Travelling: June 2003 Archives
The car has been thoroughly checked, my colleague has been informed of ongoing issues at my job,... I guess I am almost ready for holidays. There are only three things left to arrange before I will dissapear for two weeks.
First at home. Tomorrow I will clean our house and do some shoppings (we only have yoghurt and beer in the fridge!). I also have to ask our neighbours to take care about our plants; they are very thirsty with this weather.
Then I have Fimcap. I need to finish the on-line edition of the Link magazine June edition. Besides that I need to activate a page I already created on which you can read live news from the World Camp, a Fimcap activity for youth animators in the Philipines. During the world camp, participants will write their stories on this page. Photos will be added later by the webmasters (of which I am one), since editing pictures, uploading them and creating the right HTML code is too difficult. I could have used some advanced blogging tool, but decided that for the moment NewsPro will do the job.
And finally I have to prepare the trip. We decided to go by car to Croatia, with a stop in Milano to visit Roberto. And that is about all we decided and have prepared so far. We don't know which road to take, what we can visit and where to stay in Croatia. I hope that MJ was able to buy a copy of the Lonely Planet guide, because than I will have good faith in our trip.
Anyway, I am almost ready. The next two weeks it will be very quiet on this web site!
The temperature is around 35°C for over a week now, during the day you hear a lot of complains about the heat, in the evening people live on the cool streets. Everybody runs to the beach in the weekend, Lleida is getting empty. And not only here, Russell Beattie made the same observations in his entry Small Spanish Towns.
The holiday season is approaching, so we are thinking about what to do. We have two short periods to get away: the first two weeks of July and the first two weeks of September. We were planning to visit the Netherlands in July together with my in-laws (they never went abroad), but we are not sure if they recovered enough from their car accident. If not, we will try to go in September. The other short holiday we plan to take our car and drive to Croatia, with a short stop in Milano to visit our friends Roberto and Francesca. Maybe we will also stop in Venetia. Besides travelling we also want to have some days to stay at home and relax, since lately we hardly have time to be at home.
Then there are also some people visiting us. The most important ones are my parents, who will be here on August 12--19. My mother has not seen our finished house yet; the last time she was here was in July 2002, when we just started the reconstruction of our house. My father has visted us two times more, mainly to work in our house. The truth is that we haven't made a lot of progress since he last visited us. Therefore we plan to finish some more small things, so my father doesn't get the impression that we don't do anything (keeping up appearances)...
Yesterday Roberto phoned us from Italy to tell that he and Francesca are going to spend some time in the begining of August in Catalonia, and surely will visit us. Yes, we are definitely looking forward to the summer!
