As some of you know, I may need to go to the parental abode with very little notice. So here’s what I have with me almost all the time.
Before you ask, I have spare clothes at the parental abode.
[1] because I’m an academic, not necessarily to aid bug-out
[2] because a visiting lecturer once needed such an adaptor to connect his laptop to a Napier projector
Some of my reader might know that my mother has been in hospital. She was taken into Worcester Royal hospital on Friday 24 January due to severe abdominal pain, and had some procedures on Friday 31 January. These had to be delayed while various routine medications were still active. She was then transferred to the Alexandra hospital in Redditch. The Alex is the home of the specialist unit in Worcestershire that is best placed to handle my mother’s conditions.
I’ve been in Worcester since the afternoon of Monday 27 January. I’ve had to leave a lot of work in the very capable hands of colleagues at Napier, £eithChooses, Leith Central Community Council, Leith Harbour & Newhaven Community Council, New Town & Broughton Community Council and Community Councils Together on Trams. (I am doing some CC work remotely as I get snippets of time.) Huge thanks to all concerned! Continue reading
Elly has been in Bucharest since very early on Tuesday. I flew out to meet her yesterday (Friday). My flight was due to take off at 19:00 but took off after 19:30, after a sudden gate-change from 4 to 18, because the place was at gate 17. A 3 hour 30 minute flight landed me in Bucharest Otopeni airport around 1am Romanian time. Here’s what happened since… Continue reading
 view from our hotel |
 tugging |
 weird boat |
 bow of weird boat |
 There were whale paintings on the road, and many whale-flags. |
 ferry approaching |
We had decided to finished the holiday with a few days in Zaandam. We came here in late 2016: here’s our stories from then. So yesterday (Sunday 8 September) was taken up by a relatively long (42 miles) trip. No rain, little wind but much wiggling: https://cyclemeter.com/dd47ea6f33590baa/Cycle-20190908-1049-80348. I’d been keen to see the completely reclaimed countryside of Flevoland, and got it.
 street-names en route |
 Miles of straight, smooth tarmac made this a pretty smooth run. |
 crossing from Flevoland to Muiden (mainland) |
 Crossing from Flevoland to Muiden (mainland) |
Today has been a deliberately lazy day: breakfast, shopping, coffee, more shopping, more coffee, dozing, cinema, sleep Tomorrow we might be energetic!
Our hotel in Zaandam
Hello from a cafe outside the Batavia Museum! There is much on how they are rebuilding old sailing ships here. Not a surprise that this is a lively area. We are in a city, a city on land reclaimed from water. Cycling through wiggly suburbs is such a change to cycling through countryside! Continue reading
 setting off along the dike |
 streamlined recumbent |
 approaching Lelystad |
 approaching Lelystad |
 street-name |
 Enkhuizen marina |
 about de Taanhuis |
 inside de Taanhuis |
 about the smoke-houses |
 inside the smoke-houses |
 about a house from Merken |
 inside the house from Merken |
 about a corner-shop |
 inside the corner-shop |
 inside the corner-shop |
 random building |
 around the museum |
 about a house from Marken |
 inside the house from Marken |
 about a fish-auction |
 inside the fish-auction |
 about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 more about tanning |
 about the Aeronef |
 the Aeronef |
 about a dike-house |
 the dike-house |
 about chalk-ovens |
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 museum layout-information |
 museum layout-information |
 about the Zuiderzee museum |
 more about the Zuiderzee museum |
 looking back at the museum |
 I was intrigued by the ride of this thatched hut. |
 another view of the thatched hut |
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 about the bronze-age hut |
 bronze-age hut |
 bronze-age hut |
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 about the brush-maker |
 outside the brush-maker’s |
 inside the brush-maker’s |
 Elly is not an exhibit! |
 Shy sheep |
 flounder |
 boiler-room(?) |
 about the boiler-room |
 steam engine |
 boiler and steam-engine |
 about the steam-laundry |
 laundry |
 about van der Kamp laundry |
 more about the van der Kamp laundry |
 about Zuiderzee tastes |
 What to use for polishing your stove! |
 forge |
 about the high street |
 painted radiator |
 about the pharmacy |
 Enkhuizen marina |
 sailing |
 about Paulus Potter |
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 Paulus Potter sketching a goat… |
 … and his model. |
 Note the weathervane |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 view of Enkhuizen |
 Bookbinder Street |
Today was a shopping and sightseeing day. Cyclemeter map for now, photos below.
 Sheep in Den Burg market |
 The White Angel – sells all manner of Texel wool |
 how to use a sheep |
 A nation of cyclists! |
 Hope to auction fish |
 Elly gaming |
 outside exhibits |
 Jutter boat, previously used by Texel jutter Sil Boon. (A jutter is a beachcomber or scavenger.) |
 about the next few photos |
 lifeboat capsule |
 inside the lifeboat capsule |
 lifeboat capsule pilot’s station |
 inside the lifeboat capsule |
 about the lifeboat capsule’s air supply |
 ship interior |
 mammoths! |
 mammoth tusk |
 wine, women and song? |
 rubber gloves |
 penicillin |
 whiskey galore |
 Aye-aye captain! |
 snail-flour! |
 de Koog beach |
 de Koog beach |
 de Koog beach |
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