Nine days to Christmas

Sorry for not writing for such a long time. The problem with Christmas is it always comes as a surprise. One day you wake up, have a look at your calender and notice that you should at least start thinking of all the presents you need...
And then there are the different Christmas parties at work. One with the team, one dinner with whoever and then the Christmas party with our complete R&D team. This year this one took place in Dortmund in a brewery. It seems we always go to breweries when we want to celebrate something. Maybe this is a German thing.
We had very good food, good beer (this is what I was told, unfortunately I had to drive home that night) and good talks. All in all for engineers this means we had fun. The DJ was a little bit frustrated. He really tried hard with all different kinds of music, but nobody wanted to dance. Yeah, this is not untypical for engineers. And don't forget the high amount of women in our R&D: maybe 6%!
That all took place a week ago. And last weekend was an England weekend again. But this time it was more relaxing. The only activity was another trip to Cambridge for some Christmas shopping. It was a beautiful sunny day and we enjoyed it there. I attached some more pictures of Cambridge in the sun. We also finished the one geocache we already figured out the right coordinates, but didn't go there the last time. The trip ended with dinner in a nice Italian restaurant and when we came home we opened a bottle of red wine and lighted our gas fireplace.
On Sunday, before I had to go to the airport again, we put on some Christmas decoration. We decorated two windows and put some lights at the house. It looks nice. We spent the afternoon reading and then went to the airport. This time it was crazy. I expected us to have enough time for dinner there, but at the check in counter they told us to directly proceed to the security check. And the lines there were huge. I have no idea why it is good on some days and so bad on other days. Maybe it is holiday season and half the security personnel is already on vacation.
But I made it home in time and had a busy week up to now. This coming weekend I will spend in Germany.