Great news from Amal

[bruno]

they've already emptied the salmon pool.

[fish]

Round 10:00 Thurs.

It's a dreary old scene without the flowers to brighten things up.

Not to mention the water in the salmon pool.

Looks like everyone's left town too.


Can you blame them?

[bruno]

I noticed the long shadows at 5 p.m..... when it's still full afternoon in my city the sun is setting in (F.) Åmal.

I always traveled through the nordic countries in summer so I've never experienced the loooong winter nights there. I guess I'll never do it.

[fish]

I guess summer doesn't last very long when you're that close to the poles.

I noticed the temperature in London the other day, 14C. Bloody hell, we only get that cold in the middle of winter. Right now the days are getting longer and it's starting to warm up nicely, around 20C today.

Come mid summer though and 14C will seem beautiful.

[bruno]

Come mid summer though and 14C will seem beautiful.

I am a fan of the 15-20 °C range

[fish]

I must confess to liking it a little warmer, around 25C is nice.
We tend to have a very dry heat in this part of Australia. I'm sure if it was more humid I'd like it cooler.

Actually Milan is one of the places I'd like to visit someday.
The history, the architecture, and of course fashion week. (yum )

[bruno]

Actually Milan is one of the places I'd like to visit someday.
The history, the architecture, and of course fashion week. (yum )

Uhm... There are two or three things to see ("Duomo" that is the Cathedral, Leonardo's fresco "The Last Dinner", St. Ambrogio church...) but every other italian major cities, and many minor cities, boast tens or hundreds of monuments of a similar importance (great cathedrals and immortal paintings are a dime a dozen in Italy).
Rest of the city is grey, sad, here and there boresomely bourgeois, smog-saturated, wet and cold in winter and stifling hot in summer. We used to have a London-style fog too, but with the warmer climate of these years this is disappearing.
Fashion: I don't know what to say, I don't really care. City center is crammed full of fashion models, but if you take a close look at them, they are unhealthy, disproportionate and often unexpressive creatures. The fact they made us salivate about these human coat hangers stylists use for parading their rags is one of the major mysteries of marketing.

The bottom line: you'd better visit Rome(!), Florence, Venice(!!) - or Paris, London, Prague...
Whatever you do, do NOT go to Naples, because the place is almost completely lawless. U.S. 6th fleet can survive there, you can not.

[fish]

You make it sound so appealing.

I'm sure like the rest of Italy it has its share of attractions. It's still on my bucket list.

Maybe I'll get there one day, maybe not.

[fish]

Jeez that looks cold there this morning.
And it isn't even winter yet.
No wonder nobody's out and about.

[Agnes&Elin Forever!]

You have basically the same weather all year in Australia?

There is no real changing of seasons?

[Agnes&Elin Forever!]

Here is a pretty good song from Swedish band Kent about getting through the cold dark winter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_5Cx734Aew

[snaps]

That's kewl A&E. Winter just round the corner here and we haven't even had Autumn yet. Sharp frost overnite. Beautiful sunny but cold day here, so we'll pay for that one again tonite. At least we don't get venomous redback spiders in the Northern Hemisphere.

[Ian]

Uh, no Magnus. We still have winter and summer. It may not be quite as extreme in the cold sense as Scandinavia, but there's a world of difference between 14C and 40C!

[fish]

What's happened to the flags today?
They seem to have turned into those triangular things they hang from sailing boats.

Don't tell me it's the "Naughty Nautical Fest" tonight, and my little sailor suit is still at the cleaners after last time.

[fish]

WTF.

This is not what I expected when I turned on Åmålcam.
I wanted bare flesh and balmy autumn weather, not bloody snowdrifts.