Amat victoria curam!

Across the street from our hotel is the Victoria & Albert Museum which has one of the finest decorative art collections in the world including a Leighton and some Jacob Sang glasses.

The 39 steps is a new comedy which uses John Buchan's story and Alfred Hitchcock adaptation if it. Only 4 actors play all the roles while using minimal stage props. It was really fun.

The weather in London was terrific so it was time to (re) visit some nice sites (Tower) and to do some serious shopping. The first ever Abercrombie in Europe on Burlington was so crowed that we decided to leave the hour long queue for the cashiers. Jermynstreet was nice and so was Lilly White sports department store.

Joop van den Ende, good for more than $2 billion and ine of the richest persons on this planet, won the Bingo yesterday. He won a brand new Mitsubishi ($15.000). Unfortunately for him: his own company organized the Bingo, so he cannot collect his prize. Poor Joop, I guess he is doomed to keep on driving his Maybach instead... :-)

Still one of the best of the best. Not only as a soccer player but as a person as well.

I had to buy a new motor jacket and pants. I have chosen Rukka this Finnish company has the most advanced high tech clothing you can buy. Kevlar, Goretex, Cordura, Outlast: you name it it's in there. Making the most safe, waterproof breathable clothing on the world.

Players of Ivory Coast after their defeat at the African Soccer Tournament. I guess they lost because they had an other game on their mind... ;-)

Yesterday I was at the cbr site (drivers license authority) and found out that you can make a reservation online to do the theory exam needed for a motor cycle. Because somebody canceled I could do the exam...uh... TODAY!
I rushed to the book store - bought the book with rules, did the exam and passed with only two mistakes (Thanks to www.vekabest.nl) Sunday is my first lesson on the bike...

It was fun to see the new motors for 2008 at the Motor Exhibition at Utrecht today. Ingo was looking at his favorite BMW R 1200 GS (adventure) but found it probably to heavy to put somewhere in Amsterdam.
I was enthousiastic about the Moto Guzzi 1200 - a great naked bike. Eddie liked the BMW F 800.

BUG labs makes it fun and easy to build any gadget you can imagine. Build familiar things like digital cameras and GPS locators
or create new devices. It is all done by clicking modules like a cam, GPS, screen etc.

Thanks to Thijs I came across this nice website with some awesome car cut-aways.

BUSH - CLINTON - BUSH - CLINTON?              OBAMA - change I can believe in!

Meet my new trainer: JohnJohn Diem. 22 years old CIOS graduate and starting this morning: my new PT.