Back in Bristol

J. A. M. (right to left)

Spending the weekend in Bristol with my Ecuadorian wife (a story for another time).

Handful of chemists + 1 environmentalist + amazing artist = fun times :)

She and her Bristolian friends took me out on the town last night and I spent the evening surrounded by 11 PhD chemists, an artist and other associated stragglers.



This blog is not the place to describe a Bristolian night out. It was fun. I'll leave it at that.

Green Roof on the garage!

Today, we dragged our tired selves to the cafe at the local city farm and had an incredible brunch/lupper of locally grown delicious food and spent some time afterward looking around the farm and the eco-village.

All the houses have solar panels on them! I don't know how well they work... but the thought is there! The houses here tend to be terribly insulated against the cold. I find it strange, considering this country gets a winter every year. I not-so-secretly hope that the eco-houses incorporated insulation into their "green-design".

Solar panels :)

It's looking like Spain will be in the books for next week. I'll be booking a flight from London to Seville to meet some Montreal friends there and then head to Cordoba where another childhood friend is teaching English.






Today consisted of R&R, yummy home-cooked dinner and a decadent dessert. J invited over a girlfriend that she was set up with through a friend that I introduced J to... Does that make sense? All to say that the world is small and our generation has probably closed the gap on the 6 degrees of separation and is likely closer to 4 or 3... Ah, the joys of facebook!