Saturday saw the first touch of winter in Warsaw! Quite astonishing that winter has arrived only in mid-January. However, we’ve had a little snow and temperatures are at or below 0°C.
On Sunday I tool a walk on the banks of the Vistula in the south eastern part of the city and took a few snaps of the conditions.
Just a quick wrap up to round out the year – dumplings, cycling, visits to UK and visitors in Poland.
Rembering my grandmother’s Clootie Dumplings, which were generally served around Xmas time, I looked out a recipe and made a dumpling for myself.
The McMillans’ blog has been given a new look with the Weaver Theme by Bruce Wampler – it has many sub-theme options and is very customisable e.g. the random header images – hope you find it attractive. The blog previously used Mystique, which has recently been updated to a ‘light’ version which screwed up the site. While I really liked Mystique as a theme, the way it has been upgraded is rather unfortunate – there is a full version, but it can’t be readily installed through the WordPress Admin utilities. I’ve also dropped Mystique in favour of Weaver on another blog, Project Management Insight – perhaps it’s time to consider the Weaver Plus option as I now have 4 sites using Weaver!
Woke up this morning as a free agent! After deciding last year that I’d semi-retire in 2011 as a sixty year old, I gave notice and my contract terminated on 31 July. Of course, semi-retiral doesn’t exactly mean having nothing to do – just the freedom to do what you enjoy! I’m currently negotiating a part-time (one week a month) consulting contract and have a few of my own ‘projects’ lined up – but more about that later.
On the leisure front, I’ve been watching too much cycling recently – Tour de France on television and Tour de Pologne live here in Warsaw yesterday – and as result I’m looking for a new bike.
Vanessa and I had three and a half days to explore Copenhagen at the last weekend of May – it wasn’t enough to do justice to all the many attractions of the city. This post tells you what we did during our visit and gives some ratings, which hopefully will prove useful to other visitors to Copenhagen.
Our favourite visits, however, were actually outside Copenhagen in nearby Roskilde and Helsingør, which are very accessible by public transport.
