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.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
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.<\/p>\n\n
Around the corner from our house, filming has started on the third series of Keyzer & De Boer<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n 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.<\/p>\n\n Lenovo<\/a> are recalling the 9 cell batteries used in the T60 (amongst others). I typed my serial number into their checker<\/a> and discovered that I’ve got one of the dodgy ones, although they’re deliberately vague about what the nature of the “incidents” is.<\/p>\n\n Life is slow again and we’re feeling relaxed: the wonders of travel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading