Work visit to Stavanger and family visit at Copenhagen

Stavanger 2007

How to get rid of telemarketing in two minutes.

Press play to hear the best and funniest way to get rid of that annoying tele marketing caller

Michelle's baby shower

Michelle's baby shower

Nicole in New York

New York (Kinetic Partners)

Gold diggers in Sunbury ?

Late Sunday evening, some thieves stole 4 material bags from a small factory in Walton on Thames, just next to Sunbury on Thames.
The 4 bags contains cyanide and is used in some chemical reaction to modify metal. Maybe the thieves thought they could break the ancient secrets around alchemism and start producing gold ?
No I think not. It is just another day in Sunbury.

Struck by disappointment the thieves must have escaped by train from Upper Halliford station, which has been closed today.

Upper Halliford train station is the concrete slap just next to Acergy's office building. So when I say closed, I mean two police cars were parked on the pavement of the walkway leading from the bridge and beneath.

Click here to read article from BBC News

The neighbours grass is always greener

Only minutes after Nicole has landed from her business trip to the ever vibrant New York do we dig out a travel guide from the New York Times, describing how the quality life is lived in the green and peacefull Whiskey Belt, stretching from North Copenhagen and 40 kilometres up along the coast line to Helsinore.

This is the area where I have grown up and I recognise his desciptions very well.

The thing is, having tried that, there are other things here in this world to explore so maybe there is an adventurous New Yorker that want's to swap green card ?!

Click here to read the article from New York Times.

The photo is of Arne Jacobsen's Bella Vista at Klampenborg. Arne Jacobsen is taken a large credit for the beauty of the design along the coast line.

Photos from our stay in Rye (and a few extras)

Rye & more

www.copetown.net

Finally there was sparetime to look back at the old domain name http://www.copetown.net.

After we've got this blog I have deemed it double work to maintain both the old website and the new blog.

There are significant advantages of the blog as it is easy to update and enables for posting stuff from e.g. work or BlackMail.

The copetown domain name is however Nicole and my personal brand and it would be a pitty not to utilise it. (we still use the personal email accounts and so on).

Now when you enter the http://www.copetown.net domain name, you will automatically be re-directed to this site.

Nicole however liked the rotating pictures very much and hence they have been embedded on this site. Best of both worlds.

Snow in Plettenberg bay

550 km east of Cape Town lies the quaint but in the sumer time rediculously busy town of Plettenberg bay.

The observant holiday makers will remember this is were Bernadette let me in on her holiday enterprise by enabling it for online shopping.

Something tell me, I should have kept the domain and sold it for a mint, as the new owner of it seems to make good bucks out of it : "The luxury Bed & Breakfast with exciting views"

Anyways this story is about how we were there only at the end of April, when the weather was absolutely fantastic.

Now check how the snow is covering the town at seaside level... (Right picture is a reference as to what is SHOULD have looked like, if you ask me).

Airport security on its highest

The trip to attend the Hyperion conference in Lyon, turned out to test
my patience to the largest extent...

Arriving at the airport and walking through the standard security, I
was pulled aside to participate in their ongoing experiment, the "pose
nude machine". Partially intimidated by being in the securityarea, I
told the officual, I was NOT happy about this. To this he answered
that is fine, just sign on a refusal form. I wonder how many similar
to me does not realise this is a test and let their fatrolls blossom
in the middle of the airport...

Anyways this was only the start. Wait for the rest. It is priceless