When no one wants to listen…
Beautiful. Finally we get some drama out of European politics. Yesterday, the European parliament forced José Manuel Barroso to withdraw his proposed commissioners team. How did we get to this? Ask Rocco…
Enter Rocco Buttiglione: full-time religious zealot, writer of papal encyclicals and big mate with the pope. Nothing odd, then, when such a human makes […]
Wow! What a night… An enormous bunch of hippies, anti-globalists, lefties and others congregated to the SE1 in what revealed to be an epic party. The main room and dance floor was featuring a great techno sub-genre known as “Psych-Trance” (thanks for Dean for giving me the name). The other rooms, and there were plenty, […]
Today, I took a day off to attend the Daily Mail Ski Show. Weekdays have the obvious advantage of not being hoarded by visitors, therefore meeting and chatting with the various professionals was far easier and informative.
It’s the first time I attend a ski show in Europe. The first thing I noticed was the amount […]
Yesterday I had dinner with Karine, who came to visit for a few days from Paris. We have been to The Angelic, one of my favourite pubs in Islington: it has a nice atmosphere, avoids being stupidly loud and its food is rather upmarket solidly setting it in the “gastropub” category.
As expected, the evening was […]
It took two days, one evening, over 15 hours of skating, and near-hypothermia under the freezing winds of London but I finally managed to snatch the ICP qualification. I am now a fully qualified skate instructor! Yuppie!
Whether I will use this to actually spread my skating knowledge to the masses is still to be seen, […]