I’m back in Basel, even if it doesn’t feel like it — it’s only two days before we have to leave for the family reunion, and I have hardly time to relax.

Not that that’s necessarily a bad thing – tonight is the BonJovi concert in Zurich, so Sibylle and I will spend the night there and will have a lot of fun! And I wouldn’t want to miss the days spent with Märrie. I felt so at home with her lovely family and we drove all over the place, seeing countless interesting things (Aachen, replics of the Chinese clay army, a Gothic club, an intact fortress above the Rhine) — and visited my grandparents’ grave to plant a rose tree.

I’d kill for a day at home, but since that’s not to be, I’ll stop complaining and try to do everything that needs doing (for example set up my new digital camera so I can share the few pics I took in Germany, go to the library, answer some emails, go to work, meet up with a friend, and of course pack for Dresden). I’m also trying not to melt in the incredibly heat (32°C).

I’m avoiding the internet at the moment, I simply don’t have the time — and knowing me, once I got started, I wouldn’t be able to stop… But this just had to be.