I will be seeing much more of Italy than the MS offices, but ho-hum I will get there one day.

And so dear diary, that's why I have been, well partly, so quiet. Am also kind of playing a fair amount of xbox...