happy christmas!

so i was off to visit shell in portsmouth (not southhampton!) for christmas. it was nice to get out of zurich for a bit - had been a while. and of course great to catch up with shell for at least a long long-weekend.


christmas was pretty fun, but we got out of portsmouth as soon as we could, and headed to brighton for a few days. brighton had quite the party town reputation, being the hometown of fatboy slim and all. and it did actually seem quite cool. certainly much more so than zurich.





although the weather was spectacular for mid-winter...


...the english really do have things to learn about beaches.