Ryan Hellyer

WordCamp Translyvania

The organisers of a web development conference called WordCamp Transylvania invited me to come give a presentation at their event. I enjoyed my last trip to Romania so much that I decided to head back again this year. I had never been to Transylvania so it was a great opportunity to see the countryside while I was at it. Everyone I talked to in Bucharest last year told me I would enjoy Transylvania more, and they were correct 🙂 The people are nice and things more move slowly in these parts.

Me at WordCamp Transylvania

Remkus de Vries

Scribu, aka Cristi Burcă, discarding the pizzas on hack day.

Paul Gibbs getting animated

Remkus de Vries discussing business in WordPress

Anda Pop at the hack day

Danish water

Sea ice

There are beautiful lakes all over the city.

The magnificent København mermaid. This apparently won a prize as one of the most overrated tourist venues in Europe.

Kastellet

Kastellet is a picturesque, albeit strange looking “star fortress” in København, Denmark.

København windmills

Denmark has a lot of windmills. They look quite spectacular around København and you can get a good view of them from the train heading from Malmø in Sweden.

First Oslo cycling trip of 2013

With the first weekend of good weather, I took to the hills around Oslo on my mountain bike. This time I went with Ingvild, Live, Kaspars, Baiba and Marco. It was nice to have travelling companions for once 🙂 We started from Frognersetteren and had an easy trip downhill most of the way. We did have a brief uphill excursion through some seriously rough stuff. I don’t think I’m very good at taking it easy and spent most of my time falling off my bike or attempting, and usually failing, to ride through stupidly deep mud. Lots of fun though and we all made it back in one piece 🙂

Some people carried their bikes around the mud. Kaspars found a route which didn’t require going through the mud. I on the other hand am stubborn and decided to go through the mud. Sometimes it worked, some it didn’t 😛 I was a tad muddy by the end of the trip!