Bits & pieces

Brussels is quite a nice city. I'd love to tell you all about it's turbulent history, inspiring architecture, etc, but I'm afraid most of my attention went to it's more comestible attractions. I can tell you the french for "waffle" is "gauffre" and that'll have to do for "culture".

While there, my girlfriend and I found out that we've passed the Helsinki University of Technology entrance exams, and will be returning to the smelly, noodle-sucking, student lifestyle once more. We're in good company, Martin Sheen is also returning to college this autumn, he'll be studying English lit, philosophy and theology as an undergrad at the National University of Ireland, Galway. I'm serious.

I'm very delighted by the idea, I hope to be sufficiently solvent and lucid as a sextagenarian to go study all the things I was curious about, had to ignore because they didn't impinge on my main studies.

I'm also just back from watching my home-town team draw with the local Helsinki football team HJK. The experience of walking down familiar Helsinki streets aurally bathed in the accent and expressions of home was exquisitely surreal.