We’re in the middle of packing things up for our next big move (Dunedin, NZ!), saying goodbyes to all our favourite places and people.
One of those places we wanted to say goodbye to was nearby Barcelona – the location for my amazing two-month Ironhack experience and many visits since as well as many friends. Continue reading Barcelona for the weekend
We had a brilliant vacation – loads of fun, friends and good food! I had so much fun I pretty much forgot to take photos, actually. Nevertheless there are a few, so click here to see the whole set of photos on flickr.
Next week Tom’s brother and his girlfriend will arrive in Europe. They’ll be here for just over two weeks only, so we’ve decided to take them to two of our favourite places – Barcelona and Amsterdam.
We’ll spend a few days here in Montpellier, but although it’s a nice little city, it’s not very interesting for visitors. They will be our first visitors since we moved to France and I’m super excited for the chance to return to both Barcelona and Amsterdam.
We don’t really have any plans for what we will do, but I’m guessing we’ll be mostly focussed on eating delicious food, drinking delicious coffee and tasting lots of beers and wines. I think we’ll rent bikes in Amsterdam and maybe (if the weather is ok!) ride out to Haarlem one day. In Barcelona I would like to visit a museum or two since we have about a week there.
I’m also particularly looking forward to seeing all the BCN-based Ironhackers again! I miss their faces!
I added a new photoset to Flickr for Barcelona in August. Click here to see the photos. There aren’t as many as I would have liked because we were so busy at Ironhack I simply didn’t have time!
I also added a few more to the end of the Barcelona July set.
So this week marks the final chapter in my Ironhack Bootcamp. It’s been a ride, that’s for sure! Last week we started our Final Projects – a web development project of our own choosing and structure. On Friday we present our projects and then on Saturday I head back to Real Life in Montpellier.
No project is the same as another, so it’s a really diverse mix of technologies and approaches. My project is a riff on the AirBnB model but for specialty bicycles and is built on Ruby on Rails with the front-end based on the Foundation framework. My approach was focussed on getting the main back-end functionality completed before beginning the front and that worked pretty well in my case. Continue reading The home stretch