Martin McDowell's Blog

Back in Slovenia for a few days and just to let you know about the temperature difference: Haverfordwest yesterday: 10°C Ljubljana this morning: -7°C Enough said. I literally do Feel Slovenia. Mind you, it was also pretty cool to just drive over the Italian-Slovenian border without having to stop and show your passport/ID.

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Sem upal, da se mi ne bo potrebno srečati s to precej pogosto obliko vedenja v tem delu Velike Britanije, zal pa se je izkazalo, da tudi ta samotni Johnston, v katerem živim, ni imun na tovrstno obliko izživljanja mladih.Da najprej malo objasnim našo okolico. Živim v dvostanovanjski hiši, neposredno poleg mene se zgradba nadaljuje [...]

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Včeraj zvečer sem se imel imel prvič možnost udeležiti novoletno-božične zabave Fenton veterinarske klinike. V bistvu jo oni imenujejo le božična zabava, brez novoletnega dela. Kaj jaz vem zakaj. V Veliki Britaniji večino takih zabav organizirajo v hotelih, ker imajo oni ponavadi edini zadosti prostora in tudi hrana je na dovolj visokem nivoju. Sploh tu, [...]

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As Christmas is soon approaching and with it the Christmas dinner I realized I will have to add a table and chairs to my collection of few furniture items in my flat. As I have been quite disappointed with some stuff I got from Argos I decided to go for the more inconveniently far Ikea. [...]

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After finally settling for DeLand being the DZ we will be jumping at we have now also have a definite place where we will be staying. Now you skydivers among you probably know what the usual level of accommodation comes during skydiving trips. This time we will live in near luxury. We will have a [...]

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As mentioned in a previous post, this is the DZ (dropzone) where we will do our skydiving in Florida in 2008. There are quite a few of us booked for the SkyDragons tunnelcamp and all will skydivers will also be doing jumps as well. Why on earth would you miss skydiving in Florida and the [...]

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