This year I was not able to secure a place in Google summer of code, partly because the organization for which I wanted to work (to which I owed work) didn’t make it through the application process (seems Google is more interested in giving project with social nature more chance). Instead I came across an the opportunity of working along a client of a previous employer of mine on a project in which I had some insights. The project is currently in testing and integration phase and has plans of an open source release this year of which I will be part of. I will fill in the details about the project later, but it is sufficient to say that it’s a Spring/Hibernate application 
So to work closely with the project owner I flew in from Gothenburg to Dusseldrof-Weez and came via train to Antwerp. The journey it’s self has some painful stories. I left Gothenburg on 27th of May after handing in my last e-Health assignment (which I passed and got maximum grade in the course). I got late for the city Airport bus and was forced to take another bus which dropped me off 3 kms away from the town. I had to drag my stuff on the highway if it was not for the help of a Swede who drove me off to the airport on his car (some airport employee, nice fellow).
Catching the cheap RyanAir flight and landing in Germany was uneventful. I had to take a rather expensive transport to the train station in Venlo, Nethrlands from where I got train to Antwerp. But on my way just before Rotterdam I missed getting off on the station (as it was a quick stop) and had to catch a train coming back (there by wasting almost an hour). But all in all I got here safe and sound and was picked up by a colleague.
I have a decent place to crash for the few weeks here (pictures here) I also snapped few pictures of Antwerp and will be posting them here on my Flickr page.
PS: I have decided to stop delaying blog posts for quality, as it means I don’t blog at all. I guess quality of blog will improve with time (just like quality of code 
