Archive for the ‘Travel’ Category

• Going to Rugby World Cup 2011!!!

  Date: 2010.07.02 | Category: Personal, Rugby, Travel | Response: 0

  

  A few month back, we applied for a stadium pack of tickets during the upcoming Rugby World Cup in New Zealand.  This week we learned that our Eden Park application was accepted.  We’re going to New Zealand, baby!!

  Our pack includes tickets for the opening match of New Zealand vs Tonga, Australia vs. Ireland, New Zealand vs. France, Fiji vs. Samoa and England vs. Scotland.  Now we have to figure out what matches we want to see.

• Agile 2009: Touchdown in Chicago

  Date: 2009.08.23 | Category: Conferences, Personal, Travel | Response: 0

  I’m in town for the Agile 2009!  This is my first big Agile conference and I am looking forward to all the sessions and meeting up with some colleagues.  Of course, with any big conference there are just too many sessions to attend.

  

• Ibiza Es Paradis

  Date: 2009.07.28 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  Mas de nuestras vacaciones.  Me encanta Ibiza y no puedo esperar visitar el ano proximo!

  

  

  

  

• Visiting Barcelona & Sitges

  Date: 2009.07.23 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  Spain is one of my favorite places in the world to visit.  Here are some pictures from Barcelona and Sitges.  Since this is our second trip to Barcelona, next time we are going to take a look at some flats.

  

  

  

  

• Going to Agile 2009!!

  Date: 2009.07.15 | Category: Agile, Agile SD, Conferences, Travel | Response: 0

  I will be attending my first big Agile conference this year in Chicago from Aug 24 to Aug 28.  The program for Agile 2009 looks really good and some friends of mine, Lleywelln Falco and Dan Gilkerson, from XPSD are speaking on Approval Tests.  This should be a good time to connect with old friends and make new connections.

• Photos from Shanghai

  Date: 2009.07.06 | Category: Personal, Travel | Response: 0

  Here is a collection of pictures I took while in Shanghai.  I am glad to be home.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

• Going to People’s Republic of China

  Date: 2009.06.14 | Category: Coaching, Travel | Response: 0

  Today I am starting a journey where I will spend the next three weeks in Shanghai coaching Scrum teams and training ScrumMasters.  I have never been to China before, so this should be an interesting trip.  I truly have no expectations or preconceived notion about what I will see or experience.

  

• Vicky Christina Barcelona

  Date: 2009.03.26 | Category: Movies, Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 1

   

  

  Park Guell

  After sitting around on our coffee table for about two weeks, we finally took the time to watch Vicky Christina Barcelona.  This was a very thoughtful romantic comedy and I enjoyed it for many reasons.  One, it dealt with complex relationships in a mature and honest manner.  Because there was truly no “right answer” on how to live your life, I thought Woody Allen did an excellent job leaving the ending ambiguous and true to the story – one could read the ending two ways depending on what one believed the “right answer” was for the protagonists.  Two, it was fun to watch the various characters play the neurotic, over-analyzing Woody Allen character – mostly Rebecca Hall, but Scarlett Johansson and Kevin Dunn also got in on the fun, too.  Three, I see why Penelope Cruz won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress.  Her presence on-screen was mesmerizing and invigorating.

  However, the best part of the movie were the lovely shots of Barcelona.  Barcelona is one of my favorite cities in the world and Woody Allen showed a lot of the great sites – Ramblas, the Gaudi architecture, the beaches, the beautiful Spanish sun.  For anyone who knows and loves Barcelona, this film is friendly reminder of this wonderful corner of Spain.

• Conversational Spanish

  Date: 2009.01.10 | Category: Personal, Spain, Travel | Response: 0

  This week I began conversational Spanish lessons from Carolina Mery-Wood at Pura Buena Onda.  Before the Holidays, I met with Caro for a short one-on-one interview\conversation to gauge my skill level.  She told me that while my vocabulary was excellent, I needed to improve my listening comprehension – I was between a beginner and intermediate.  She said it was up to me if I wanted to be the star pupil in the beginner class or perhaps the weaker of the intermediate students.

  I had my first class today with six other people and it was a lot of fun!  I was a bit anxious about my ability coming into the class, but I just dove in.  It was not as bad as I imagined it to be.  This is going to be fun and I am really looking forward to next week.

  

• Off To Boston

  Date: 2008.10.26 | Category: Agile, Conferences, Travel | Response: 0

  I will be heading for a great conference for the next few days, Oct 27th to Oct 30th, and will write up some short posts on what I saw and heard that was interesting and\or new.  I found this conference focuses less on technologies and more on techniques that work.  There will be a lot of sessions on Agile and many of the Agile thoughtleaders will be there.  Also, it does it hurt that this conference is in Boston.