Thursday, January 18, 2007

Un giro e pranzo

This morning a lecture on macroeconomics - an interesting insight into the financial situation in Italy. Best summed up as not good.
A couple of weeks ago Massimo and I had planned a 'giro' (turnabout) on Sunday and lunch. Due to a communication collapse we ended up not going.
So the news this morning that the Johnson and Johnson representatives were stuck at the airport because of fog, meaning that we had a free afternoon, the opportunity seemed too good to miss. So in a short while we are all jumping in cars and heading off to a village near the border to have lunch together. This is also a follow on from an email that Chris sent some time last week to encourage us to get together to do more things - such as eating out, bowling, the Carnevale in Venice (a lifelong dream for me!).
Talking of doing things together, skating last night was fun - although in the end there was only Hakan, Vlasta and I skating. Building on the success of Christmas skating, I was trying to do turns and skate backward. I am definitely heading for leg-breaking territory if I go again during our trip to Austria next weekend for the annual "MIB on the Snow" offsite.

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