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Woke up today to find a beautiful white blanket of snow covering everything on the streets. Since this is a scenario I’m really not used too I had to take some pictures and found this one particularly funny because of the marks on the snow.

Check the ESOC notice board for house rent ads.

Note: Contrary to what one could expect the Internet thing for house rental in Germany/Darmstadt isn’t that great. Although there are many ads on-line, they are all posted (or being advertised) by an agency and if you through an agency you’ll most likely be charged one whole month of rent for it.

Went to see this movie today. Found a cinema that displays films in English right in the center of Darmstadt!

Rosetta is a European Space Agency-led robotic spacecraft mission launched in 2004 intended to study the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. It will arrive at the comet in May 2014.

Mars Express is a Mars exploration mission of the European Space Agency and the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. It was launched on June 2, 2003. It has been successfully performing scientific measurements since Early 2004, and will stay until (at least) May 2009.

Venus Express is the first Venus exploration mission of the European Space Agency. It is currently in orbit around Venus and collecting scientific data. It was launched on November 9, 2005, and will continue until (at least) May 2009.

 What went wrong?

- Had to pay for extra luggage weight.

- Took about one hour to find the bus from Frankfurt to Darmstadt.

What went right?

- Darmstadt seems to be a quiet place, with lot of trees, clean air and bicycles!

- The trip from Frankfurt by bus is direct, takes about 20min and one-way tickets are 7€.

- Found a nice place to have dinner, an Italian restaurant that has ‘Tri Di Pasta’ by 8.50€.

From the people I talked until now, the taxi driver was the only that didn’t knew English. When I told him I was from Portugal he said: “Benfica! Eusébio!”. To which I replied: “Mourinho! Chelsea!”.

I’am excited with the opportunity here but I’m also tired as yesterday night I went to sleep only around four o’clock, after helping out Ana with some stuff and finishing packing up.

Photos from the past year working at YDreams..

This is where I going to stay for the first month. It’s a hotel that has apartments for rent.

The last few days have been pretty relaxed. Sleeping till late, slacking at the computer and doing whatever I want to do. I’ve also been taking care of the details of my next aventure, the whole experience of working and living abroad for undetermined time. I will fly to Germany next Saturday (15th of March).