Good Morning, I am sittting in my friend's spare room in Brooklyn, watching the rain and trying to convince myself that I want to go back to sleep. It is 07.00am but my body is convinced that it's nearly lunch time. The flight yesterday dragged on, I didn't open my book once and watched both movies that I didn't really want to see. Luckily for me there were very few people on the flight so I could stretch out across two seats. The bathroom nearest to me had a door which stuck so that you had to throw your whole weight [View Full Entry]

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Hi All Sorry It has been a while since our last blog, but things are a bit crazy in NY and you only get short times on computers. Well we have made it to New York and survived our first week here. It certainly is a city of contrasts. Both Fiona and I were a bit drained when we first arrived, so it took us a few days to adjust to the city after spending so long in the countryside. New York is everything you expect it to be, busy, noisy with a lot of different things going on. This week [View Full Entry]

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A long weekend in NYC, a chance to see Nicole, Jack/John, and Nat. The highlight was seeing Doctor Atomic at the Met on Saturday night. Nicole had heard some time ago that the benefactors had bought 200 of the best seats in the house, for sale to the public on the day of the show, for $30 each. We got in line at around noon, tickets went on sale at 2pm. Since Nicole can't walk much (blown knee), we sat & chatted for 2 hours, which we would have done anyway (probably in a park or somewhere other than sitting on [View Full Entry]

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Our first day... First stop - FAO of course! Piper has been looking forward to this for years. She's saved her allowance, highlited the latest catalog, and is ready to see this wonderland for herself. Her enthusiasm wanes a bit when she realizes we intend to walk there. She perks up when we hit those magical doors. [View Full Entry]

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Hi everybody who is still reading this blog. ☺ In the last several months since my last blog entry I have received a steady stream of comments from all sorts of folks asking how I am doing. It is always so cool to get comments. All of these comments also had in common one phrase: “I see it has been a long time since you have wrote.” And that it has. A long time. I am back in New York, New York, back in the US for the first time in almost eight months. With all of the traveling and moving [View Full Entry]

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We arrived at JFK airport after a slow, turbulent flight from Iceland. At JFK we finally got in a yellow taxi, Brooklyn bound. The driver did everything he could to get us lost, but with GIS maps in the back seat we fought back pretty hard and managed to get to our BnB despite his deliberate turnoffs and detours. The guesthouse is great; a warm cosy brownstone house on 38th St in Flatbush, Brooklyn. We found out that famous people who were born in this area include Busta Rhymes, Shaggy, Barbara Streisand (?) and Notorious BIG. Wahoo! Waking up the next [View Full Entry]

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Hallo iedereen Een update vanuit mijn nieuwe stulpje in Williamsburg, nu dan echt vanuit mijn stulpje want ik heb internet gesjeffed, dus er kan weer geupdate worden met foto's. Allereerst wil ik natuurlijk even laten weten hoe het is gegaan met mijn rechtzaak tegen mijn oude huisgenoot/landlord. Na een dag van mijn contracten en e-mails op orde krijgen ben ik naar de rechtbank gegaan, alwaar ik het Amerikaanse rechtsysteem eens aan het werk heb kunnen zien in de small claims. Na dat ik naar de rechtzaal was verwezen werden alle zaken van die avond opgenoemd en stonden aanklager en aange [View Full Entry]

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Hallo iedereen Het is alweer enige tijd geleden dat ik nog eens geupdate heb, en er is natuurlijk weer een hoop gebeurd. Doch zal ik het kort proberen te houden door het gebrek aan foto's en ander visueel materiaal. Allereerst ben ik een weekje in Tennessee geweest, Nashville en Noxville heb ik aangedaan samen met mijn maat James. Na een hartelijk ontvangst met de grooste fles kalua die ik ooit heb gezien zijn we een week in de watten gelegd door zijn familie in de vorm van "home cooking" en alle faciliteiten die tot onze beschikking stonden zoals unlimited gebruik van [View Full Entry]

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Today we saw the Ting Tings, Black Moth Super Rainbow, and MGMT play a free gig at the McCarren Park Pool in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. We waited outside in a thunderstorm for nearly 2 hours, but once we got inside the music made it all worthwhile! [View Full Entry]

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Well I didn't get around to talking about the meaning of the title of the last entry, and this one. When I left San Francisco I flew to Philadelphia to hang out with the crew of fake Aussies in West Philly that we'd met at Ida. Zemmo picked me up from the airport and we got lost for a while before heading to Bezza's house - the Powerhouse. All the communal houses in Philly seem to have names, it's a great idea. So we hung out at the Powerhouse while Beth made cherry pie and we drank tea in the heat. [View Full Entry]

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