zondag 25 oktober 2009
An autumn Sudnay afternoon walk in de Drunense duinen
Today, we wnet for a walk in de Drunense duinen, it is an area which is carefully watched by "staats bosbeheer", you find all diferent kinds of trees, but the population of pine trees is the biggest, this area has also dunes, wich is very strange, as Drunen is a place in the middle of the country and you can not see any sea for almost 100 kilomters.
The area is a very beautiful area, it is being used for many purposes, there are special biking paths, horse riding tracks, moutain bike tracks, walking path's and wlaking tracks, but most important of all, no cars are allowed in this forest/dunes.
on the edges of this forest/dunes you will find a number of cafe's/restaurants where you can take a rest, have a drink and something too eat, they also have as,all play ground for the children to play in.
For us it is only a 5 to 10 minutes drive by car or 15 till 20 minutes by bike to one of the cafe's/restaurants where we can park the car and continue by foot., that is what we did today, we parked the car at "de 3 Linden" en coninued walking into the forest, this time we did not take the tarmac walking/biking path, but we took the walking track and we were able to shoot some nice autumn pictures.
donderdag 22 oktober 2009
Mountain biking in the Drunense duinen
This afternone we went moutain biking in the Drunense duinen again, we already did half of the track in the past weeks, so this time we started halfway, to take the second half of the track.
The weather was good for moutain biking in the woods, in the mornig it rained a bit and the rest of the day was dry, the sun did not shine, but the temperature was o.k., of course the temperature was much lower than in summertime but with a temperature of 14 degrees and dressed for this temperature it was great riding the mountainbike track.
It was noticable that after practicing for a few weeks, the feeling with the track, with the bike, with the gears and with the shoe clickers has improved, also the strength when riding up the hills has improved, which gives you more satisfaction rding the track.
With the change from summertime to wintertime it will be more difficult to go for a mountainbike ride during the week, but if the chance is there, we will defenately go for a ride again.
After a 1,5 hour drive we went back home again with a good feeling, we had to work hard, but it paid off, also the total condition of the body improves and recovering from this straining is good (my spinning lessons are a good bisis for this too).
The weather was good for moutain biking in the woods, in the mornig it rained a bit and the rest of the day was dry, the sun did not shine, but the temperature was o.k., of course the temperature was much lower than in summertime but with a temperature of 14 degrees and dressed for this temperature it was great riding the mountainbike track.
It was noticable that after practicing for a few weeks, the feeling with the track, with the bike, with the gears and with the shoe clickers has improved, also the strength when riding up the hills has improved, which gives you more satisfaction rding the track.
With the change from summertime to wintertime it will be more difficult to go for a mountainbike ride during the week, but if the chance is there, we will defenately go for a ride again.
After a 1,5 hour drive we went back home again with a good feeling, we had to work hard, but it paid off, also the total condition of the body improves and recovering from this straining is good (my spinning lessons are a good bisis for this too).
maandag 19 oktober 2009
Arinta's Clothes
Today, my colleague Patrick returned from his Business trip to Jakarta (Indonesia), Mumbai (india) and Colombo (Sri Lanka).
During is trip, he visited Arinta in Jakarta, where he had a good time, having a drink, dinner and good music, I gave him some souvenirs, which he handed over to Arinta.
Arinta gave him something too, a suitcase with "some" clothes, which he would bring to the Netherlands and hand over to me.
This morning he handed over the suitcase to me, when I was home later that day I opened up the suitcase with surprise of all the clothes that came out of the suitcase; winter jackets, trousers, tanktops, sweaters, fleece vests, t-shirts, jackets all very nice clothes.
As a cherry on the cake Arinta also put in 3 very nice t-shirts for me, thanks cinta.
After taking out all the clothes I put the winter jackets on the peg and the other clothes on hangers in our bedroom to ventilate.... now our bedroom lokes like a (womens) clothing shop, womens clothes all over the bedroom, I can imagine that Arinta has hardly any clothes to wear, as most of her clothes must be in Holland (or will I get another surprise the next time Arinta come to Holland...?).
I am happy that Arinta is comming back to Holland piece by piece, but prefer the real Arinta above the clothes....
Well we know that we are working on the future, Arinta is doing a great job with the Dutch course, which she started on October 5th and ending noverber 10th, after which she will start with the second course shortly after ending the first and also apply for her "inburgerings" exam, if everything goes well the exam will be shortly after ending the second course, hopefully Arinta would be doing her exam begin of december.
It is good we are making small steps ahead and have some dates and point to focus on, which will make the seperation and the longing for each other more bearable, if one step is finished, we can look forward to the next, one step closer to each other.
During is trip, he visited Arinta in Jakarta, where he had a good time, having a drink, dinner and good music, I gave him some souvenirs, which he handed over to Arinta.
Arinta gave him something too, a suitcase with "some" clothes, which he would bring to the Netherlands and hand over to me.
This morning he handed over the suitcase to me, when I was home later that day I opened up the suitcase with surprise of all the clothes that came out of the suitcase; winter jackets, trousers, tanktops, sweaters, fleece vests, t-shirts, jackets all very nice clothes.
As a cherry on the cake Arinta also put in 3 very nice t-shirts for me, thanks cinta.
After taking out all the clothes I put the winter jackets on the peg and the other clothes on hangers in our bedroom to ventilate.... now our bedroom lokes like a (womens) clothing shop, womens clothes all over the bedroom, I can imagine that Arinta has hardly any clothes to wear, as most of her clothes must be in Holland (or will I get another surprise the next time Arinta come to Holland...?).
I am happy that Arinta is comming back to Holland piece by piece, but prefer the real Arinta above the clothes....
Well we know that we are working on the future, Arinta is doing a great job with the Dutch course, which she started on October 5th and ending noverber 10th, after which she will start with the second course shortly after ending the first and also apply for her "inburgerings" exam, if everything goes well the exam will be shortly after ending the second course, hopefully Arinta would be doing her exam begin of december.
It is good we are making small steps ahead and have some dates and point to focus on, which will make the seperation and the longing for each other more bearable, if one step is finished, we can look forward to the next, one step closer to each other.
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