Cute squirrel in Madison Square Park, New York:
Puente de Isabel II
Puente de Isabel II, Seville, Spain
Luxembourg National Holiday 2014
People moving to watch the show:
The fireworks:
And finally, some merged pictures make the fireworks look more awesome than reality:
Landing time over Luxembourg City time lapse
All frames merges into a single picture:
A long evening in Kirchberg
Various exposures have been merged during astronomical twilight. The result seems like a 29 minutes exposure with a few pauses.
Fire
I can spend hours staring at a campfire…
Garden tap
Not a common Monday
It’s very pleasant to start a new week with a day off. The main reason was to study and to let the repairman in. Then a succession of events occurred:
- he called me in the early morning and let me know at what time he was going to arrive,
- I will be going to be on call from this evening on,
- according to the weather forecast, it was the last sunny day until god knows when,
- I couldn’t find any interactive way to study on the security frameworks, knowing that passive learning is useless.
Based on all the facts above, I invited some people for an evening BBQ, went out into the forest and rode my mountain bike, bought some groceries to cook a nice salad, let the repairman fix the dishwasher, started some laundry, went out again to another forest, mowed the lawn, went shopping for BBQ food and finally had my guests.
Tam showed up to fetch his car but unfortunately his battery was flat; since it’s a hybrid car it wasn’t possible to push it. Therefore he stayed with us for dinner until his car could be fixed, which took about 1 minute and costed 100 Euros. At least he could enjoy with us some fish-kebab, grilled mushrooms and other vegetables. It was nice to spend some time with some friends!
Ended the day doing 61 km of activities, including 48 km on my bike. Still 690 km to go this month and 6,428 km this year (7,042 km would be ideal if I can afford not to include non-bike sports as well). Too bad this week I won’t have as much free time than I had for cycling…
Of course my mind wasn’t in security frameworks while mountain biking, but rather organising some games on mountain bikes based on the snake game which could be played in groups in the city centre or in the forest.
So below are the maps of the two rides.
Indigo?
I didn’t even know the term Indigo adults before a couple of minutes ago, still don’t know what this is about, but I (more or less) match 23 of the 25 characteristics. Even more than that, I only disagree with one of them and one left me quite indifferent. Should I be worried?
Lunch ride to Diekirch
Today I went to the Meetup event called Lazy Sunday Bike Ride.
The meeting point was in Mersch at 10:15. I left home on time, but went slowly and did a detour via the city centre, and at 9:44 I saw the sign displaying 15 remaining kilometres, I had to boost and arrived there exactly at 10:15 😉 Of course, I could also have contacted the organiser as I knew the tour details, but that would have been no fun.
The group was great, it was great riding with 12 other people while talking a bit and listening to others – I have two ears and one mouth. One person got lost so I went back to fetch her and we finally found the group back after an hour, and we cycled to Diekirch and stopped for lunch in a Portuguese restaurant named Jardin du Portugal where the food was good so I recommend it.
In total, I cycled another 109 km today, it was called a “Lazy” 😉
I’ve done 412 km of outdoor activities this week, and I still need another 743 km this month to reach my goal, but since I’m going to be on duty next week I won’t be able to cycle as much as last week.
To finish the day, I’ve cleaned the BBQ; it’s like a new one 🙂