Hey, what’s up?

Just to update you a little bit on what’s going on here. In these very days it’s a bit of a celebration time for us, as it’s a year we’ve lived in the flat. We were thinking about moving a couple of months ago, mainly to look for something a bit bigger, but did not find anything “wow” that impressed us straight away, so here we are. It seems yesterday that we went to Ikea to get ourselves a bed and a wardrobe as very first and bare necessities. Then came the darkening courtains and other decorations, but, well, it does not seem like a year.

(Yes, we will post some pictures. And yes, the reason for us not doing so is the mess. We’re sure you’ll understand).

As for the more recent past, well, a few things have been going on. The most relevant are Aperitweat, the trip to Warwick and Coventry, and the kickoff of the London Blitz season.

AperiTWeat 1.0 (and 2.0)

we already told you about the little private rehearsal we had for AperiTWeat. We had a very successful 1.0 event at Al Volo, on the 15th of April. Over a hundred people turned up and enjoyed the typical Italian Aperitivo drinks and the lovely home made food, kindly offered by Al Volo, for a good 4 hours of relaxed networking and having fun.

In fact, AperiTWeat 1.0 was so successful that attendees, when leaving, actually were asking us (that’s Gioia, Laura, Niamh, Carmen, Julius and I) when we’re going to organise the next event. Well, to answer that question, on the 20th of May. Same venue, Al Volo restaurant, Ely’s Yard (just off Brick Lane), who will kindly provide their food once again, only slightly later, taking into account work committments and taking advantage of the (hopefully approaching) English Summer.

All the information you will need can be found at our AperiTWeat website. Don’t forget to RSVP here if you plan to attend!

Kenilworth, Warwick Castle and Coventry

Warwick Castle from Matteo Starri on Vimeo.

We had a lovely two-day trip to somewhere very close to our hearts. Gioia was invited to take part into a fam trip by the Sundial Group, so we headed towards Coventry on a Friday after work, from where we then we reached Kenilworth, where we had a lovely dinner and stay at the Woodside resort. The folowing morning we enjoyed a visit to Warwick Castle: it was not new for both us, although we never had the chance to visit together. The morning was very pleasant and we took part in a treasure hunt organised by the guys at Adventure Sports: it was a very nice way of going around the castle itself and the surrounding park (although we did pretty bad in the hunt itself!).

After lunch we headed back towards Coventry, but we first stopped at Warwick University campus. This was the first time we got back to Warwick Uni after we finished our Erasmus year in June 2006, so it was nice to just have a walk around the campus in the April sunshine. Although they are working to renew the Students’ Union, and the number 1 bus no longer stops at the same place, everything else is pretty much the same. And, for being a sunny April Saturday afternoon, well, there were quite a lot of people around the library!!! Go out! Enjoy yourselves!!!

We then went to Earlsdon, the area where we used to live, and made the most out of the afternoon with some outdoor drinks with our friends Anita and Herbert (who we had not seen for ages, shame on us) at the City Arms, and then moved to the Royal Oak, the pub we used to work in 2006.

It’s nice to have some time outside London every so often, it really recharged our batteries!

London Blitz

The American Football season kicked off! I only now realised I haven’t told you that I joined the London Blitz this year: I have been playing American Football for some 6 years now, but last year did not manage to find enough time to committ to play the game. This year, now that my MA is over, I joined the London Blitz, and I am playing the BAFL Premier League. The first of 4 road games resulted in a 40-16 win over the home team, the Bristol Aztecs. We then played at Aldershot against the Farnham Knights, again winning away from home, this time the final score was 44-6 to the Blitz.

You can check out some pics from Farnham and Bristol over at Dan’s gallery.

We’ll get back to more frequent posting in the future, rest assured!

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