I have been away from home last weekend. I am a bit tired and wanted to take a little hike with my brother, just to relax. Finally we took the bikes out and went on the way. Wireless…
We took a Nokia E61, a Palm Treo 680, a standard gsm, a Magellan SporTrak Color (handheld) GPS and a QStarZ Bluetooth GPS ‘mouse’.

You wonder why we took all this ? We wanted to go out and play a worldwide high tech game: Geocaching (dutch: here).

People always want to travel to the other side of the world to see how life is overthere… And there is nothing wrong with that. I mean this is great. It grows more understanding for others I think…
The problem is that people (including me) don’t know what there is to see within say 50 km from there own home. That is a pity…

Don’t you agree? Tell me… With pictures if you can!

I have been to the UK the day before yesterday. I have mixed feelings about it.

I went to Newcastle with my brother, just to get a breath of fresh air… So we did… The crossing by ship wasn’t our best experience, but the best choice to get a real good breath of that fresh air…
I didn’t do my homework right, because it was an spontanious action to take the boat. Newcastle was a small size city to my opinion.
On the boat we discovered it was more than this… Nice… We like old history….

The last time I have been to the UK was about 5 years ago. That was London, but the feeling was the same, I do remember.

My observations:

- British girls are - generalized - cheap, use tons of (bad coloured and wrongly used) war paint and are therefore very unattractive, They are loud and quite some alcohol.
- British lads are - not generalized - agressive, real ugly and drink much too much alcohol, in liters I mean.

And the both have a predilection for sports shoes and tracksuits or a jeans and a t-shirt of a football/soccer team

I always had the idea of the British being soffisticated, clean and well-mannered. This is what the movies tell us, but nothing of that. Even at Marks & Spencer, a favorite of mine because the enormous choice of food I was surpised. People just leave the coffee cups on the table and don’t trow them away… I was (really!) shocked!

But I am not sure whether my observation is fair and that it was a a cross selection of the population in the whole UK. But why not?!

I am a bit puzzled…

Thanx you, Nespresso

Orange is not my most favorite colour (for that, look here), but I think its very nice in this picture. But that’s what I think…

I hope you like it too! Even while it is rust, loads (and I mean loads!) of rust! :-D

Weather Alarms (read: warning) are new to us… But all sorts of ALARM are new to us, I must say. Two weeks ago we had our first Strong Wind Alarm.

Okay, we had a little more snow that average. The average is about 0,5 cm high. Today it would have been about 2 cm, I think… It is almost gone already… That’s the back side of it. It is a wet mess now.

Forgot to tell you. Talked about it before. I did get my new Panasonic DMC-FX3 two days ago. I like it! It makes good quality pix at 2:3, 4:3 or 16:9 and looks great too!