address, house warming, farmer's market and... RSS Feed!!!

i am feeling pictorial, feeling graphic (well, that's not a good description ;) but not wordy)- so this one will be mostly pictures...
i really like my flat. and it has gotten the most positive reviews - though everyone says that the single room is just a tad bit small... though the bedrooms i have seen here are quite large typically, so in comparison it is small - but its definitely livable.
i hosted a house warming party saturday night, which was attended by about half the people i know in cardiff (that's either impressive, or pathetic, so i'll let you decide...). more interestingly is the collection of nationalities. there is a small international group that i have joined that consists of two polish girls, a belarussian lady, a peruvian guy (my new drinking buddy!), a sri lankan dude, a french guy (he has left meanwhile... no comment), and now me. and from the mathS department, there were three germans that came and an irish (if you are from ireland, no matter boy, girl, lamb, sheep - they call you irish) - and then we had to throw in the random english person, and indian lady that is friends of the flat owners and has my house keys. and that was essentially my party... and i made out with a bounty of alcohol at the end of the evening which is always nice!!! (of course, like any good party, it had to be broken up... by the downstairs neighbors. hmm. talk about first impressions, not going so well with them so far...)


sunday i went to the farmer's market here, well the larger one which is in what used to be an overrun area known as riverside. the farmer's market was a a historical first in the U.K. as it took what used to be a pretty bad area and made it much nicer. its not a large farmer's market, in davis terms, nor does it have much fruit and vegetables (i counted four stalls). it does have lots of ready food - lamb-burgers, persian food, egyptian food, cheese and non-prepared meat, olives. anyway, it was cute and nice. gemma was my guide - a very sweet girl i met at noelle's place (the girl from the flat that i went to visit). she explained things to me, recommended the french bread, the goat cheese and told me about bike trails. enough said.





noelle (on the left) met us for a cup of tea later on.

finally - my address is
51 Connaught Road
Flat 2
Cardiff United Kingdom
CF24 3PU

my phone number 07835 953 734 (44 is the country code i think, and i think you do not need to dial the 0...)
and, and, AND - i have advanced technologically to the point that i have managed to allow an RSS Feed!!! and i will not discuss the narcissistic nature of a person who puts an RSS on their own blog... oh forget it.