Amat victoria curam!

I am been thinking where to go with my new Tenere. This is what I have in mind / planned...

1) WWI trip through Belgium and northern France.
2) Trip to German Thuringen (Weimar Colditz, Wartburg)
3) Nordkap - Sweden en Norway
4) Sierra Nevada - Spain
5) Agadir - Marocco
6) Yorkshire Dales - England
7) Aubrac - France
8) Washington State - USA
9) Chilean coast
10) Route 66 - USA

I collected my brand new Yamaha XT660Z Tenere this morning and went on a nice (but cold) trip arround the Lek river. So I came across the city of Nieuwpoort where in 1600 a famous battle was fought against the Spanish army (and won!).

This and dozens of other questions are being answered athe  the New Scientist "Last Word" Column. Its one of my favorite websites. It's a mix of wit, insight and scientific curiosa. TLW's most prolific answerer by far is one Jon Richfield, a retired
computer scientist in Stellenbosch, South Africa. His first reaction to TLW's riddles is often "No clue!" or "Who cares?"
Then "the next thing you know, it's 'Oh, well, let's have a go.'" This
has happened about 300 times...

One of the best stories of WWII: the devastation of the heavy water plant at Rjukan in Norway. The Germans made D20 in order to build an atomic bomb. Because of clever intelligence and outstanding survival technics the plant was destroyed. The movie with Kirk Douglas is mostly a fantasy, I am reading the book and viewing the TV series by Ray Mears called the REAL heroes of Telemark and it is still after all those years amazing stuff.

Eddie holds his first exhibition show at Naarden. Together with No he will show his collection for the next five days. It looks rather professional doesn't it?

Lois Pryce is quit a girl: she left everything she had to bike from Alaska to the southern Tip of Chile. She wrote a very funny novel about her trip in the style of Bridget Jones's Diary. I cannot wait for her second book in which she travels from London to Capetown.

1) In which we Serve
2) Dambusters
3) Bridge of the river Kwai
4) Lawrence of Arabia
5) The great escape
6) Colditz
7) The Guns of Navarone
8) Casablanca
9) The heroes of Telemark
10) Von Ryans' Express

We had a lovely dinner with our dear friends at Scarlett Restaurant. We talked about life and the ups and downs that are involved.

A US Airways plane with 155 people on board ditched into a chilly
Hudson River on Thursday, apparently after striking at least one bird
upon takeoff from New York's LaGuardia Airport. The pilot was the first ever to land a commercial plane successfully on water...

Just installed Pinger: This new app manages and communicates with contacts on the
iPhone as well as Twitter, Myspace and Facebook friends. You can see the IM status of your contacts and Pinger will give
the option of calling, texting, emailing or IMing them right from the iphone: all in 1 single app - FREE :-))

TV commercial for the new Honda Fury motor cycle :-)

George Bush is almost gone - Hurray!. He's trying to spin his way into history with leaflets like "Highlights of Accomplishments and Results". It won't work... OK I see one thing this man did actually right: He was the first statesmen who spend money on Aids. So let's hope that Obama will change everything expect for that.

I thought it would be fun to record my 5K runs at the gym. Whenever I am not training with JohnJohn (usually 3 times a week) I go and run - so on average 4 times a week at least 5 kilometers. This being my first Kodak Zi6 HD test movie (in the dark and inside) it does not give a good impression how good this camcorder actually is... especially while I edited this movie in iMovie08 with its limited features. Cannot wait for iMovie09.

Francesco Cavalli wrote this opera in 1662 so quite a while ago, but is still fun to see and nice to hear. The Dutch Opera in direction of David Alden made it into a very enjoyable hour or two - then we realized the opera would last for an other two hours - which is way to much, so we called it a day ;-)

1) Fight Club
2) Street Fighter
3) Rocky
4) Matrix
5) Enter The Dragon
6) Troy
7) American History X
8) Casino Royal
9) Gladiator
10) Attack of the Clones (Yoda ;-) )