Hello everyone. As you might have noticed, my blog on MyOpera has been pretty much dead quiet for the past year. I guess I don't feel that I have too much to write about, except for when I travel of course. Lately I've been thinking that it might be nice to perhaps put a bit more stuff on my page though.

I guess my nerdy glee over the nixie clock project woke up the creative spirit in me. If you haven't checked it out yet, be sure to do. Even though it's just 4 pics yet, there are lots of exposed electronics and cyrillic writing to be had! =)

Anyway, I've left my usual dwelling in Linköping to go work in Oslo for a while (don't worry, it's just a limited time project). Almost two weeks have passed since I left for Norway and I guess you could argue that not much has happened. Pretty much all I've done during the weeks is work and read books. But it's been quite interesting. The project I'm on right now is pretty secretive, so I can't say much about it, but it's quite fun (and seriously hard work).

I've also found time to see a bit of the night life and found out that Opera employees actually have discounts in several restaurants and bars around the office in Oslo. Now why don't we have that in Linköping? Maybe a bit of
lobbying is in order here

I'm housed in one of Opera's apartments during my stay here, sharing it with an Italian guy called Luca. Nice enough guy if you ask me. He's quite new here at opera and used to work at Ferrari in Italy (how's that for cool, eh?).

There's not much to do in the apartment, since my room is hardly big enough to turn around in (see the pic) and the living room has a small couch and a TV and oh yeah, a kitchen as well. Rune, one of the guys I'm working with, whom I've met a couple of times before in my work, was actually nice enough to lend me an old laptop. See what nice people you meet when you work at opera? It's actually the computer I'm writing on right now, even! Kind of interesting to be typing in English on a German keyboard with a Swedish layout, but what the hey, it works =)

Right now I'm getting really tired, I'm even at the point of being a bit lightheaded, so I'd better start wrapping up this post. Hopefully I'll do a bit more writing in the weekend, if I can come up with anything interesting to write about. Tomorrow it seems I'll be hitting the pubs with a few Linköpingites after work, but hopefully I will get home before eight in the morning this time (last Saturday was a blast though, thanks Aneesh =).

Keep checking my page though, I'll try to update it a bit more often. I do miss home and all of you in Linköping a lot. See you all in a couple of weeks!

/Abbe

After four days of walking, without access to gprs, we've started our bus trip back to Marrakech. On the way we've stopped for a nice lunch of tajin at a local food place. It seems full of trinket peddlers, much unlike the berber villages we've grown fond of during our trek.
At least we get to practice saying no in arabic.

After half a day of walking our cooks made a wonderful salad and we had our first outdoor meal. Already we've risen quite high above the plains, as you can see.

We finally arrived at the hotel in Marrakech, just in time to see the sun set.

We're leaving Linköping by train, as our great journey begins. It's all smiles now, but we'll see what faces we're making after 7 days of walking in the atlas mountains.