Hike to Klosters

Woo Hoo,

I managed to get the pictures up :)

They are on the Dutch blog, also with English captions :)

Enjoy!!

Day in the lab

I'd like to apologize for the lack of entertainment in the following blog, I won't be upset if you don't read it :)

Nothing exciting happened today, but right now I am sitting at my desk waiting for my last run of PCR to finish, and I am a little bit bored.... Otherwise I wouldn't even bother to write a blog....

So, today I have been in the lan all day pipetting my PCR plates. Lot's of work that requires concentration.. .But I think I managed to do 4 plates without making mistakes :) Now the last one is in the machine, and it will be finished in about hald an hour. Tomorrow will be the exciting day of looking at the results :)

I haven't been here all evening, I went home just before dark bacause I don't have any lights on my new bike. I am currently using the new bike, because I lost a screw from the old one (that does have lights). On my way home I stopped at the bike shop and got a new screw, so from now on I can use that other bike again, and I don't have to be home before dark....

I tried to upload some pictures of hike I did a couple of weeks ago with Nora and Thomas, but the server is too slow at the moment, it is taking forever... So, those will have to wait :(

Not sure if I will write over the weekend, because I will be visiting my parents over the weekend :) I'll try and have something to talk about next time....

Ciao!

Elections and Transviamala

Hello boys and girls,

Next month we have elections in the Netherlands, and eventhough I live in Switzerland right now, I am allowed to vote. I signed up for internet voting, and recieved all the codes needed to vote from the comfert of my own home... The only problem is that I have no idea who to vote for.... Too many parties, not enough that think the way I think.... Basically, I have no clue what I will do next month, but lucky for me, I can get some Dutch television, and hopefully that will help me sort out my problem!

Last weekend my mom was here to walk the transviamala walk and run, and since she participated, I signed up myself as well :) Pfew, that was hard. I had already done it two times before and last year was really horrible. This year it went better, but still I was exhausted after the 19 km mostly uphill... Also I have a HUGE blister on my foot, so no running for a while (I hope it will recover quickly). My mum did the 15.8 km Nordic Walk which was almost a run... It went very fast, but she finished in one piece :) We were very happy that Siebren was there to drive us back to Davos. He was so sweet to drive us to the start and pick us op at the finish... Lucky for him the weather was beautiful, and there was plenty to see :)

This is a picture of the start, I am at the far left (black top, white hat)

Here is an impression of the steep parts of the run... Check out the website for more images...

Maybe I'll do it again next year, but if I want to beat my best time so far, I really need to train a bit more....

Bye for now :)

Pics of Davos and surrounding :)

Hi all,

I have posted some pics of Davos and surrounding on my Dutch blog (title: Davos en omstreken afgelopen zomer). Have a look!!!

The images show:

• runners competing in the K78 marathon run (www.swissalpine.ch). This is 78km inclusing 2 mountain passes. Last year I competed in the K42, horrible enough....
• A little river running through one of the side valleys of Davos named Sertig.
• A nice view from a mountainbike trail going up to a mountainrestaurant (Ischalp) in Jakobshorn ski area. You can see the lake of Davos
• Morteratsch Glacier, very big and dangerous glacier in the east of Graubünden (near St. Moritz)
• And another view over the lake of Davos from the panoramaweg, which runs from Höhenweg station to Parsennhütte (also mountain restaurant, but in Parsenn ski area).
• last picture is of the AO institute where I work... In the middle on nowhere :)

Enjoy!

First English BLOG

Hi all,

It is hard to stay in touch with everybody, so two days ago, I have decided to start a webblog to keep all my relatives and friends in the Netherlands posted on what I am doing here in Davos. Today, I have decided to start another block in English. I am not sure if I will keep both of them synchronized, so it may be a good idea to check out both. I'll put a link on this site to the Dutch BLOG.

Hope you're all doing well!!!