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Brian Danos, 13 September 2009
Hong Kong , Tin Hau

Long lost hello

Hello all –

A nice friendly hello from the other side of the world. It has been a while since I managed to update this thing but nothing much extraordinary has been going on. Just the normal summer activities of junk boating (see- http://picasaweb.google.com/brian.danos/August29thBrianAndSimons#), a diving adventure in Cebu (http://picasaweb.google.com/brian.danos/CebuDiving#) and a hike with some monkeys (http://picasaweb.google.com/brian.danos/ReservoirHike72609#).

Other than that, I had a few trips for work that kept me pretty busy. I spent a week back in August in London and then Oslo which was a new place for me. Oslo is a really nice, albeit expensive, place. I did eat some of the freshest, best seafood I have ever had on the Oslo harbor so that was a plus. Top that off to a quick trip to Taipei and that was it over the past few months. That will change shortly as the coming months will involve a bit of travel to the states and more than likely back to EU. As a short aside, I did manage to grab a lunch at Hooters in Taipei. I will leave it to say that the asian branch does not meet the namesake like American branch but the wings were just as good.

Contrary to popular belief, I have yet to take my big vacation for the year – that will be coming up in the middle of October. For 12 days Simon, Thomas and I will be backpacking across Tibet and into Nepal. We will actually take the ‘roof of the world’ train into Lhasa, Tibet from Xining, China and spend a few days seeing the sights in Lhasa. Then it is off to Mt. Everest base camp where we will spend a day or two and then it is off to the border with Nepal and into Kathmandu before we head home. Needless to say, just writing about that gets me super excited. It should be an amazing trip and there will be more pictures than needed but I will be sure to share for those who are so inclined.

For those who have a week with nothing to do over the next 2/3 months feel free to come on over – the weather is heading into the perfect time of year and there are always plenty of things to do plus my guestroom is not getting used nearly enough!

As always, would love to hear updates from you all and look forward to seeing some of you all when back in the states at the end of this month. Hope all is well.

B

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