And we're back from vacation! We cycled around Denmark for almost three weeks. A total of 1080 Kilometers on our recumbents from København to Århus along a number of the Danish islands and Jylland. We used trains from Utrecht to København and from Århus to København back to Utrecht. The intercitynightline is nice for getting from Utrecht to København in one go. It just takes a big detour of Germany. The intercitynightline and the Danish trains have no problems at all with recumbents. We saw a lot in Denmark, including a visit to Legoland in Billund and the Elmuseet. The weather was ok although we had a number of rainy days. We stayed in hostels, bed and breakfast and a few hotels.
2008-02-11 (#)
Back from the snow! We went for a week of snowboarding in Samoëns, France. Great snow, good weather and no broken bones. We stayed at the Viking Lodge, a very nice and luxurious apartment. Besides snowboarding for real I also played with Amped3 on the xbox 360 in the apartment ;)
2007-08-27 (#)
I really enjoy The Alaska PodShow Podcast. I visited Alaska myself in 2002 and really enjoyed it over there, which makes the alaska podshow a joy to listen to. Recognizable stuff, and things I would like to see on a next visit to Alaska (although I already saw both highways..). I'd like to go back some day (preferably when the US treats visiting tourists less like suspects) because Alaska is beautiful to visit.
2007-08-04 (#)
Back from vacation! We rented recumbent bikes and biked around the Netherlands for three weeks, camping and visiting some friends. The weather cooperated mostly, just some minor rainy days and a few rainshowers.
2007-07-04 (#)
We zijn vandaag bij ligfietser.nl geweest om ligfietsen uit te zoeken voor onze vakantie.
2007-02-05 (#)
Back from snowboard holiday in Morzine, France... didn't break anything, not too much muscle pains and we had a great time! And yes, there was enough snow on the pistes, thanks to the hard work of the people of the Portes du Soleil piste services.
2007-01-24 (#)
I did some hacking today on Snowcam, whacking the stylesheet to differentiate in the order of elements in the html source versus the order of elements on the page, and adding a bunch of webcams at wintersport resorts all over the world, because I'm in the mood for the upcoming wintersport holiday in Morzine. Now looking at snowreports and Morzine webcams daily. I found out that the site looks awful in IE6 and fiddled with the stylesheet until it worked.
2006-10-25 (#)
Wardriving results 9 - 24 October: 1033 new networks with GPS locations. We stayed in a cottage in Schotland last week. Northern England / Schotland has a lot less wireless networks than the Netherlands: On the last part in England of the return trip (area of Edinburg to Newcastle upon Tyne) I saw 86 networks in 3 hours, and in the first half hour in the Netherlands (Ijmuiden to Koog a/d Zaan) I saw 94 networks. Schotland was very nice, we had some nice walks, gazed at the stars (it's a lot darker over there!) and visited several whisky distilleries including a very nice tour of Tomintoul distillery. Tomintoul also has The Whisky Castle where one can spend a fortune on very nice whiskies.
2006-07-03 (#)
We're back home after a great holiday / honeymoon in Iceland! Took a load of pictures, we'll have to make selections before we can put an archive on-line. Coolest thing we did was whale watching where a humpback whale decided to jump near to the boat.
2006-02-12 (#)
Doing some updates to Camp Wireless, finding campsites that advertise as having wireless Internet in the Woodall's guide... just added campsite number 400(!), Hot Springs National Park KOA in Arkansas, USA. It is funny to see the growth in campsites with wireless Internet access.
2006-02-06 (#)
Back from a snowboarding holiday in Tignes, France. No snowboarding accidents. I just slipped on the sidewalk at the last minute and scratched my right hand in a few places. Great snowboarding in Tignes, great weather. I had time to read too, and I decided to reread some books I read ages ago, and review them (again): The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton, In the beginning.. was the command line by Neal Stephenson and At Large: the strange case of the world's biggest internet invasion by David Freedman, Charles Mann. All great books to reread.
2006-01-19 (#)
I made some pictures of my snowboard now it's all put together and waiting for the upcoming trip.
2005-09-10 (#)
And our luggage got delivered too (late yesterday evening). The baggage-handling company at Schiphol seemed to think it was a regular issue with all airlines that luggage got delayed. We thought it was a result of our very short transfer at Toronto Pearson airport: run from airplane, bus to infield terminal, board other airplane, less than 15 minutes left before take-off. Luggage handling at Schiphol seems to like to use the same cryptic codes as everything else in airtraffic, the note attached to the luggage says: CT01 GY01 .CT02 GN08 .CT03 GN29 .CT04 GN64 .DD 09sep.
2005-09-08 (#)
I'm back from a camper holiday in Canada. It was great. Pictures and reports to follow, but first we need our suitcases, because Air Canada did not bring those to Schiphol today.
2005-02-08 (#)
Back from a week of snowboarding in Les Deux Alpes. Had fun, had enough snow and my snowboarding got better. And it was a good holiday.
2004-11-01 (#)
Memories of my Alaska holiday... since then, the FAA has added webcams with the purpose of seeing the current weather state at many airports in Alaska (to aid in planning visual flight rule flights). Nice to get an updated view of the weather when (limited) daylight permits. I see places on those images I visited (ok, if a road is visible and it's in a town I visited, I have been on that road. There aren't that many.)
2004-07-18 (#)
Back from a camping trip in the south of England. My home server decided to panic so webcam.idefix.net was down. I took no laptop on my camping trip so I didn't use or update Camp Wireless. Wireless Internet access on campings in the UK seems non-existant. We did see some coffee houses offer wireless Internet access.
1999-10-26 (#)
I'm back.. I've had a good holiday and rested very well.
1999-10-05 (#)
I'm on vacation! Getting a good rest, relaxing and doing nothing with work.