Tag: travel
This is why I need adult supervisionĀ
Lisbon in 1 day
Vera and ! managed to sneak a few hours of walking around Lisbon before the official start of websummit. 24,000 steps later, we were beat, but we managed to see the highlights (if only from outside).
We also stopped in this little hole-in-the-wall restaurant. Honestly, at first I thought the door was a window – it was that small. It was, however, full of locals and the food was superb. I had a tuna steak and steamed veg for 9.50 euro. Seriously. I also had a piece of torta de laranja that was pure evil goodness. Think of a cake made with 12 eggs and 500g of sugar. I’m looking for a recipe. The host kept taking the piss at us, but in a friendly way. “You’re on your holiday and you want to drink sparkling water? What’s wrong with you!” And then when we were leaving, we complimented the kitchen saying that the food had been excellent. His response? “We know”.
Love it.
WebSummit, here I come
Finally made it to Lisbon. Flight delayed, thought my bag might have been lost (it wasn’t), it’s raining, but no worries. I’m in my hotel, I have Wi-Fi and I have plans to meet up with co-workers later tonight.
Canada trip picture mosaic
Baaaaaad influence
That little owl is a bad influence. He “liberated” a bottle of wine from a tapas bar, which was opened with a shoe along the way to another tapas bar, then got reaaaaaly pissed with other bottles of wine. Many bottles of wine.Ā Many many many bottles of wine. And unexpectedly prawns. Good prawns. But wine.
It started like this: | But rapidly devolved into this: |
He will feel it in a couple of hours when the first session starts up. But it was worth it.
Edit: The owl felt better than he had any right to expect the following morning. The breakfast buffet and lots of water probably helped.
Flying through a storm
The flight back home was fairly uneventful, except for the bit where we landed in a thunderstorm :)
Bears on a plane
Casa Buitoni
We went on a team building retreat at Casa Buitoni last week. It was brilliant. Not only did we get a lot of good work done, but we also gelled as a team. We defined a mission statement, core values, a project roadmap and also worked out decision-making processes, org charts, team agreements and best practices. We also ate a cubic buttload of food.
More pictures here: http://www.flubu.com/various_pics/casa_buitoni_sep_2013/
Casa Buitoni is located up in the hills of Tuscany along with the fields of tomatoes, wheat, vegetables, herbs, and olives. It serves as the symbol of Buitoni’s symbol of quality, commitment, and tradition. It was the house of Giulia’s grandson, Giuseppe, and it now serves as a company product development center. This is the place where products are created and sampled.