Finally, after two and half months, I and Andrej have been together again and as we got the car for a couple of days, we decided to go for a trip somewhere. However, the parking in Munich is not the best idea and we wanted to use the car more useful, so we drove toward two lakes near Munich - Starnberg See and Walchensee. Starnberg See is the second largest lake in Bavaria.
Well, I don’t celebrate Halloween, because firstly it’s an American feast and secondly I think that All saints day is about something else and we have much better tradition of thinking about our relatives. As every year, I honestly completely forgot about it, when someone knocked on our house door. When it was repeated second time by another little cute child dressed as a little pumpkin, my house-mate went to shop and bought a bowl full of sweets and candy.
I attended another IKEA seminar. This time, it was about furnishing with light, from needs to task solutions. First, I though I would miss the beginning of the seminar because my train was delayed as usual, but I finally managed to be on time and I relished nice English breakfast at the top floor of IKEA. We had very nice presentation about the role of light, different light sources and examples how to use light in different rooms for various purposes.
I was looking for some photos in my huge database of pictures :)and i found several interesting pictures, which have probably not been seen by anyone except me and Andrej and which remain me a lot of nice things. They are all somehow related to our wedding. As I came home just one week before our wedding, I could only listen who send a new wedding card with best wishes. Therefore, when I was in Slovakia I put all of them together so I could also see them.
To say “it’s autumn” is not really up to date information, especially when at some places in Slovakia is already snowing. But I think this part of year is the most beautiful in England with the most stable weather as well and I couldn’t help myself taking some lovely pictures. Above the fourth tree from right side in the second row of windows is approximately the place where I work :).
I visited another English town, called Bradford. I spent around three hours by travelling by train so I had enough time to find out more about the cathedral, shopping centres, main square and the University of Bradford where I went for conference. The town was quite nice and I had good weather as well (surprisingly :)). The only thing I didn’t expect was that I felt a little bit like I was in Near East as I met many Arabic guys and I saw many specialised shops with clothes and food typical for that countries.
My two friends were in New York at the end of September and it remained me that I have two more panorama pictures from the “big apple”. I took them at the top of the Rockefeller Centre. Although I need to say that I prefer the beautiful views from the top of hills not from buildings, these place was amazing. There were many people as everywhere, but we could move freely and took pictures of whatever we wanted.
My house mate who loves cooking of pasta inspired me with a new mixture of spices, so I tried it in Lasagna with minced meat. Ingredients: 2 spring onions, chopped 1 onion, finely chopped 3 garlic cloves, minced 450g minced meat 350g tomato sauce 2 chopped tomatoes or some cherry tomatoes cut in half 200g eidam cheese, grated 12 pieces of uncooked Lasagna pasta black pepper, salt 1tsp of each - basil, fennel seeds, coriander, mint Bechamel sauce:
I had a lot of time to think about new features in the virtual baby project during the London expo. There were many people who tried the application and gave me a nice feedback. Well, I got some ideas how to improve whole thing. One of the biggest problem in the environment was that the user miss the depth, so it’s sometimes difficult to say where the spoon is in the space.
As we have been together again for a little bit longer time than usual, we decided to go somewhere for a nice trip. This time we chose mountains Male Karpaty with the aim to go to the highest hill Zaruby (768 m). And to make this trip more interesting, we visited ruins of two castles on the road. On Saturday morning we travelled to Plavecke Podhradie, where our trip began and after 20 minutes of hiking we could observe ruins of the first castle Plavecky hrad.