petulant_kitten - slovenia, austria, germany, belguim, home

Well.... I'm back in bonny Scotland now after a busy month and a half.

I had my holiday in Slovenia with Brek - it was great to spend some proper time together, and the places we saw were absolutely stunning. The two lakes, canoeing, boating, the gorge, the cave system with the incredible underground canyon (think mines of moria), the cats, the pizza! It was generally pretty good, although Brek did get attacked by a nutty drunk on one of the trains, and the mountain biking, ahem, didn't suit me at all.

I travelled back through Austria, Germany and Belgium on the train, stopping in Bruges (a beautiful if expensive city), and then back to Scotland on the ferry. I love boat travel, although I was travelling in one of the cheap airline style seats and there were several loud snorers on this crossing so sleep was pretty much impossible.
 
Well, back home my parents had moved up to Montrose, so I spent some time up there, mostly helping to decorate their new flat. The last people had pink wallpaper, a yellow ceiling and woodwork and terracotta decorative plasterwork which added up to visual vomit on the eye. I can only hope they were colourblind. It is now beautiful pale blue and white. 

Finally, finally now I am back home and back at Uni. Thats been a whole load of hassle in itself. The things for enrolment and timetable and hons project book didn't arrive in the post (hallelujah for the royal 'mail') so this week has been a big rush and a bit of a firefighting exercise to put stuff right. But hey. I'm looking forward to having my brain back in gear, although its time for job and PhD applications which are very unfun.