It's holiday season... Europe entirely wanders south, all the freeways are blocked and streets are empty. Only the poor children are left, all others are down south with either the parents or better with the retired grandparents who can take 6 weeks off...

As I don't have kids, I stay here. No holidays for me. I have to take over holiday responsibilities for my teammates with kids who're in the sun now...

I really miss the ocean, sand between my toes, the sound of waves, the smell of sea in the air, .... I really need a real vacation badly, but I don't have the dough and no slot in the holiday plan I could bargain for. My next slot is my week end August / early September.

I was in London for two weeks on Thursday and Friday and that's it. I spent my time by going to Camden Lock and shopping shoes at Harrods. I bought two pairs of Stuart Weitzman shoes. I love his shoes. He is a genius. His shoes are the only elegant business shoes I can wear with my joint and foot pain.

We also went to the British Museum to see an exhibition on Islamic Calligraphy / Typography. It was very interesting and I wish I knew more about Islamic scripture, persian poetry and knew the broad spectre of islamic faith today. I guess if more people were interested in Islam and more opinions were exchanged prominently (and not the loudest heard voices of muslim fundamentalists and extremists), everybody would benefit.