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August 2009 - Posts

• Hernia Surgery

  The week before we went away on holiday I experienced pain in the pelvic area. I quickly got it diagnosed with ultrasound to be a hernia. Furtunately it could wait until we came back from holiday to be fixed although it was giving me some problems along Read More... Posted Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:27 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Going Solar

  When we came back from our holiday our watertank had started leaking significantly. Actually it had started leaking slightly back in May where at the same time the government was introducing the stimulus package as part of their rescue plan for the financial Read More... Posted Thursday, 27 August 2009 10:07 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Jump shots

  While we were travelling in Denmark and Italy we did a large number of Jump shots. Here are some of the coolest ones we did. First in Denmark Then Italy Read More... Posted Thursday, 27 August 2009 2:00 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Videos from our trip in Italy and Denmark

  During the trip Kim took a number of videos using her compact camera. Here are the best ones (Click on the links to download the videos): Denmark: Knights Fighting Firing Weapon Italy: Verona Aida the Opera 1 Aida the Opera 2 Aida the Opera 3 Aida the Read More... Posted Thursday, 27 August 2009 12:18 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Switzerland - Going home

  After Lake Como it was our last day and Italy and was time to go home. We had to return to Milan that evening to fly back to Sydney next morning. We decided to detour around the lake and possibly stop at some of the villages along the way. At the top Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:30 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Lago di Como

  After the Riviera we drove up to Lago di Como (Lake Como). This was the only place on the trip where we hadn't organised accomodation prior to us arriving. When we arrived we initially used the TomTom to find us a B&B, but it kept taking us up into Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:29 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Italian Riviera & Cinque Terre

  After Pisa we headed to the Italian Riviera, also called the Flower Riviera. I asked Kim to find us a nice spot along the coast for lunch and she picked Lido di Camaiore. When I was a kid I went to the italian riviera quite a lot with my parents. My mum Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:28 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Pisa - A revisit three decades later

  When I was a child I spend a lot of summers with my parents in Italy. They used to work in the Northern part of Italy as travel guides and as a result we generally headed that way during the summer time with our caravan or with a tent. When I was a baby Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:27 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Tuscany

  While Kim and I was in San Gemignano in Tuscany we spent a day just driving around in the beautiful landscape. Even though we just missed the harvest it was still really beautiful. It is full of all these rolling hills, Vineyards, Sunflower fields and Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:26 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Siena and one expensive dinner

  On the first day in Tuscany we decided to drive into Siena and have a look around. Our first impression was that parking was going to be a problem. There was some large tourist carparks on the outside of the city walls changing an exorbant amount of money Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:25 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Manhatten of the Medievil - San Gemignano

  After Verona we drove to Tuscany to a small medievil town called San Gimignano. It is a very small town where in the medievil days they were competing who could build the most 'high-rises'. This means that today the town is full of all these tall towers Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:21 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Verona and the Opera - Italy

  We arrived to Milan in Italy from Copenhagen in the evening. The first thing we did after landing was to pick up our rental car which was a small Fiat Panda (Never, ever rent a large car in Italy...some streets only accomodate snall cars) and then drive Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:18 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Rosenborg - Denmark

  On the last day in Denmark our flight wasn't leaving from Copenhagen to Milan until early evening, we therefore decided to head into the capital a bit earlier in the day and spend a couple of hours sightseeing with my parents. We went to a place called Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:13 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Knuthenborg Zoo - Denmark

  While we were in Denmark we went to the local zoo called Knuthenborg. It was created by the owner of one of the big farms who had a vision to create one of Europes larges open air zoos. What is so special about this particular zoo is that you drive around Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:12 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Medieval Centre in Denmark

  Not far from where my parent live there is an open air museum displaying how people lived in the medieval time which in Denmark was the late 14th century. For Kim and I it felt like we suddenly were a princess and a knight from that time. Besides from Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:11 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Sailing in Denmark

  On one of the days in Denmark we had a really nice and relatively calm day. This was perfect for us to go sailing and bring my mum along. First we had to get my mum onboard. The Sailing clum has a crane for removing masts from the boats. This is perfect Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 10:09 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments

• Denmark

  When Kim and i got married last year we promised my mum that we would come to Denmark this summer (European) and have a little party with her as she was unable to attend. Our journey there didn't start well. A five hour delay from Sydney meant that we Read More... Posted Monday, 17 August 2009 9:39 PM by rpallesen | 0 Comments