Overall - enjoying some time off, and starting to ride my real road bike so the world just got better, and colder.
Update from Amsterdam and a picture from todays bike ride.
- Found house, but do not move in for another 2 weeks. Next to a canal, in the downtown area. Happy - Happy, plus have a spare room.
- Sold the Subaru in the US and brought two Amsterdam bikes and go everywhere on them. Biking back from a date night with Leah in the rain. We feel like locals...
- Started to ride my road bike in the fog (see today's pic!). Fog + just above freezing = cold Hamish
- Completed the NOLS Wilderbness First Responder first aid course. that was 10 days in Sweden. a great course.
- Have not got a phone yet. Need more "official" paperwork, that will arrive sometime in the next month or so. Not having a smart phone is "liberating" to start with, but am now in the "I am tired of this game stage". Getting bank accounts, visa etc is time consummmminggg....
- Getting used to unemployment - maybe it is time i started to look for something. Hard to believe it has not even been a month since I left the US.
- Off to Barcelona this week for the US Thanks Giving. Yes we are in Europe, but Leah works for a US company, and they are shutting down. We will bank both the US holidays and the EU ones, especially the long summer holidays.
- Missing the sunshine, but getting used to the fog/rain/cloud of AMS
That is Amsterdam. Not sure where i will be skiing this year, but I might go across and see my brother and at the same time try and get a few days in the Alps. It would be a shame not to as we are based here.
Hope all is well, and i hope you are getting a few days on the slopes.
Cheers
Hamish
Update from Amsterdam and a picture from todays bike ride.
- Found house, but do not move in for another 2 weeks. Next to a canal, in the downtown area. Happy - Happy, plus have a spare room.
- Sold the Subaru in the US and brought two Amsterdam bikes and go everywhere on them. Biking back from a date night with Leah in the rain. We feel like locals...
- Started to ride my road bike in the fog (see today's pic!). Fog + just above freezing = cold Hamish
- Completed the NOLS Wilderbness First Responder first aid course. that was 10 days in Sweden. a great course.
- Have not got a phone yet. Need more "official" paperwork, that will arrive sometime in the next month or so. Not having a smart phone is "liberating" to start with, but am now in the "I am tired of this game stage". Getting bank accounts, visa etc is time consummmminggg....
- Getting used to unemployment - maybe it is time i started to look for something. Hard to believe it has not even been a month since I left the US.
- Off to Barcelona this week for the US Thanks Giving. Yes we are in Europe, but Leah works for a US company, and they are shutting down. We will bank both the US holidays and the EU ones, especially the long summer holidays.
- Missing the sunshine, but getting used to the fog/rain/cloud of AMS
That is Amsterdam. Not sure where i will be skiing this year, but I might go across and see my brother and at the same time try and get a few days in the Alps. It would be a shame not to as we are based here.
Hope all is well, and i hope you are getting a few days on the slopes.
Cheers
Hamish
