The Lansdhuter Hochzeit is a huge celebration that takes place every 4 years in Landshut, Bavaria. It celebrates the wedding of George the Rich (son of the Duke of Landshut) and Jadwiga (daughter of the King of Poland) which took place in 1475.

For this occasion, a big part of the Landshuters are letting their hair grow and dress-up like people did then. Everything must look authentic and comply to the strict rules of the association that organizes the event. A small village is also built to reconstruct the way things looked like at that time and how people celebrated this wedding by eating, drinking and watching the infamous knight fights.

The result is a beautiful city full of colors and people celebrating this ancestral ceremony with lots to drink and eat.

I took plenty of pictures and put a small selection online: http://www.flickr.com/photos/frenchfrog/sets/72157621624331263/

Doing a small search for “laho” will show you a few more…

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Sorry for the inconvenience caused.

The move is now done – although not as smoothly as I had hoped it would!

Let me know if you see anything acting weird on the site…

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Wishing you a (belated) Happy New Year 2009!

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As you can see, I currently use it as a way to publish information like articles I find interesting, some cool tips, things I am doing at work, share some thoughts and share the love (sometimes hate, too). That’s the one side of it.

The second side is that I can follow other people. People who for example focus on posting technology news, links to project management articles, French cuisine recipes, photography tips, computer games reviews and so on… And that’s the interesting part: I get these short messages directly delivered to me (per IM).

On one hand I am always getting content on stuff I am interested in, and on the other hand I share my discoveries with other people – the former being the most addictive part of it all. If you are keen on learning new things, Twitter could be a good place to start!

My verdict so far – Yes to Twitter, but abusing the service could impact severely on productivity as there is a lot of noise on Twitter! Select carefully who you are going to follow!

I have been pretty busy lately and didn’t have much time (or probably didn’t take that time) to write anything.

In short, a nice mix of cultural activities, personal and professional challenges… You can see some pictures over on Flickr I uploaded a while ago (Trip to Paris and Bayern Munich game against BVB Dortmund). Busier than ever at work, which I guess is a good sign!

Nothing more to tell you for now, I will probably post more in the next few weeks (the fact that I write this here may somehow force me to do it :) )… Let’s see!

If you have no time for such activity but still would like to know what the heck is going on, I regularly update my link blog which collects and displays items I have read and found interesting from my feeds. A condensate of content, just for you… :)

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