Well I have been slacker then usual and havn't really updated my blog for sometime. The main problem has been that I have been incredibly busy with social commitments and had a string of visitors, that while great having them over, have been in my computer room and consequently its been hard to get much geek related work done. Actually let me rephrase that, its been impossible to get any geek related stuff done.
I went down to Devon and Cornwall last week with Astrid which was a great trip. The English weather continued to be "perfect" (I use the quotes as I think hot sunny weather is fucking atrocious but I recognise that I am in the minority) and we were able to do a lot of walking around the most rugged of the coastlines I have yet seen in England, which is not to say that its actually that bad but rather the rest of England doesn't strike me as being that rugged ;) It was a very pleasant trip with some amusing incidents like trying to eat out in Clovelly where we found out that we had to book as the restaurants only have food for the first 10 people through the door! Ah the country :) The highlight of the trip for me was Tintagel which is the remains of a (supposedly King Arthurs) medieval Castle perched on a tiny island jutting out into the sea linked by a narrow land bridge that the proverbial 6 old ladies with broomsticks could defend. The view, combined with the weather rolling in off the Atlantic made for a magical setting.
