Seasonal Paradise

Accepted to Harvard

Very happy!  I got accepted onto a Harvard Business School executive course in February.  A one week intensive entitled 'Launching New Ventures.'  I've always wondered what it would be like to study at a top tier Ivy League School, but now I can't possibly justify taking a year or two off, even if I could get in.  So this course fits perfectly, just after iDate Miami.      

I'd love to do this course on Strategic Innovation, and this course on Media Psychology.  Time will tell. Right now business is great, and clients own my time and attention.

Sasha Worm

Weekend Date With Irena

Cold Beer Tastes Best After Hiking Hot Canyons

 

Desserts at La Pergola

Wafer thin mints?

Our New Ride

We spent 6 months in Malta without a car.  Today we picked up a shiny new ride for pottering around Malta and for our 'date nights.' We like to go out a couple of times a week for date nights to different restaurants in Malta, usually in St Julians and Valletta. Now we have a fun way of getting there and back, and discovering the rest of the islands. The Honda RC30 (the race version of the VFR750) with it's single side swing arm was my dream bike when I was 18. Now, 21 years later, we picked up a VFR800. It rides like a dream, and is one of the best reviewed all-rounder bikes ever produced. 

Mark & Irenas Dad For NYE

Birthday Cigarro

Taking in my favorite Ardbeg whiskey and cigar, just prior to my
birthday, in Malta.

Barcelona (lively) Seafood

The seafood in Barcelona is great but I'm seriously considering going
vegetarian again after this little guy proved his fighting spirit and
gave me a right hook onto the nostrils. Luckily Andreas was able to
pry him away.

Kung Fu Training

Stretching before we start our kung fu training lessons. Sasha is 2. Its never too early to kick some ass.  

Kon-Tiki Museum

I remember reading and being inspired by the Kon-Tiki story, as a kid. So it was a real thrill to visit the Kon-Tiki museum in Oslo in early August. In 1947, Thor Heyerdahl and his international crew set off from Peru, and landed in the Polynesian Islands 101 days and 4300 miles later. Thor wanted to prove that Polynesia was settled by South Americans using simple balsa-log boats.

In Mdina

Irena is NOT pregnant, btw. :-) 

 

Whiskey Tasting

Whiskey tasting with mum.

Seaplane Ride, Victoria-Vancouver

We took a seaplane rides for a daytrip to Vancouver. Then learned
that two planes had crashed in the prior month. Time to do our will
(and avoid seaplane rides).

Bed Time

 

Bed Time For Double Trouble

 

Wet Feet

Mi Familia At Charles Bridge, Prague

Prague Urban Hiking

We hiked from our place in Andel, up to a park overlooking Prague. 

Sasha Siesta

Hiking In Boulder

Mirrored Lake At Kildermorie In Scotland

Fishing In Scotland

First Time Shooting

A Flower For My Girl

Test Ride

Trying out my schoolfriend Neil Bunn's chopper. He's customized this 30 year old air cooled in-line 550cc four banger.

Sasha Boxing Dad

Evening Dress : Wedding Day

Wedding Day - April 25th, 2009

The 2nd most important and happiest day of our lives was April 25th, 2009 in Prague, our wedding day. The first was the day Sasha was born. Here we're driving to Louny for the reception.

Wedding Video, With Completely Inappropriate Music

Our videographer is Czech and didn't understand the words to the song he attached to this video.  The movie was meant as a quick message to mum.  My mother (77) was not well enough to travel from Victoria, Canada to Prague for the wedding, alas.

Married In Prague

The End of Our Pre-Honeymoon

We went to Venice as our 'pre-honeymoon' before going to Prague to get married. Here we're in the water taxi, headed back to the Venice airport just after dawn.

Venice Water Taxi

Venice Gondolas

Wake Up Juice