Bordeaux

I am in Davos for only three days in between trips. It is a bit stressy because I have just been in Bordeaux for a long weekend, and the day after tomorrow I will leave for Hong Kong (via NL). I have finished my poster today, and it will be printed tomorrow. The harder part is getting paperwork signed and sent off before I leave. And of course I have to do laundry, cleaning and I have to pack. But I do want to show some pics of Bordeaux.

Wednesday I left for Zug because I had to be early at Basel airport Thursday morning. From Davos it would have been a bit tight, and of course I wanted to see Siebren before leaving.

At the airport all went quickly and smoothly. The plane was very small (37 seats). I had never flown with such a small plane before. It was q good flight because gettin on and off the plane is super quick, like taking a bus :) In Bordeaux al went quickly and I was out 10 minutes after landing.

The weather was great, so after a cup of tea with my mom and grandma we had to test the swimming pool!! The water had warmed up enough for it to be enjoyable. In the evening we had a family BBQ!

Friday we went sightseeing in Bordeaux with Marcela. First we drove throught the city by car and later we went by foot. We had lunch at a very nice square where Fabi fed the pigeons.

Saturday it rained a little, but we did go to the bakery in town. Later in the day it got much worse. My mom and grandma left on saturday and I and Marcela went shopping in a big mall where it was warm and dry. Later we met up with Rogier, the kids and papi for dinner.

Sunday Rogier took me for a drive along the coast. We went to the pyla, the highest dune of Europe. The weather wasn't very nicem it rained and was very windy! We almost got blown off, but we managed to take some nice pictures. After that we went to Arcachon and drove a bit further down the coast. It was a bit abandoned because of the weather, even most surfers stayed out of the water. That was a pity, but I can imagine that with nice weather it is lot's of fun there!

On Monday we went for a tour along all the chateaus. Some of them are really incredible. We visited one of them and got a short tour and explanation about the wine making. In the evening we went to the supermarket because I wanted to buy some French goodies....

Tuesday it was time to go home....

Nice weekend!

Last weekend was a long weekend in most of Europe and also here in Davos. But Siebren had to work on Friday, so on Wednesday night I drove to Zug. The drive a quite a bit more relaxing than last week, and I arrived around 8 pm. We spent the evening lazily watching a movie. On Thursday we were invited to Phillip, Nathalie and Lorena to have some Z'vieri (snacks around 4 pm). We spent most of the afternoon there, it was very nice, and Lorena is very cute :)

Firday I slept in a bit, because I was very tired from the work of the past couple of weeks. After breakfast I went for a nice bike ride around the lake (again) and in the afternoon I went to town to buy a little book on Hong Kong, and a cycling map of the Kanton of Zug! So next time I will go somewhere else :) After that I went home to Davos, because Siebren had a Men's night out in Zürich!!

Saturday, Siebren came to davos, and we made lasagne from scratch with my pastamachine!!! It was delicious :) On Sunday we went for a nice walk into the Dischma valley. It was really beautifull there with all the different flowers (look at pics)! At night we had a BBQ with real (free) Charcoal on my balcony!!

Spring :)

Even though we still ahd some snow this week, Davos looks like spring :) Flowers everywhere :) I have put some pics of the flowers of this week on the Dutch Blog. The valley is turning yellow:) In a couple of weeks all will be white again :)

Pasta!!!

I finally had the time to make pasta :) It is cooking at the moment, and I will eat it in a minute :) Let's hope it tastes well....

PS. It is snowing in Davos at the moment...

Danger!!

Ik ben afgeleden vrijdag weer naar Zug gereden, en was later weggegaan dan gepland. Mijn werk ging wat langzamer, en inpakken ging ook niet soepel....

Last Friday I drove down to Zug again, but left a bit later than planned. Work was slow and packing was even worse...

But, ok, when I finally drove off, it was raining and dark. At first I had someone in front of me who didn't know how to drive in the mountains, he was hitting the breaks constantly!!!! OK, to tourists the riads can be a bit scary and surpricing, but that doens't mean you have to slam the breaks in the middle of the straight. At first I thought he was about to hit a deer or something, that's how stronlgly he was breaking... But after a couple of straights I figured out he couldn't drive. He was driving me nuts, I didn't even dare look into my mirrors afraid i'd drive into him. I really tried to keep distance, but it just didn't work.

In the end I decided to pull over and let sime cars get in between us, the breaklights were getting on my nerves... But then I ended up behind someone who was driving with the foglight on, also nice :(

But the worst was yet to come.... At the flat bit just before the highway a car got on the road in frot of be with broken tail lights.... This one scared me, because I couldn't see him well, and wasn't sure if the breaklights would work, I did see the headlights were working, so thought that it could have been a problem with the whole back. But the break lights did work.... When we got to the highway I wanted to pass him, so I wouldn't run into him, but he was going too fast... So, instead I slowed down a bit more to create distance. But still it isn't nice to know that there is a car in front of you you can't see well in the darl and rain. Also other cars passed me, and their drivers didn't know this car was out there... So, very scary.... Luckily I did see the car leave the highway after a while, finally I couod relax a bit and drive normally!!!

Not a pleasant drive....

Wedding

Last week Siebren and I were invited to the real wedding of Petra and Markus (the official wedding was at April 20th). It was very nice but very wet and a bit cold, so the weather didn't cooperate :(

I think that the wedding pictures will turn out very beautiful because of the light and the white embrellas... :)

The wedding ceremony was planned to be outside, but because of the rain it was moved to this very pretty and cute attick. Even though the ceremony was in Swiss German, I understood quite a bit :)

The reception was in a big stable with cows (see picture). I have to say, it has some charm :) The kids loved feeding the cows :)

The dinner and the party were on top of the Rigi (mountain between Lucerne and Zug). Dinner was very good, and the party was fun with Karaoke :) We stayed at the hotel on top of the Rigi. The next day the weather was better and we did get the nice view from the train on the way down :)

BBQ

Last weekend Siebren and I went shopping for balcony furnature. We spent the whole day driving back and forth between furnature stores. But, in the end we succeeded, also thanks to Meindert who lent us his car. We found a BBQ, a table and chairs :)

On Sunday I went for a nice bik eride around the lake... I took some pics :)

Miles & More :)

Yeahhhhh!!!!

Miles & More gave me a credit card!!!!

Just wanted to let you know.... After all my bank rage, I finally got it :)

Halt, Velo Kontrolle!

Yep, only in Davos!!!

This week I was stopped by two police agents when I was biking to work... Vello Kontrolle (Bike check). They wanted to know if I had light, brakes and the most important, my velo vignette!!! All was ok, and then they asked me how much my bike weighs. Well, I have no clue, so they made me lift it and make a guess. Ehhh, 10 kg?? Then, all was ok, because if my bike would have been 12 kg I would have needed a bell on my bike :)

I'm learning more Swiss rules every day :)