Garbage collection

One thing that has been a bit of a mystery for us since we arrived in Bath, was the lack of garbage cans. Normally (here normally is referred to as it is in DK and IT) there is either some big things on the street or each house has one. This is not the case in England, here you have one collection once a week, and you simply just drop your garbage in black bags on the street. Then there is a bucket which you can ask for, which you put all your recyclable garbage like paper, glass ect. Strange solution for a otherwise so orderly country!

Here is the trunk that collects everything which is not in black plastic bags, you can see on the picture how they are ignoring the black bags.



But you cant say that England is not a service country, when even the recyclable garbage is sorted for you!

Going English

When in England do as the English. Well actually I already got my Muesli and coffee at home, so I thought to avoid getting too much coffee I better stick with the tea at least for the first hour.

I moved to England, by the way!

Can You Juggle?

The other morning something strange happened! I had just arrived at work and was turning on my computer, when I hear some commotion in the hallway, and 5-10 colleagues march into my office. The front one with tree balls, the ones for juggling.

Some weeks ago I had been asked to write a CV for an offer we were making for a tender my company was trying to win, so I just sent her the one I had lying around on my home computer (you should always have an updated CV- right!?!). One of the things I had written on it, was that I juggle.

So since I had written it on the CV, I had to show my colleagues that I could do it. Won't say that I did it with style, but I did it... ;-)

Later, after work I had a date with my girlfriend to go and rent bicycles in the centre and go for a bike ride around the historical centre. To look at the spots I was reading about in the "Turen går til Rom" ("The trip is to Rome" Danish guide book), which I had borrowed from a friend. Not that I havent seen the places before, but Rome is beautiful also after 3 years.



Going around on bike in the centre of Rome is pretty cool, because you are pretty fast, and its pretty easy to salmon between the hords of german turists which roam in the streets these days. First stop via Piazza del Popolo (and a shoe shop Sara likes), a place where they make fruit shakse and ice cream just behind Piazza Navona (also had a trip on piazza Navona).



Had a frappe with mango icecream (Frappe is basically a milk shake), which was fantastic, but almost a litre :).

Then on to piazza Pasquino (link) to see one of the talking statues,


via dei Coronari with all its antic shops and a quick wave to Castel Sant'Angelo. Campo de' Fiori, which is now a nice square with small bars and resturant, but only 200 years ago the public execution place, where among many others Giordano Bruno was executed for believing the planet was round, in February, 1600. Giordano is the guy standing in the middle of the piazza.

It requires quite a bit of work to be allowed to take part of the bike sharing program is complicated, as in "please sign these 9 places"- and "write you CPR here"- complicated, but its nice to have the possibility to grab a bike when going around in the centre. For more info on the bike sharing concept go here: link

The Slow Fall of Democracy!

Did they mention that Berlusconi has started libel action against the newspaper for asking him these quistions link

Something serious must have happened

When you see a police car parked like this, you think something bad must have happened. I imagine the car arriving at top speed, making squizi sounds going around the corners while the BABU sound makes everything else quiet, blue lights blinking...

 

But No, they just stopped to go and get a coffee. No wonder nobody follows parking rules when the police - the upholders of the law, doesnt either.

Why not ask somebody who knows

On the bus the other day I say this sign. Even if it is understandable to anybody speaking English what it means:

 
(Sign says "No get off")

But why not run it by somebody who actually knows English, and I'm not talking about translate.google.com here, and make it a nice correct sign. I wish that this country would present itself a bit better

A road trip with a rented car and a dog

Our car is broken, of course it broke in the middle of the night in the middle of nowhere in a not too great street, coming back from a weeding.

Since we were going on yet another roadtrip, we needed a car. So we found a descent offer for a car at Europcar. The only problem now was that our saftybelt-eating-dog had to come too, and we were too cheap to rent a car which either had bars to close him in that back or a big enough trunk to put the dogbox. So the only thing to do was to place him on the back seat under close surveillance, to be sure that he wouldn't start eating something.

He (the dog) actually seemed to like it a lot, to stay up front with the humans, and not in the trunk like usually. At least until I started taking pictures of him.




See nothing but joy and happiness, in the face of that dog:



But I had fun.