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De wondere wereld van het duiken
... DKV heb ik alles in 1 weekend gedaan. Als beginnende duiker vind je lijf dat niet echt fijn, maar ik heb het overleefd.
De oefeningen die je moet doen voor je examen zijn:
- voorbereiden, aantrekken en afstellen uitrusting
- veiligheidsinspectie voor de duik
- kramp verwijderen
- slepen van een vermoeide duiker
- duikset afdoen en weer aandoen aan de oppervlakte
- gewichten afdoen en weer aandoen
- snorkel/ademautomaat ...
Row, row, row the boat gently down the stream!
19th June 2012
A beautiful sunny morning as so we are going to play again. We booked the bridge for 9.45 bridge lift to get out of the marina. Just by the bridge is a statue of a man carrying a donkey. (see picture) Any ideas as to why? CAPTION FOR THE PICTURE (keep it clean!) We had a lovely cruise through some beautiful places Waddinxveen, Boskoop and Budegraven and we caught up ...
Delft Pottery and the House of Orange.....
... are massive and are driven by six hydraulic motors (only four are required at one time) which are fitted with gears and attached to a large concrete structure in front of the gates. The gears on the motors mesh with gears on the top of the gates. Large tubular metal beams attach the gates to a central “hinge” point which is a ball & socket structure ten metres in diameter. One fact that I found very surprising is that operation of these gates ...
The Furnace of Delft
... Delft. Today, someone actually lives inside it, and it also is an art gallery.
Delft is a charming little town just halfway between the major cities of Den Haag and Rotterdam. As it promised, it’s a classically Dutch town with perfect canals and a lot of bicycles. As with all of the places I’ve visited in the Netherlands, I will have to come back in the summer and see it when it isn’t completely buried in ...
We finally made it!
... People of all ages ride bikes to get wherever it is they are going. We nearly got run over by cyclists a few times because invariably we looked the wrong way!
We’ll be heading into Rotterdam tomorrow to see the prologue of Le Tour de France. Can’t wait.
In the meantime we’ll start to work on the sleep deprivation, the elimination of my kankles and the jet lag. Nightie ...