Time travelling

I have not blogged nearly as much as I wanted to in the past few months - mainly due to the fact that I was in a different city or country each week and in between my travels and work the posts just kept moving down the list!

Nevertheless, lets get going.

Last time I blogged I was in the year 2012 in Belgium, currently I am somewhere in the mid 1990s or the IT Stone age if you wish -  more commonly known as South-Africa.

Getting to the point, I am thoroughly enjoying my throttled ADSL connection and my struggling 3G modem ;)

In the coming weeks I will do a few flashback posts on where I have been since I last blogged.

Happy 2013!

Luxembourg highlights

 

 

Bruges

We went to Bruges last weekend, and I was expecting the typical Belgium city, based on the cities I've already seen even though Bruges is sometimes called "The Venice of the North", the most romantic city in Belgium etc. Preconceptions aside, it was quite refreshing.

It had , as with the other cities, an abundance of churches and a market square at the center of the city but with the mixture of canals and well preserved buildings it creates a refreshing atmosphere. In a way it's something inbetween Venice and Amsterdam.

Faith

Growing up in a country such as South-Africa, you get used to certain aspects of your country. And over time they stop bothering you and you see them as "normal" everyday behaviour. Placing a cup in a hotel above an unlocked fridge and hoping people will place the money into the cup when they take items from the fridge is about as extreme as optimism can get in South-Africa. In fact it would be frowned upon not to consider someone emptying the entire fridge, taking your cup and its content and even taking the fridge (taking : read stealing).

Because of this mindset after 22 years in South-Africa, this fully functional Japanese system amazes me every time I see it. So call it faith or whatever, but it's still amazing.

Pay as you use system.

I♥Japan :-D

It's almost that time again