Category Archives: Personal

Personal, Friends and Family related stuff.

Fixing the dryer! Adventures of an amateur technician.

A few weeks ago, the motor of my laundry dryer started stuttering, sometimes making a humming noise, sometimes stopping all together. I’ve only had this/a dryer for a couple of years –it was my mother’s before–, so I thought: all … Continue reading

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Walking in the Eifel

Very rainy but ghostly beautiful walk during our week’s stay near Monschau.

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Volvo HQ Alicante

While the Volvo Ocean 65’s were in Scheveningen, we were Spain. A somewhat unfortunate planning and not surprisingly there weren’t too many people around the Volvo Ocean Race HQ in Alicante. Nice to have a look around though πŸ™‚

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The Sweetest Thing

Amazed and bewildered when looking at our little son πŸ™‚

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10K run

Laan van Meerdervoort Loop 2013: Kilometer 5: Dunes Kilometer 8-10: Sandy beach with bft. 7 Otherwise pretty good speed πŸ™‚   After the final 3 km through loose sand with ridiculous head winds, uphill to Kijkduin… and picture time!!!

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Home to work

Very happy with the new office πŸ˜€ Bicycle trip is very doable and refreshing.

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No valley too deep, no mountain too high.

β€œIt is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.”.Β  Well, my sister did just that. She turned a perceived weakness of physical performance into an ability to be proud of. Anything is possible now. It may even be that pigs … Continue reading

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Just installed

Just installed wordpress to replace my old plain html website. I hope to be able to put stuff online easier this way. Hold on while I try to figure out how this all works…

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