Thursday, 25 December 2008

The year that was..

Halfway during the year I fell off my blogging habit. Largely due to facebook and a myriad of other reasons (I'm sure, I just can't think of them now) but especially my mum (Hi mum) seems to appreciate a bit of blogging effort. I don't think signing her up on facebook is a solution and somehow there's something that feels more permanent about making a blog post. It's christmas and Momo and Barthold are here in Rome. We just had an inside wintery christmas day with lots of lego building, eating Pandolce and swedish meatballs and watching Sissi on tv. Momo (my mother) and Barthold went to the local church of San Saba and Kika wanted to come along so she got to see the baby Jesus in the presepio and experience her first church service, which apparently she took very serious and she made M&B kneal too and be very quiet. A previously undiscovered religious instinct. Francisco and I staid home helping Felix build his new Star Wars Republic Attack Gunship.

Francisco and I came back from a tiny wee city trip to Vienna on Christmas Eve, we went to see Shantel and the Bucovina Club Orkestar at the WUK and it was brilliant, we jumped and sweated and danced with the rest of the sold out WUK. Gigs where the musicians throw vodka glasses in the audience and start filling glasses personally with vodka are rare as far as I know. Great great fun. We went with Rashad, a friend Francisco works with at the FAO, in whose appartment we got to stay the night.

I'll gather a pile of posts with fotos so there's a bit of an overview of the year.

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