not happy, jan

down to last dol­lars as not been paid by people who owe me money. can’t get into web­mail or net bank­ing to find out what’s going on as for some reason both sites are return­ing 404s. aaaargghhh. nice updates about cesky krum­lov soon when I’m feel­ing less...

Die Lange Nacht Der Museen

What an amaz­ing idea. What a night. When you have a crit­ical mass of museums, evol­u­tion occurs. The emer­gent creature is an exper­i­ence rather than an exhibit. The Haus der Musik was great, very hands on and taught me things I did not know about...

Chance and wonder

I just happen to have arrived in Vienna the week­end they have the Lange Nacht der Museen (the long night of museums) where for a €12 ticket, you can get access to all 40 of Vien­na’s museums so long as you see them between 6pm and 1am. They run buses between the...

Ah, Vienna…

All of you who just heard 80s synths in your head, I apologise. Back in Aus­tria, sit­ting in big blue things in the court­yard of the Museums Quart­ier with free WiFi again. The rest of Venice was fab­ulous, not least because just as I was about to...

Venice, 14/09/03

Ah, Venice again… Trav­el­ling down the grand canal on a vapor­etti this morn­ing was amaz­ing and won­der­ful. I just kept grin­ning. This was the one Italian town I really wanted to see again. And here I am. Spent the whole day look­ing at cool...