Day 72 July 1 2013 Taking thing for granted- About Water and a Beetle. Rob has done a lot of work on my bike and today was my turn return the favor. Rob likes Volkswagens and Porsches. In his garage he has a project Porsche and a VW beetle which had its engine removed and stripped down. The question was asked if I was able to build it up again. Well I loved to do that as I had done many of them… but that was back in the late 70s, did I still have what it...

Day 71 30 June 2013 How low can you go? I received several request to keep the blog going as a general blog for everyone to read, it means that many people are actually reading my stuff which is nice to know. Now as for the litle- this has nothing to do with how I feel. Actually I feel not to bad at all, the weather has cleared , it was even a warm day today. When you look at the map on this page you can see that I am in a place called Lelystad. The large bl...

Day 70 29 June 2013 LAST DAY, Somewhere in Germany speeding along at 120km/h Day 70, a nice round figure that is all I can think of at this point in time. I am in a train racing towards the Dutch border somewhere past a place called Bielefeld where the train stopped for a few minutes. I have a compartment all to myself but it is not cozy. All plastic, in off-white colour and a small blue basin. This morning I was thinking, reminiscing would be a better word I ...

Day 69 28 June 2013 Warsaw In years gone by, if anyone would have asked me which country or people suffered the most during world war two my answer would have been Poland. I knew this from the many many documentaries I saw about the second world war during the time when I grew up. During the war, Warsaw saw a large section blocked off and turned into a Jewish ghetto. This was the largest ghetto in Nazi occupied Europe with around 400.000 Jews being put in a ar...

Day 68 27 June 2013 Warsaw Visiting a city mostly results in looking at nice places and looking at architecture. Another thing what comes up again and again is that you are confronted with a city's past at that is usually the various war times. So today after visiting the old town I went to a war time prison used by the Gestapo. As I would like to keep the blog in a positive frame I will not report on what I learned or saw and won’t upload any pictures o...