Sardinia

After a childhood spent wondering if Sardinia is where Sardines come from, I am finally here.

It is sunny but not too hot. The Island, what I have seen of it so far, and the city of Olbia are both beautiful. I hope to take lots of pictures.

I'm here for 3 nights on business, back in Ireland on Thursday evening. Looking forward to trying the local food.

Uneventful flight here, I read "Freakanomics" by Livitt & Dubner. It was OK, funny in places, interesting in others, I had previously read some of the material covered. It was a quick read though, I thought it would be enough for the entire trip, but I finished in about 3 hours, over the course of 2 flights. I picked up "Everything is Illuminated" by Jonathan Safran Foer in Rome airport for the journey home.

P.S. The "LifeDrive" I posted about below became a "DeathDrive" after about 3 days of operation, refusing even a the last resort of hard reset + reformat, luckily Dixons honoured their returns policy. In general it worked OK, it did what it claimed it could do, but it also crashed a lot. Maybe that was just my one, it obviously had some kind of hardware flaw. Still on the lookout for a PDA + MP3 player + movie player + Web brower / Email client with 4GB or more storage. If you know of one, please let me know.