Over the last couple of months, the Canadian Space Agency has been recruiting potential astronauts for their next batch, and, of course, I applied. I made it through the first cut of 5000 applicants, but not through the second cut of 2000 applicants. Sigh. Oh well, I didn’t really think I’d get in, but hoped…
Year: 2008
Europe Pictures
I have finally uploaded a selection (200 out of about 4000) pictures to my gallery on the Squid. I evenwent so far as to caption them all so you can see where they are without me telling you. Give yourself a good 15 minutes to have a peruse. I DIDN’T upload great huge 5 megapixel…
Home Again
Well, with the exception of Dylan’s bag being delayed until today, we’re home. [Ed: It was delivered the next day] It was a long, hot journey, but in the end I think it was a very worth while and enjoyable trip. Very much an experience and adventure. For me anyway. I can’t speak for the…
On our way back home.
We’ve made it back to Heathrow and are just waiting for our plane now. It gets in around 6:30 on Monday evening (though that’ll be 1:30 our time). It’s been fairly easy getting from Paris to London to Heathrow just a pain dragging bags around, but they’re all checked now and we board in an…
Paris.
We managed to get in and get settled in our apartment. It’ still hot, and we’re just formulating our day. Nothing too seriously planned, maybe go down to Ile de Ville Cite…or something like that. Where Notre Dame is. We have to get up VERY early tomorrow for our train and tour out to Mont…