Barcelona

Checked out another Asian restaurant this Friday. The menu contains a selection of Korean, Thai and Malaysian dishes. I went for the lunch menu again, which was a Laksa Lemak soup as starter and a merluza with sweet sauce. The soup was nice, the merluza rather bland. The deserts were the usual yoghurt/flan/cake selection, so I went for a coffee. Because they are one of my favourite dishes I also ordered Thai spring rolls. These are served cold and show their ingredients through their translucent rice skin. Very nice and I will be back to see if the other a la carte dishes are as good. ...

Last week I finally checked out Bembi. It is supposed to be one of the few good Indian restaurants in Barcelona. As with Chinese restaurants it seems to be very difficult to find a good one in the rather large selection of Indian restaurants. I went for the lunch menu, which probably doesn’t represent the overall quality because it is rather cheap at about 14€. The restaurant itself is nicely decorated and non-smoking. ...

Once in the while I do something I haven’t done for a while and get surprised by how much fun it is. Today I wanted to get the ITV (Spanish motorcycle inspection), which has been overdue for a while. I didn’t do it because I haven’t used it for a while and can’t used it because I didn’t have the ITV. Turns out that I needed an appointment, so I run some errands. I got a new zoo membership card and cancelled my old gym. This took me with the motorbike down and along the beach. The weather was beautiful and it was reasonable warm. I saw the beach, smelled the sea and felt the Barcelona air in my face. ...

by boite-en-valise A new year means new resolutions. But first a quick look back at the ones from last year. On the fail side: I didn’t loose weight, neither did I use my motorcycle more or took a lot more advantage of Barcelona. Success on: sorting out my music collection, travelling somewhere new, doing more programming and blogging a bit more. ...

Now that another decade comes to an end, it is time for me to see if the ten years really were worth the effort. Overall it seems to have been more pain than was strictly necessary. 2000 - it all started quite nice. I just turned 30 and was living in London, just got together with my girlfriend and working for guideguide a very nice start-up which was going quite well at the time. One highlight of the year was a trip to OSCON in California, where I witnessed the beginning of Perl6, which seemed brilliant at the time and now appears a bit pointless. ...