Flour Power

(photo by the_girl)

It was 6 months ago that I moved to Galway, Ireland, for a 6 months internship sponsored by the INOV Contacto program. It was 6 months ago that I left the comfort of the house I had lived in for the previous 20-something years and moved to a completely new place. It was 6 months ago that I had the first of many pints of Guinness…

Those were 6 great months.

A lot of fun was had at the awesome Irish pubs. Some travelling was done around Europe. A lot of people were met, and some became good friends.

Those were the good things, and although not everything was perfect, I really can’t point any especially bad experience. So the overall experience was very positive.

And that’s why I’m going back!

That’s right, I hadn’t made it official yet, but I’m announcing it now. The company where I did the internship offered me a contract extension and so I’ll go back to Galway for some more time.

It’s now time to rest, and I’ll be back in one week.

(photo by Mark van de Wouw)

Quark Expeditions is offering to send one lucky blogger to the Antarctic Peninsula for two week’s worth of freezing cold and penguins. Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? That’s why I’m participating!

Here’s how it works… The one with the most votes by September 30 will be flown to Argentina in early 2010 to embark in one of Quark’s expeditions to Antarctica. The winner will become the expedition’s official blogger, and will have the responsibility of reporting the whole thing – the preparation, the expedition itself, and the return home. I think I’m qualified for the “job”, and that’s why I’m asking for your support.

Long story short, I need your vote:

Please vote here!

Yes, you have to register to vote, but it’s not that bad, it only takes a couple of minutes. You might have to check your spam folder for the confirmation email.

I’m gonna need thousands of votes to win this thing, so feel free to ask your family, friends and pets to vote for me. Also, sharing my link or a link to this post will be very much appreciated (just use the icons in the end of this post).

Thanks in advance for your help!

I understand how scissors can beat paper, and I get how a rock can beat scissors, but there’s no fucking way paper can beat rock. Is paper supposed to magically wrap around rock and leave it immobile? Why the hell can’t paper do this to scissors? Screw scissors, why can’t paper do this to people? Why aren’t sheets of college ruled notebook paper constantly suffocating students as they take notes in class? I’ll tell you why, because paper can’t beat anybody. A rock would tear that shit up in 2 seconds. When I play rock paper scissors, I always choose rock. Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, oh shit I’m sorry, I thought paper would protect you, you asshole.

(via The Inquisitr)

I think this is, so far, the event that made me feel more sorry for not being in Portugal…

Shake Me Like a Monkey

Ants Marching

Don’t Drink the Water

Aligator Pie

Seven

Interview with Dave Matthews

Ryanair announced it will open its 33rd base at Porto. The base will have 2 new aircraft and 4 new routes. This represents an investment of $140 million (about €100 million) and will increase Ryanair’s traffic at Porto to 1.5 million passengers per year, which will sustain 1.500 jobs.

Basel, Eindhoven, St Etienne and Tours are the 4 new routes, and along with the doubling of flights to Paris Beauvais (to twice daily), Ryanair will be offering 50 daily return flights to/from Porto.

And to celebrate:

Ryanair celebrated its new Porto base, two new aircraft, 16 routes and 1.5 million passengers by releasing 1 million €9 seats for travel across its European network for travel in late August, September and October which are available for booking on www.ryanair.com until midnight Sunday (5^th July).

Now what I want to ask now is: what about Lisbon?! Get those open minded flight attendants to the capital as well…