My favourites:

Dim Sum in China Town with Thian & Robert, Tobias (& Yumiko not there, sorry), and Malayan paste. The copy of the menu card contains the Cantonese name.

Now on the train to...

Bicycle parking at Amsterdam Centraal

This is a three level bicycle parking garage at the station. Its quite impressive. Imagine parking here in a different place every day. Where is your bike? :-)

Leaving for Amsterdam

In the morning I went to the Turkish/Marrockan (?) market. Had their coffee with sweetened streamed milk. Now I'm of on the train.

Arguably Brussels is the centre of new Europe

I won't argue for the validity of this statement. But after the drab Manchester Brussels looks nice. For some reason I feel safer. Its an old city. Not very modern. Quite compact centre. So it has a bit of charm. I visited to good friends. I will see then again. Hopefully earlier than another 8 years.

I had no internet on my phone in Brussels. The hotel charges for internet. Usually those deals aren't worth it. Cheaper to get internet on your phone. I've got 7 SIM cards now. USA is there one country that doesn't have descent deal for prepaid data. Its the mobile back waters of the world.

Manchester

It rained. But good to see Mareen! and drink Lai Cha, and speak proper English while drinking good ciders!

Nottingham University

Gave a talk at Nottingham University, while visiting my friend here. The buildings are a bit funny looking. An interesting fact, it seems, all over Europe there are plenty of asian students. This is a large contrast to what I've been used to. I think it is very positive. It'll be interesting to see how Asia develops.

Me and Robin Hood

I'm stopping by in Nottingham talking to Robin Hood and meeting old time friend Henrik from the university. Add visit a pub which partly is built into the mountain, since year 1189!

Sometimes things turn upside down

Yesterday when walking from my pub appointment I crossed a bridge over the river. There was a guy who looked somewhat familiar. I chatted and turned out he was from San Francisco. Even more interestingly, he asked me if I knew Brian. Yes. We'd meet before!

Had a nice dinner and then a visit to a local pub. Unexpected, but these things keep happening...

Cambridge

I'm now having some tea in Cambridge. All-in-all, I'm not sure that I'm too overwhelmed by Cambridge. Not sure why. The city as such has nice buildings, with colleges surrounding it, but it feels very scattered. And my feets hurts. Long walk everywhere.

But I had lasagne today and a good local cider.

Pints with Aubrey de Grey in Cambri

I'm currently in Cambridge, UK, having a few pints with Aubrey de Grey. He promotes and does research about aging and how to combat/mitigate/cleanup this. He's quite a character and his beard beats mine.

Byebye Sweden

Now I'm hopping on. Watch my blog to see what I've done and where I go. Http://ozbl.org ask to be added to the mailing list if you want updates on your mail.

Some views from Sweden

I've really been fascinated by the cloud in Sweden, they have interesting shapes. Its not like California that there are almost no clouds, but instead full of it.

Stockholm

Sadly enough, this time I didn't spend to much time in Stockholm, but its one of the most beautiful cities on the world. I especially like the subway.

Wat in Dalarna

In Dalarna I went past this Thai temple (wat). As I arrived at lunch time I was invited to eat there. There are 7 monks. Two from Vietnam. One from Sri Lanka, one from Sweden, and of course from Thailand.

Its next to a lake so quite nice. Its near an old iron (?) extraction area with nice ruins.