a new year

Hello everyone.

I know it has been a long time since I wrote here, but there were good reasons for it. I was away in India for my sister's wedding which was a complete success (check facebook for pictures) and then went off to short trips to Madrid, Cumbria and Sweden. Christmas was spent in Cumbria with Kate's family in a small little village in the middle of the Lake District. It was the most relaxing experience I have had in a long long time. The I made my way off to Sweden for new years with Mikie and his family and friends. We spend new years eve in Stockholm in Rasmus's apartment which was overlooking the entire city of Stockholm.. a very nice view. We also visited Soderfosh which is also a small little village in Sweden and managed to convince his dad to take us hunting for a bit. With our luck though we did not catch anything at all... but was a good walk in the forest anyways.

But over the last one week I have come back to Leeds and am starting to focus on work again. Our instrument is off to Canada and soon we will be leaving too. We are going to this tiny little village in Hudson Bay called Kujjurrapik... should be interesting to get frozen for 6 weeks. But before that we are going to Toronto, Quebec city and Montreal... very exciting... so much for our carbon footprint.