I went for a walk around the town today - needed to get out of the apartment to buy some food, so thought I would have a wander around. I ended up at the Domkyrk, the cathedral in Linkoping. I took some pictures, but have forgotten to bring my usb cable out here with me, so they'll have to wait til next weekend when I go home to get a cable. Anyway, as I wandered around, I heard this grating, graunching noise, which I couldn't fathom. Eventually, I realised that clock at the top of the main tower, had the noisiest mechanism the world has ever seen. You've heard the phrase, so quiet you could hear a clock ticking, this was more like so loud, all you could hear was the clock ticking. Anyway, I thought, as it was about 11:58 at this point, if the mechanism is that loud, its bound to have a great chime.... so I waited around for the hour to strike, and you know what - it was the lamest chime I've ever heard, barely any louder than the mechanism, and I don't reckon you could have heard it outside of the surrounding plaza.
Have discovered the joys of peer to peer internet streaming today - I think its going to be a god send, as I can watch english football and rugby without having to head to the pub to do so.
It got to the point where I had watched far too much though, so I abandoned it and finished off my book, Robert Harris' The Ghost. As always with Harris, was a realistically constructed study of something that could have happened - has made me want to go back and read Fatherland, which was the first of his books that I read - which describes a scenario where Germany won the second world war. There is always enough in these books to make you think, and a taut fast paced plot to make you keep reading. Highly recommended for a read.
Starting to panic that I haven't brought enough reading material with me.
about to start my next one...
cheers all.
AG
currently reading: C.J Sansom - Dissolution
currently listening: Ryan Adams & The Cardinals - Cold Roses
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I'll get Waterstones to arrange an air-drop for you...
ReplyDeletenot like you not to have a decent pub as yet, have your standards gone up from the farmers arms and the navigation?
ReplyDeleteits not particularly that my standards have gone up - but there is a sliding scale - a pub either has to be good, or have cheap beer ( both is better). Farmers, and the Navigation had the cheap beer sorted. Irish house in denmark was quality, but expensive, a bit like the Met. The only pub I've been in here, was not veyr good and expensive.
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