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I used to like taking photos during my travels… mostly landscape – beautiful scenes, you know what I’m talking about. I meant, pictures of Michal and friends we met on the way is nice, but it wasn’t really exciting for me.
But now I’m mostly taking photos of Abigail. Suddenly a nice lake or building just [...]

It’s been more than two weeks here in Chengdu, and today we have the first sunny day. And I mean really sunny- blue skies and a hot ball of flames in the sky.
The weather in Chengdu is usually simply a mist – part humidity, part pollution, 100% gray and depressing. I’ve taken a lot of [...]

I can’t believe it’s only been two weeks (okay, two and a half) since we left for China. It seems like it’s been months. The flights were better than expected, Beijing was rather annoying, and Chengdu is a strange mixture between India and Tel-Aviv. I like it here
Abigail is behaving great – she’s [...]

We landed in Beijing 3 days ago, and are on the flight to Chengdu now. The flight to Beijing was actually rather good – much better than we thought. Abigail was great. She’s actually behaving great in China. Everybody here is charmed by her – and wants to play with her, talk to her and [...]

So, tonight we’re (finally) flying to Chengdu… Hopefully for 4 months, we’ll see how we like it over there. Michal will practice Chinese Medicine, I’ll look after Abigail and continue to blog.
It’s amazing how much more difficult it is to pack with a child. We carry about 3 times as much weight as we would [...]

We’re slowly starting to get ready for the China trip. Studying chinese, waiting for our student visa and buying plane tickets.
Abigail is also getting excited, and has started to read Mao’s little red book:

Tags: abigail, chengdu, china, Mao

I just uploaded some new photos from 2008 – a few photos from Herzelia’s beach, the dead sea and from a hike we did in Sataf (a beautiful park near Jerusalem)… enjoy…

I’ve got me a new camera (don’t worry, I didn’t buy more junk – I’m just borrowing this one). It’s a small canon IXUS-70. It’s nice to have a small camera (my Panasonic is a bit larger, and my smaller Canon died in Switzerland).
Check out the photos we took at the beach
 

So, 2007 is finally behind us. Some people use calendars to know that, some people get it from the TV, and some wait for my yearly photo collection. So here it is. It’s really short – we haven’t done much traveling – guess we’re getting old!

It was a day filled with events. First of all, things in TripTouch looks good – hopefully I’ll have updates soon, but I can’t say more now.
Then my own server (which runs all my personal domains – RonMertens.com, Metalgrass.com, oled-info, mram-info, StartupIsrael, mertero.com, and more. It’s also running the CafeTouch website) was blocked for about [...]