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Last training course I went on was in London and I got us into the Tower Hotel, this was basically the view from my room[^] (without the couple, it wasn't that sort of week).
The training was in Tabernacle Street so the walk was past the Tower, across to the Bank of England, then up Moorgate. Very nice in the summer.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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That hotel used to do an all-you-can-eat buffet (a loooong time ago). I recall eating so much that I was sick. Felt better after that so went back and had some more! Ah, those were the days! 
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair.
Those who seek perfection will only find imperfection
nils illegitimus carborundum
me, me, me
me, in pictures
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The buffet style breakfast was immense.
Hence the need to walk to the training rather than getting the tube.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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On a research park within a nature reserve on the fens.
My lunchtime routine consists of a half hour walk around the nature reserve – I couldn't really ask for anything else.
…and it’s an 18 minute drive from home against the traffic(i.e. hardly any traffic)
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Nice.
Although my knowledge of the fens is limited to reading The Nine Tailors by Dorothy L. Sayers.
From now on I shall imagine you as Lord Peter Wimsey.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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I'm in Oxfordshire, in the Thames valley, nothing particularly special but quite pleasant.
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Iowa, Not interesting at all.
Sunsets and sunrises are pretty though.
Sunset.[^]
Thanks for playing
To err is human to really mess up you need a computer
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Two words: Cotton fields.
On the plus side, the dairy farm is gone.
You'll never get very far if all you do is follow instructions.
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Commuting is as boring here as anywhere however I am 10 minutes walk from here[^] and I have an annual pass!
We also have an office block going up next door, watching the construction can be interesting for a while.
Never underestimate the power of human stupidity
RAH
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I am one of the few lucky people who still have a job in Italy!! 
My office is in a little seaside town in an old nice building with paintings of ships from the renaissance on the ceiling (no kidding!!)
BUT
my boyfriend spent the last year looking for a job and I'm paying all the bills alone: we've been living with 1100 euros per month for almost ten months now... Thank you Italy 
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Been there done that...
Well, not exactly in the tiny little town (Milano is slightly bigger then that) but more referring to payslip part 
Now, I am enjoying 'European Sillicon Valley' (as French use to say) here on Cote d'Azur.
Environment is not bad. Time and space for lot of leisure activities during the lunch break, but if someone wants big town lights - he better get elsewhere.
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Nice! I'd love to work in Cote d'Azur... Yes, one probably doesn't get all the amusements of the big city, but I wouldn't miss them.
Is it true that French companies only hire you if you hold a master degree and won't accept a bachelor? Also, do you think it is important to speak French in order to get a job in software development in Cote d'Azur?
I might try and look for some opportunity there...
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Yes, French are a bit obsessed with the degrees. Even after years of experience they still could check your academic background. But if you do not have masters it does not mean automatically no. At the end I think you always need a little bit of luck...
French language - I would say is not essential, but again it depends on the company. I've met with many people here that can barely ask for a Coke in the restaurant in French (Yes, it is "un Coca") but they still managed to get hired.
Well at least that is my impression...
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ah ok, so I think I should just make some research for the right company, then...
Thank you very much for replying!
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Dycz wrote: my boyfriend spent the last year looking for a job and I'm paying all the bills alone: we've been living with 1100 euros per month for almost ten months now...
Sucks. My wife has been struggling with poor health and although she technically has a job she has only been well enough to work for 9 weeks in the last two years so mine is the only salary. I'm getting real tired of having to live like that.
I hope he finds something soon.
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Sorry to hear about your wife 
At least we're young and some day or another we can just run away to some other place with a growing economy where he could find a whatever job. My friends are almost all gone to the UK now...
Have you ever thought of moving to a cheaper country and work remotely, so that your salary ends up to be valued like two salaries? They say they have good and cheap hospitals and doctors in eastern Europe, and the cost of living there is ridicolous... (but wait until Ukraine stabilizes  )
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Good idea.
It's that or grease my parents' stairs so I can claim my inheritance before they manage to spend it all enjoying themselves. (They were on holiday all last week, and have gone off again for a few days today. I'm going round on my way home from work to raid their kitchen  )
Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.
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Eheh XD parent's kitchen is always to be raid, for it's a fabulous place full of mum's cakes 
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I am at the edge of the forest. And the desert is follow it.
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Nice Pretty Blue Skies...
My first thought was simply that the universe is a mirror... It tells us more about US than it shows about what is around us. Our vision is tainted by our beliefs and our views.
Try role playing while you walk... Try walking while being a 5 year old who does not understand the blight, or how things got there. Or try as a Chinese Exchange Student, or as a criminal looking for a place to hide some stash...
May you have many INTERESTING walks, and come up with a variety of ways to see the world around you!
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I live in Mexico, I live 3 hrs of my people, I came to a city by the type of work that abounds here (Software development), I live alone, I just bought a house, car and debts. My ex-girlfriend just told me to leave.
Most workers are lawyers, accountants, .... not software developers ...
it's boring and uninteresting
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First,
You live indoors? Wow, better off than some people...
You have a car? OMG, 3/4 of china is jealous...
You HAD a girlfriend, 99.999% of TECH GEEKS are Jealous )))
You finally have some time to yourself for your own projects and reading that you could not get to before.
Amazing...
So, you came here for a reason... I hope you set your goals, and you know that in X years, you will not have debt, and you will have met other people. The ONE good thing about lawyers is that they usually know educated people... Some of them are actually good people. A very good friend of mine is a lawyer (most of his friends are NOT lawyers, LOL)...
Obviously I am an optimist. Make a list of the people you went to grade school, high school, or college with... And ask yourself how many would LOVE to trade your current lot in life for theirs. Include, like my school, the ones that were shot and killed, and the ones in prison for life for the killing.
Give me a roof, a safe environment, and a computer, and I can make my own happiness... May you find yours!
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thanks man, I liked your comment 
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I work at a college campus that sits on a beautiful lake. I can't see it from my office but it is less than a five minute walk. In the summer I go swimming on my lunch break.
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I work just outside Stellenbosch in the winelands of South Africa. I'm always planning to take photos of the wonderful area, but I never get round to it. Our offices face the mountains around Stellenbosch (and the little low cost housing area next door).
My 45-minute commute against traffic from Cape Town to work passes Cape Town Internation airport, goes through the densest informal housing areas of Cape Town, passed the Cape Town Film Studio and and then meanders through strawberry farms and vineyards.
The film studio has life sized old wooden sailing ships (think Pirates of the Caribbean) outside, and when I drove home the other day they were filming on one of the ships. They were holding up these three huge green screens just off to the side of the one ship
I'm moving closer to work soon, to live in a small cottage on a smallholding amongst the vineyards and strawberry farms.
Before that I worked on the 18th floor of a high rise in Cape Town (which doesn't have many high rises) and I had the most awesome view of Cape Town Harbour. I'd go into the office early to watch the tugs bring in the huge ships.
Suddenly low internet speeds and bad signal doesn't seem like such a big deal anymore
Ri
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