renovation update

Our renovation is still going strong - the guest room will be painted and carpetted by the end of the week, and we got the first offer for replacement of the roof. Painful.

Now, a word of good advice: never couple a 50 cent screwdriver bit to a >1000 Watt drill. It works fine, just not very long.

Gallery site updated

I did update my gallery site again - with pictures from the Landbouwdag in Alden Biesen (an agricultural gathering of horses, tractors and people with wrinkels and funny clothes).

If any of you have an alternative to flickr, I'm happy to hear it. I'm even thinking of hosting my own site - although there is never enough time for such things...

Als ze me missen...

Long time no see - but as you know, "als ze me missen ben ik vissen". I went fishing in Goebelsmühle (next to Bourscheid, Luxemburg) on the river Sure, together with my cousin and his (most likely) future brother-in-law.

The odds were against us with murky water and very high levels and flow rate - nevertheless we never caught that much fish, let alone such large fish. Some lessons learned on the way though:

• catch rate is directly related to alcohol percentage. We found the native trout especially liked Chivas Regal, 12 years old
• never ever smell the inside of your waders, especially not when you are only wearing those waders
• never leave waders outside overnight - ticks like them. Trust me, I saw one up close in my waders
• do not eat beans whilst camping three in one tent
• Luxemburg pastry and bread roll quality excels
• triple fish hooks hurt. Almost as much as manually removing ticks
• sun-heated trout slime stinks - a lot
  

Now for the better part: some impressions...

car

Not a lot of news lately - I've been to busy driving my new car.
One must have a bad car first to appreciate good German engineering...