Winter has hit us with full force, even old Simon Gear cracked the nod to appear in a news insert tonight. This is my second winter in a row now, the pic is of a hotel I stayed in on top of a Swiss Alp in Lucerne. Although we dont have to deal with snow to that extent, South Africa is not equipped with central heating like the Europeans. For us hot water bottles and mini heaters will have to do, I find it hard to imagine how hard it must be living on the streets in this weather where the only source of warmth is a single blanket or jacket... if you are lucky. Makes you think twice before complaining!

OK, seriously, how could I not put this pic up??? Just shows, dynamite comes in small packages hey!

ok ok ok! are you happy Carly and Gregor? I know I have been slack about blogging! How cool is this pic though, i found it amidst some of my contiki photo's. We were staying in this amazing resort hotel in Vienna, sitting chilling in the lobby and looke dup to realsie that the entire ceiling was a mirror! Pretty cool if you ask me...wonder if this trend extended into the honeymoon suite? This was laso the night of my fist snow experience where we had a snow fight outside the hotel and woke up the next morning with snow covered window sills, amazing :-)

It is so strange how the world works...yesterday Robz, Jen and Phil spent the day together on the other side of the world. These are three of the most important people in my life, all of whom I met at different stages of my life, in different places...but somehow it has worked out that they ended up meeting up yesterday. Sometimes the invisible ties that seem to keep us all together, keep up the saying, "It's a small world", just become so visible. Makes me wonder...
It is so good to know that you three were all together because you are all such wonderful individuals! I cant wait to spend summer sundays and holidays having 'barbeques' at the coast!