Cold wind from the north!

The temperature has dropped more than 10 degrees in less than a week! Thursday last week it was still like 25 to 27 degrees, at the week end just 20 or below and the last 3 days 13 to 15 at the most.
It is a cold and dry monsoon from the north east which has been inflecting the weather here at the south china sea. I know it sound like a bad joke to people from northern Europe, when I say that we've been freezing, as what is 13 degrees in the middle of November. And it can be true that it sounds like nothing and we should be happy t hat it is not 0 to 5 degrees. Well, that is certainly true, but; here it just happens in a vcouple of days that the temperature drops like that, and from running around in flip flops and a t-shirt, you suddenly have to dig out the warm winter clothes, you last saw when coming back from Europa last year just after Christmas.
Another thing about the 13 degrees here, is that it feels like -3 as it is still humid and moist, and that wet cold just goes through skin and bones. The 3rd thing is the houses; they are not at all built to keep anything in or out and the cold wind just rushes through the ventilation fans and where else it can. And if yoiu turn on a heater, the heat goes the same way just out, so if you don't cover your self in blankets and kind of building a tent around you and the heater, you can just forget about trying to get warm.
The good thing is; the temperature will go up again as quick as it went down, so next week tuesday, we might again enjoy 23 to 25 degrees, and again put the warn coats in the bag and hide it under the bed untill next time.

Lunch inside the belly of a huge shark!

It is not that long ago, like 3 weeks or so that spent two days in Macao. Now then again. 3 weeks ago I was there with my friend from Dresden. This weekend I'm going with my wife and her mother and friend from Edinburgh, as they are visiting us again and I think they must have kind of an exciting time here and last weekend they experienced a trip to Xi amen in China. I've wanted to go there for some time -Xi amen- and finally it worked out.
Xi amen is not far away from here and is good for a weekend trip. It is as warm as here and is also at the South China sea, but the different is that it is the real China and not like the "China Light" of Hong Kong or Macao.
I really like traveling in China and I think that we are going to go there a lot in the next years.
Here we just came out through the jaws and belly of this big shark, which covered the entrance to a restaurant. Of course it was a seafood restaurant and we also enjoyed some shark meat with vegetables.
In fact there is a lot more to tell about Xi amen and Mum and Ricky's first ever visit to China, but I think it has to wait for a while, as I have to get ready to leave for the ferry.

There must be something about that 9.

40 years ago I started at school far out on the Danish countryside.
30 years ago I finished school and joined the military and got trained to hate and fight the evil countries behind the iron curtain that divided Europe in to two hostile blocks.
20 years ago, I started to study at the university. I had matured and learned that there are more colours than black and white and had even been on a visit to the former Czechoslovakia, behind that everlasting iron curtain. Then suddenly one morning in November 1989, I woke up to the radio and the news that the people from both sides of the Berlin wall were celebrating and that East German people was visiting West Berlin.
I couldn’t believe what I heard, what we’d believed as the truth and as solid and unchangeable, had suddenly changed and nothing would be the same ever again.
10 years ago I moved my self and the most of my stuff to Dresden in Germany, in the former “enemy” part of Germany, behind the iron curtain, and which should turn out to be my home for more than 8 years, and now I really got to know the former east block countries as they were the new neighbors and I spend nearly every holiday I had, driving around exploring these places. East became the new West and I even matured more as I became less Danish and more European.
Now it is 2009 and China turns 60 and I’m living in Hong Kong and went to my first real trip into this new neighboring country of mine this summer.
Suddenly I realize that I’ve spend a fourth of my life in those countries, I got told to hate and fight, and here is the next one coming up; China.
So where will I be in 10 years time?

Commercial break!

It has been quite a while and a long hard holiday since I had something to say last time, or had something to post rather. Well today it will be something from my own backyard and is a teaser or a commercial for a theater performance done by the diploma students in our year 13. If you want to come by to have a look; it is tonight and tomorrow at 6:30 PM in the performing arts center.