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All of this vacationing has made me really lazy. I really haven’t been accomplishing anything for many weeks now and this causes me to feel a bit anxious. It’s a funny thing really. I relax the best when I have something to do. Just sitting on my ass doesn’t seem like an option.

Yet still I have problems getting stuff started. I have one Symbian OS coding project which progresses really slowly. Also, I keep getting some light pressure from my wife to finally start the home multimedia center thing going on. Currently the only way to record anything from TV is this old VCR and since Finland is going to be all digital really soon, this is something that would be nice to do. I don’t want to buy a DVB recorder since my own MythTV box seems more appealing.

Then there’s the next Nordic Underground Digital movie production which I feel is not faring all that well currently since the vacation time keeps us from finalising the filming.

Then there’s the travel journal thing that I’ve been promising to do for some time now.

Then there’s a ton of small repairs to the house and all sorts of improvements. I totally need to get stuff done since most of this stuff will get more and more difficult to do when work starts in August. I think I will have a hard time adjusting to the office life after this much vacation.

Hi all, and warm welcome from Venice.

Our tour to Italy is nearing to it’s end, it’s still two days in Venice and then it’s time to go home.

It has been a nice journey and like I promised I have kept a travel journal which I need to proofread when I get home and then I put it online.

Overall, I think we got a good overall of Italy, maybe falling a little short for the southern part. We also managed to visit a bit of France during our three days at Corsica. Overall, our trip has covered the following cities/towns/villages:

1. Rome
2. Civitavecchia
3. Golfo Aranchi (Sardinia)
4. Olbia (Sardinia)
5. Santa Teresa (Sardinia)
6. Bonifazio (Corsica)
7. Moriani (Corsica)
8. Bastia (Corsica)
9. Savona
10. Milan
11. Venice

To my surprise it doesn’t even feel like that we’ve only been skimming the places. Granted, some of them are just kind of pass-through places where we just have waited some time to get a ferry but most of those are still small places from which you can get quite a good impression of by just walking around the town square.

Anyway, stay tuned, I try to post the travel journal and more thoughts about Italy, Sardinia and Corsica when I get back to Finland. I end this entry with a scene from Venice I shoot last night.

This is a scene shot from Wooden Bridge passing the grand canal of Venice.

Hello. We’re sitting here in a wine bar on the street via Ostilia, couple of blocks from the Colosseum. I stumbled upon this free wlan (not too many open ones in Rome) and I thought to say hello.

The trip’s been really nice so far and I’ve been keeping a journal which I’ll post when I have more time.

Bye now!

Hi,

Sorry again for the deadly silence in the blog. May and June were insanely busy so I didn’t really feel like blogging and didn’t really have time at the rare occasion that I felt like it.

But now, I have vacation all of July. Today we leave to a tour of Italy with my wife and I have high expectations from the trip. I have never been to Italy and the goal of this trip, apart from the obvious quality time and relaxation, is to see a bit of Italy.

I try to keep some sort of travel journal and do some blogging when we have internet coverage. I have a lot of gadgets, including cameras, laptop, GPS and my trusty old Nokia E70 with me so I guess I can do quite a bit. That’s the good thing when travelling with my wife. We actually stay sober and peaceful enough to do some intelligent and educating stuff as well. When travelling with friends, at least with most of them, there’s typically too much beer-drinking and stuff to actually sit down and do something that requires a focused thought.

Anyway, have fun you all and I hope that the server stays up and functional for the two weeks that we are abroad. I am not really worried about the server as such but our DSL connection has been quite unreliable for some reason in the last months. But alas, let’s hope that everything will be fine and ok, both in Italy and back home.

See you all.