Tales of my city

I woke up and checked my emails, I had one from my credit card, stating that Amazon had charged me with a purchase over night. What? I was asleep… Then it dawned on me: my download of the latest Tales of the city novel had arrived. I read the Tales in 2005 I think. A […] Read More

Phone issues

I have phone issues! And this post is going to be a bit of a rant about efficiency issues in South America. In each country it has been a struggle to get a pre-paid phone chip, or to get it charged. In Brazil, I finally got a pre-paid chip from Claro, which worked pretty well. […] Read More

Switching to summer time

And while Europe preps itself to win an hour of sleep, but loose an hour of daylight in the process, and is heading into the dark ages… I just switched my clock to daylight savings time!! Beat that 😉   I figured out that I will be doing this all along this trip, as I […] Read More

The spammers are here…

… so they have discovered my blog and keep posting nonsense in the comments. I had to turn on the moderation. So whenever you make a comment now, I’ll have to approve it first, sorry. And work my way through heaps of spam messages. Maybe I should use a captcha? Thoughts on this? In the comments, please […] Read More

Southern skies

I’m confused. It’s all different. The sun is in the north and runs the opposite way I expect it. The moon: way too high in the sky for what I’m used for, right on top of me. It’s a half moon right now, but not half as in left-right, but tilted, so it looks like a […] Read More