winny’s blog

Although it’s already a couple of days ago, I’m showing here some pictures of last weekend.
Paul was still here (back to Curacao now) and he wanted to see one of Wubbo’s projects in execution. Making energie with kites.

And of course I don’t want to miss that too. So we went to Groningen, the very northern part of the Netherlands, where students were doing some experiments.

The kite is fixed to a truck and steerd by remote controll. It is far more efficient in making energie than a windmill.
Read more in this Dutch article

We stayed overnight in a hotel that was very luxurious and completely in style of the time the buildings were build, with very pritty details and, conveniently, a whirlpool the size of a footballfield.

On my way back home (Paul stayed in the aria) on Sunday, I visited my brother and his family.

Aren’t they pretty? My two lovely nieces.

The pictures yesterday were made with Google Earth, everybody knows that by now. But there is something new build in; the universe.

If you go to a destination on the earth, Entrepot Harbour for example, and then click on the sky button in Google Earth, this is what you see. That is, what you might see if the sky was very clear and there were no lights in the neighbourhood.

On this beautiful day I have been sailing to Brielle. Very old town and a good day trip.
It took us about three hours to get there. Through a lock, to prevent the tide from the Maas to go in.

Brielle is recognised by its specific tower without a point.

Picture this, Briele 2007. Adjusting the ropes of your boat and bending down to do that. And where do you think your glasses end up? Down indeed, in the water between rampart and ship.

Ok, no big deal, they have shops in Briele and they do sell glasses. So fifteen minutes later it was fixed, I could read again, so let’s just forget about the whole thing….

And so, arriving back home, in the marina in Rotterdam, I again forgot about my glasses en yes, the new ones, the ones I had used for only 3 hours, are at the bottom of the Entrepot Harbour.

When you’re over forty you need an optical divice, is there also something for shrinking brains?

The celebration of the tenth aniversery of our Entrepot building has started.
Yesterday there were two chanty choirs. They sing songs of the sea, ish…. Luckely they had made some arrangements amongst the two of them, so they did not sang at the same time. But I must admit, it was realy cool. Al these choir members were having such a good time.
The public too but there was hardly any. We hope next time, that is next thursday, there will be more.

They told me there is a place vaccant for an accordion player, a female one. So if you are interested, just let me know.

Theo is on holliday. But you know how he is, gadgets all over.

This is the trip they made today. In the mountains of Grand Canaria.

I made some videos of course while traveling. With the photocamera, so don’t expect much quality. but for now I’m only trying to get it on the internet.

so let’s see if this one will work.

Voetjesbrug

The Watermeid is back home. I wrote in june about taking her to Barendrecht for varnishing. Last monday we brought her back in.
It is good to have her back!
And this time with a perfectly fitting cover. Sheds from the rain and polution but it is a pitty that you can’t see the beauty of here anymore.

The dashboard is new also. Looking very good too.

This weekend were the formula 1 cars racing in the streets of the city of Rotterdam.
I could hear them very loud at home.
People did everything to see them going

It appears to be that it was a very wise decision to sail away from Jolly Harbour, to a save place.
Tropical strom Dean is becomming a hurricane and is on its way to Antigua. You don’t want to be there when it hits ground. We phoned to friends over there, but they are not verry worried although people are taking precausions.

It looks like it is passing Curacao and the Grote Meid is save where it is.