Archive for the 'Real Life' Category

A Bite of the Big Apple

Sunday, 26th of September 2010

The week before last I flew to New York with two fellow workers on a business trip.  We arrived at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Thursday about noon and directly went into a meeting with a customer. After a very long day (I had to get up at 4:00 am UK time) I was [...]

Fifth anniversary

Thursday, 8th of October 2009

Five years ago I became the luckiest man on the planet when Silke married me on the castle Sababurg in Germany. It was a wonderful time ever since and I’m looking forward to more years with my lovely wife. We will celebrate our anniversary in proper style at Restaurant 22 this evening.

A spot of Snow

Monday, 2nd of February 2009

Today for the first time since Silke and I moved to the south east of England we had snow worth mentioning. It started to snow yesterday evening and didn’t stop before noon. As such heavy snowfall is unusual for this part of the country it caused a massive chaos. The treacherous conditions on the roads [...]