Earthquake in Iceland without me...

What a bummer, I wish I'd been home and felt it!! It was quite big 6.1-6.2 on the Richter scale and only 50 km from Reykjavík. People are already camping in the town of Hveragerði, which is very close to the source. They are just too afraid to be inside since there are constantly small earthquakes and they are expecting another big one.

Lots of damages on houses, roads, bridges etc...

These earthquakes are not connected to the volcanoes, in the case of volcanic eruption Im going home in a second, will NOT miss that :)

This can't be more Oxford :)


The big rowing competition (Summer Eights) between colleges, people picnicking everywhere by the river drinking Pimms (what?) and cheering for their rowing team. Didn't bring my camera so I stole this pic from the Exeter college team, hope they don't mind since I will be staying there for two weeks in June ;)

I have to recommend an Oxford band that is really good, they are called Stornoway, very very good and funny :) Check out the Good fish guide !!

BBC- to be or not to be?

After saying no to the BBC (why did I do that in the first place WHYY?) my workmate urged me to contact them again and ask if the placement was still open. So I did and they kept me waiting for almost a week before they said that it was ok and that I could come the last 2 weeks of May. They just wanted to talk to the producer and see if these exact dates would be ok. Confident that this would work out I headed to my friend Sigga in Edinburgh and then found out that the whole crew will be away this whole time !!! It seems like its not meant to happen but they asked me to reapply and I could possible go there in September for few weeks... I don't know what I will do, the main reason why I want to go now is to find out what characters BBC contains. Are they animal lovers or just film lovers?

So here I am in Edinburgh and wow what a city :) Last night me and Sigga went on a ghost tour where we were taken down the vaults and cemetery and told (true) ghost stories in the darkness. The guide was such a good storyteller that at one point she said BOOO in the middle of a sentence and I totally panicked and started laughing hysterically :D Has never happened to me before. Very scary stuff and very scary city in the old times. But I'm loving it and will enjoy the city for one more day. Tomorrow I am heading towards Oxford again, will miss the Scottish highlands for sure but it will be good to start reading up for my project.

Im in Inchnadamph :) Great great hostel on the west coast with a great name and lovely people :) Im working on my own this week and its just great to drive in the countryside and check the mink rafts for footprints. Life can't be better, actually yes since I have been accepted for a PhD course in POLAND in June yayyy :) I also got the very very very late offer to come and work for the BBC Natural History Unit, finally they have a place for me but since Im in Scotland for another month I cant go :( How different my life would be if I had gone there in September like they first offered... I probably wouldn't have gone to Madagascar and therefore I might not have started having doubts about wildlife film making...
But, Im very happy where I am now in life and hopefully I will get another chance with the BBC later in the year.