Me, myself and I · And nothing else

Holiday 2

09 Sep 2014

Second post about our holiday, as usual way too late…

On the second day we took the ferry to Dover. We’d never been on a ferry, so it was really exciting. We hadn’t anticipated the long wait getting on and off the ferry. Well, we knew we had to be there an hour before departure, but getting off the ferry also took more then half an hour. All in all it was a pleasant adventure, however.

Leaving Dunkirk

After we disembarked we went straight to Dover Castle, were we picked up our English Heritage card and visited the castle. On the parking lot we found a nice Volkswagen.

The Dover Castle site is amazing. We walked for several hours on its grounds.

There even is a pharos built by the Romans, almost 2000 years old.

From the tower of the castle I took this panorama.

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Holiday

24 Aug 2014

Summer is nearly over, and so is my work holiday. Tomorrow I start my day job again after three weeks off. The last two weeks we stayed at home, going on some day trips every now and then, but we went to walk our dog Coco almost every day, getting her in new situations as much as possible. We are very proud of her, seeing her grow as much as she has in the last 5 months. I’ll do a post on her soon.

In my first week off, my wife, my youngest daughter and I went on a short trip to England. We took the ferry from Dunkirk to Dover, stayed in a hotel in Ashford for a couple of nights and took the ferry again to go back to Dunkerque.

Kent, England, is really nice. We used the so called Overseas Visitors Pass to visit a number of English Heritage sites. When you visit just two sites you already have payed for the Pass, so I really recommend it.

Of course I took some pictures, and I want to show them to you. I’ll split the pictures into a number of posts as to not overwhelm you with a lot of pictures. I’ll start with Dunkirk, France, which is a coastal city in the Street of Dover.

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Status update

25 May 2014

Hi there, it’s been a long time since I wrote anything on this site. I’m still not giving up on it, despite the fact that in the past there were shorter and longer hiatuses. I thought I had found a way to keep it interesting (for myself!) with my 365 days photography project, but unfortunately it wasn’t so…

So, what’s happened in the last couple of months:

My 365 photography project has come to an inglorious end.
We had to say goodbye to Lola, our dog, after a life of ups and downs, at the end of January.
We got a new dog, Coco (photos coming soon).
I’ve been trying my hand on some programming (Python, checkout Codecademy), commandline tools (sed, bash), Drupal server management.
I’ve been trying to incorporate Multi Markdown in more and more of what I do (taking meeting notes, keeping a daily “journal”: checkout doing by Brett Terpstra).