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Passover Abroad (why on earth do I not drink beer?)

While I’m at home, living comfortably at dads, Passover abstinence is a relatively simple affair. Matza is in abundance, the kitchen is familiar and the local availability of produce well known. This is my second Pesach while travelling, the first I was in Israel for the first day. I quickly got out of there because [...]

The Travelling Geek

The Destination: LiberKey Firefox Portable FoxyProxy – Instead of editing host files Uniserver – With a DocumentRoot of c:/temp/www Programmers Notepad – More personal preference than anything else The Journey: The first few weeks I spend trying to travel and keep up some web development were laborious, and some lessons have been learned. I hope [...]

Teotihuacan

Teotihuacan, not only can I now pronounce it but I can spell it too! I’m not really sure what to say about it, it’s just awesome. That and we don’t actually know an awful lot about it. We know it’s old, it was probably started around 200BC though we have no idea by whom. It [...]

Lohr am Main – What do you get if you put and English Jew in a kitchen with a German Palestinian?

Phew! I am exhausted. Physically, mentally, emotionally and nearly spiritually. Not the bad kind of exhausted, burt the fullfilled and ready to rest kind. Also the awful handwriting kind, I’d better make an effort or I’ll never be able to read this in future. I spent a good proportion of my train ride today trying [...]