Christmas 2005

Christmas 2005 was celebrated this year in Legnica, Poland with Jola's parents. Polish Christmas is full of traditions like eating carp and drinking 'compote'. And of course, giving each other presents. Lots of fun in a nice atmosphere.

Kerstmis 2005 hebben we gevierd in Legnica, Polen samen met Jola's ouders. Het Poolse Kerstfeest zit vol met tradities zoals het eten van karper en het drinken van 'compote', in ons geval een sap van gerookte pruimen. En natuurlijk tijd voor kadootjes. Erg gezellig allemaal. 

Showing Jerry

In november we visited my parents to show Jerry for the first time to them. And of course, they loved him. It was a nice day with them. Drinking some wine, playing some guitar, and singing some songs.

In november brachten we een bezoekje aan mijn ouders om Jerry voor het eerst te showen. En natuurlijk waren ze helemaal weg van hem. Het was een gezellige dag. Een beetje wijn, een beetje gitaar, en wat liedjes 

Our office in Poland

Yep, indeed, now it goes fast, very fast, and sometimes it feels like too fast. Without being able to give too much details of what is going on I can at least tell you that I signed a rental contract for a 90 square meters office in Wrocław.
So it's now official, we have an address for our office in Poland:
Variomatic Media Sp. z o.o.
Ul. Ślężna 146-148
53-111 Wrocław
Poland

It has 4 big rooms and place for a small kitchenette.
We're very happy with it and will go round 5 December to Poland to furnish it.

But it goes fast indeed, and also privately now we have to arrange a lot. Mail forwarding, cancelling insurances, cancelling newspapers, etc. And all the things that pop up in your head during the day. Looking forward to it, but it will be busy, very busy.

Jerry - the first week

So we collected when we were in Poland also our 3 months old labrador Jerry. The first week was a week full of joy, aggrevation, and accidents of him peeing or pooping inside Jola's parents' house. But mainly... a lot of joy and love.
But, indeed when you have a puppy you have to think about a lot of things: is his food right, is his poo not too thin, should he not sleep more, does he have the right toys, is a bench a good idea, etc..
On the way back we were very proud of him. 9,5 hours in the car without peeing or pooing in the car, and mainly sleeping in the back. Such a good dog (dobre pies!).

Visit to Poland

Last week, we've been to Poland again. Nowadays it's still nice, but more work related than anything else. We've been busy with finding a suitable office location for Variomatic Poland. So Jola and I visited together about 10 locations varying from very old with lots of renovation needed to completely renovated and ready to go locations.
But in the end we think it has been fruitful, as we have found one location that we think could really be it. 90 square meters and just renovated, which means that from 1st December on we can start to furnish it and then we have our office there. Stil need a final go from the rest of the management here in Holland, but I don't foresee any problems there.
This indeed also means that it gets closer and closer that we ourselves move to Poland. Order is to first have office location and then start to look for ourselves and in the meantime we can sit either in Jola's flat in Legnica or temporary with her parents.
Exciting times! But sometimes also a bit scary.