Take Off Getting Closer

Wednesday evening saw us head into Mooloolaba and eat at The Spirit Of Tibet restaurant. As usual the food was outstanding. It also allowed me to pick up a couple of 2GB SD cards for the new camera from a Maroochydore supplier. Thursday was again spent charging batteries for cameras, booking transport from here to Brisbane Airport, notifying banks we would be travelling overseas and crossing a few more things off the Things To Do list.

Daytime temps in London at the moment vary from 12 to 20 degrees. Overnight are still 'single' figures. Rome is experiencing mid 20's, all of which is having an impact on what clothes we are taking.

We fly out at 12;30 pm on Wednesday May 7th.

We both continue to get our daily bike ride in and organize the house for being away, set up pool cleaning with a neighbour, have bins put away after we go etc. I have bought a 'new' padlock for the side gate ... these sorts of things to tie up loose ends. This is a photo of the Bellvista Lake we ride our bikes around most mornings.

I am currently downloading my movies as P2P and I am using a program called Azureus. Like Firefox, you can add features to Azureus to make your downloading safer and more interesting. I have added an Azureus plugin called "Safepeer". Downloading movies is illegal and certain agencies (usually USA movie houses) scan the web and spy upon people who are using P2P to swap movies all around the world. If you are caught your ISP is contacted and they are required to issue you with a warning. Some say three warnings and then you asked to leave that ISP!

The Azureus plugin Safepeer imports a list of websites which do the 'spying' and then is able to protect your downloading from their eyes. Very nifty!