Reflections through Cyberspace

Finally I found the motivation to start reading again! In the past months, I have been buying books, and getting books from the library, only to leave them there, or start reading the first chapter and stop reading! I don’t know what got into me - I used to really enjoy reading and there were [...]

Preparations for the wedding are now underway This week we have set the date, and booked the church and also the venue for the reception. We are getting married at a Sanctuary, and we are holding the reception in a ballroom at a hotel.
I have been visiting websites to get ideas, and also went [...]

Yesterday evening, during dinner, we were discussing how Christmas has not been the same in recent years, as it was when we were younger. It seems there is no Christmas spirit any more..or at least that’s how I am feeling this year. When we were younger, Christmas time was much more exciting and we would [...]

Yesterday night, after spending four days sick in bed, I didn’t feel like going to sleep early, so I took out the christmas cards and started writing Although I will be sending e-cards to some of my friends, I think it’s nice to receive cards by post. Today I got my first Christmas card [...]

Where I work, there are a number of bookshops close by, and one of them had a sale this week! So what did I do? I have been visiting during lunch break everyday..and I ended up buying books both on Monday and on Tuesday In the end, today I had to come to work [...]

We were back from Barcelona last Saturday…it went by so quickly! But it was a great holiday and we managed to visit a lot of places The weather also favoured us, as we had sunny days and nice weather throughout the holiday
We were staying in Barcelona, but apart from Barcelona, we also [...]

Today I came across the list of World Heritage Sites.
The World Heritage List includes 878 properties forming part of the cultural and natural heritage which the World Heritage Committee considers as having outstanding universal value. These include 679 cultural, 174 natural and 25 mixed properties in 145 States Parties.
I had a quick look at the [...]

This week I finally found some time to catch up with reading I decided to read one of the library books I got (which are already long overdue..still have to find the time to take them back!). It’s a novel by Joanna Trollope - Girl from the South. I had already read another book [...]

We have started planning our holiday to Barcelona, and up to now we have these places listed in our ‘to visit’ list:

PortAventura
Guell Park
Magic Fountain
Aquarium
Sagrada Familia
Spanish Village
Barcelona FC football ground
Las Ramblas
La Boqueria
the Gothic “barrio”

I hope we manage to visit all these places, and possibly more, in the 5 days we will be spending in Barcelona [...]

I must say..I really needed this long weekend off from work Since finishing exams last June, I haven’t had a proper break from work, since I started working immediately after finishing the last exam. Even though this long weekend wasn’t a proper break..in that it was only 4 days off from work, it was [...]