Day 100 - the first 100 days in office!

Day 100 - (tues) the 100 day milestone
Usually more of a political timeframe but I've decided that on my 100th day away from home (or at least when it appears in my blog!) I shall pause to reflect on what has been achieved. So here's a quick wrap:

Countries visited: 8 (including the autonomous states of the Vatican and Monaco! everyone counts right?)

Landmarks seen: highlights include Eiffel Tower, Louvre, Versailles, Notre Dame, Colloseum and Roman ruins, Vatican, Acropolis, Sagrada Familia (Barcelona Church) ... (and very shortly after my 100 day mark: Brandenburg Gate, Reichstag, old Berlin Wall/East Side Gallery, Holocaust Memorial and Anne Frank's House)

Languages spoken (or should I say, attempted speaking): English (its not as good as it used to be with all these external influences!!), French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, German, Swedish, Korean - I've got at least a few words in each, that counts for something right?!?!

Courses taken (and, more importantly, passed!): 2

Bouts of homesickness: 2 serious ones

Bouts of actual sickness: 4 bloody colds!!

Most money spent on: toss up between travel and medicine!!!

Postcards sent: 4

Postcards received: 1 (pick up the pace people!! :P) (although there was also that box of Haighs chocolates!)

Pairs of shoes broken: 2

Bikes bought: 1 (Moo Mobile still going strong)

Bikes broken: 0 (YES! this is a special achievement given almost everyone else's bike has had something go wrong with it - touch wood)

Bike stacks: just one...

New favourite foods discovered: BILLIONS - stroopwaffels, speculoos spread (think biscuit taste but in spread-form - makes even the most boring piece of wholegrain bread taste delicious), poffejes mmmm, warm red cabbage and apple (yep, its actually tasty the Dutch way)

Seasons of crappy TV downloaded to my laptop and watched: 4 (there was a lot of bus time on Contiki!!)

Blogs: 42 (including this one)

So there you have it, get the picture?
Until this point I've been recounting pretty much every day because pretty much everyday has been adventure, thrown up something new/funny/terrible/blogworthy. But as I start to settle into this life some days are just.... days, you know? So a change of tact/tack (never sure which one it is!) from now... although everyday is interesting to me, its probably not to you so, so from now on you'll just get the highlights :)
The trips away, the hilarious happenings, the momentous moments... you get it.
For now, as the Dutch say "tot gauw" (if you've been reading you'll know what that means :P)