jaff_fox

Back from Tenerife. What a blast! I've not been that relaxed in a long time. The weather was beautiful, I left home in thick snow and got there to sun sea and sand. I just wish i had longer out there.

This is my last week before returning to Sheepland Wales and work at the Hostel. I do feel a little annoyed with myself that I didn't get more done in my time off, but some how I knew this would happen. I did however have time while on holiday to sit down and get some good decent sketches done in my sketch books. I'm quite amazed at the quality of art I can produce when not surrounded by my normal everyday distractions.
I've also got some good urban exploration in and finally found some reliable people to do it with. The past few weeks I've been to some totally breathtaking places so I thought I'd share a few pics!

Oh Btw, Eurofurence registration opened and was booked out within an hour or so (sad). I didn't register so won't see you there!

Above: Cane Hill Mental Asylum Ward
 

Back in rainy Wales from Eurofurence. I have a wonderful sore throat.. Apparently someone at the con gave lots of people lurge which was nice...

This year I went to the con with Lev and Redmoor. I'd like to copy the same post everyone else puts up about cons and say "oh it was awesome" but it wasn't. Not to say it was bad either indeed the con was about what I expected. Unfortunately even maintaining a speed of over 100mph on the Autobahn didn't ensure we arrived in time for the opening ceremony or bbq. This year it was nice to see some of my furry hero's there such as Duncan roo and Jedd. The weather behaved itself for most of the time and I even got a tan!

I figured that as I had paid for the extra day 'dead dogs party' at the hotel I simply would not survive the endurance of 4 days stuck at the con site so planned a day to Berlin to investigate the Beelitz abandoned hospital and 1930's Olympic village. They really added a bit of colour to the holiday.
The con itself was the same as any other year with an assortment of mostly monotonous sigs and stage shows consisting of looking at the back of someone’s head. I spent most of the con wandering or sitting in the bar area with people I didn't really know that well. I really feel that more effort should be made to arrange day trips outside the confines of the con but that’s just of course my opinion.

The food was fairly crappy this year and I found myself making trips to Lidl and bringing food back to eat in the room. Despite having no warning from the EF website or via mail on arrival we we're warned not to plug any electrical devices into the room plug's or they would be confiscated! An utterly ridiculous rule which was rectified by simply not allowing room service into the room.

We missed our flight home because of a massive crash on the Autobahn which delayed us by 2 hours and had to fork out 230euros for another flight. Because I really have that sort of money to play with right now -.-

They have just announced that Eurofurence will be held for the 3rd year at the same hotel. That certainly made my deciding if I will be going again a whole lot more easy. I survived another EF but each year it seems a little less special. Time to move on...

There’s been quite a lot of snow on the peaks recently and a few days ago me and some friends climbed the Glyders just a few miles from here. I’ve been up to soooo much in the past few weeks I can’t possibly list it all. I’m totally dizzy ^^ And I have hundreds of things pencilled in already for the next few months.