Marijn and I had the unique chance to bake our own bread at the famous Amsterdam bakery: Hartog. It was really fun to see how everything works and to make your own bread out of wheat and water.
The new iPhone 3.0 software is coming out this summer. It really is the next step forward (even includes copy & paste ;-) )
1. Go back to my training routine
2. Seeing all my friends again
3. Go back to work - really!
4. Follow my diet
5. Sleep in my own bed
6. Have my huge apple screen
7. Have roaming iPhone 3G services
8. Have all my other stuff besides me
9. Wearing something different then my motor bike outfit
10. Dream about the next motor trip (To Germany)
2. Seeing all my friends again
3. Go back to work - really!
4. Follow my diet
5. Sleep in my own bed
6. Have my huge apple screen
7. Have roaming iPhone 3G services
8. Have all my other stuff besides me
9. Wearing something different then my motor bike outfit
10. Dream about the next motor trip (To Germany)
Finally I came to reading this great novel about
the lives of the Meijer family between 1871 and 1945,
a wide but not unmanageable time-span. The family is
Jewish, the setting mainly Switzerland. In eBook format this book is about 1400 pages - but reading on my iLiad is really fast - so I am halfway already. It is a very gripping story - waiting to be a movie.
We stopped at Heidelberg for a good (German) meal and sleep before continuing our journey home. Heidelberg is a sweet little town with a huge castle on top of a hill overlooking the city.
Today's trip was the last of our WW I journey. But boy what a trip it turned out to be! We left Saint Die des Vosges in a little drizzle and knew from the weather forecast that riding any col to our last destination (Thann) was NOT a good idea - so we decided to take a detour. But every road out of the valley was blocked because of snow. We really had to ride 100 km or so to find an open road and at first it seemed OK and fun to drive - that is until a snow blizzard started and we a) couldn't see a thing because of our blocked visors, b) were almost blown of our bikes by the galls and c) couldn't ride the road because of the ice and snow. We had to wait for the snowplough to come through and after we followed it carefully continue our way. After hours we arrived in Thann and after a quick dip in the Jacuzzi and sauna started to feel human again. Thanks to our Rukka suits and Yamaha bikes we made it through. WE didn't see any other bikes on our way...
The weather isn't getting any better - but we managed somehow to keep it dry. We are now on our last part of the journey that brought us all the way from east Belgium to the coast and then back to East France again. All on the smallest roads you can find. The major battlefields are behind us. The Lorraine and the Alsace were old contested areas that were German since the 1870's and France wanted to have them back - so there was some fighting here as well. This area is getting more '' hilly" so riding the bikes is even more fun.
