One minute you’re driving a 4×4, surrounded by palm trees and sand, your air-conditioning blasting away; the next you’re riding your bike into the wind, wearing a woolly hat and a thick coat. The wonders of travel.
In January, our little one was trekking out to the Sólheimajökull glacier in southern Iceland and playing in the snow. A couple of weeks ago, she was playing on the dunes of the desert in the Wahiba Sands. The wonders of travel.
I made a valiant start today on getting the photos from our trip on-line. All of them are now imported, so I just have to select, order, rotate and caption them. “Just”, he said nonchalantly; that’s actually a large part of the work.
I’ve also started to rip the huge pile of CDs I purchased during our trip. The new music, together with the new Persian carpet and the frankincense burner smouldering away on our mantelpiece, have definitely given our home a slight Arabian flavour.
Around the corner from our house, filming has started on the third series of Keyzer & De Boer.
The DVB frequencies of the national Dutch public TV stations must have moved, because we can now pick them up free-to-air on the DVB tuner in our car. Nice, crystal-clear television while you’re stuck waiting for the traffic lights to change. A number of regional stations are available, too, including TV Noord-Holland.
Lenovo are recalling the 9 cell batteries used in the T60 (amongst others). I typed my serial number into their checker and discovered that I’ve got one of the dodgy ones, although they’re deliberately vague about what the nature of the “incidents” is.
Life is slow again and we’re feeling relaxed: the wonders of travel.