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That was some adventure!
2 years agoYou can also see my white knuckles high in the bell tower of the Fauenkirche, Day 85.
2 years agoSeems like the only photos of Dad are when we have mechanical problems with the bikes or by accident. He never got much camera time on family trips either.
2 years agoFun that you're in this picture too!
2 years agoFor the English speaking market!
2 years agoOne of their shops just opened in a local shopping centre in suburban Melbourne!
2 years agoYeah, that's how many invasives have been spread.
2 years agoBecause I am a jam guy and if there aren’t any jams what am I to spread on a croissant. So that breakfast would be rated less than 10 from my point of view despite all else. A deduction would also applicable if the jams are in those little plastic packages.
As far as the number of devices we last carried 4. Two iphones and 2 ipads. We may go down to one ipad next trip. No garmin type devices as our phones provide our navigation needs. Oh and one camera which we may be drop and just rely on phone camera next trip.
Maybe they had a sale in the garden section of whatever serves as Home Depot here, 'cause they are just everywhere. Kind of like the Jasmine was at Grado.
2 years agoAh yes, but you ducked the tricky question: Can a breakfast with zero jams still be a 10 jammer?
In the old, camping days, I used to beg for one of those little chain saw like chains with two handles, for cutting firewood. Now at home I do have a rather brutal E-GO battery saw. But given the crying we have both been doing over carrying a 13" laptop, the 14" chainsaw is probably not on.
I was watching Rick Steves give some tips on Youtube last night. He recommends minimizing gear. The example he gave - yes you might need that snorkel and fins in Greece, but do you want to carry them when crossing the Alps? That's actually an easy one. Tougher is stuff like "how many chargers/cables do we need for our nine electronic devices", and the almost biblical one: Why do we need 9 devices?
There are different nuances and policy conclusions possible. I summarized the situation for them as follows:
1. What I took to be Suzanne/Janos: Weapons are evil, we need to stay away from them and not distribute them around, pretty much no matter what.
2. Jana and Thomas: Russia's war is dirty, but U.S. also did Iraq, Afghanistan, Balkans, Vietnam, etc. etc. U.S. is using Ukraine for a proxy war. Ukraine is in the wrong with respect to its Russian speaking/ethnicity people and regions. NATO wrongly expanded after 1991. US/EU anyway can not succeed against Russia if ordinary Russian believe they are in the right, which they do.
3. Majority of North Americans: Russia brutally attacked a country freely trying to choose its own destiny. Putin seeks to re-establish Soviet Union, against the will of countries he will subjugate. If not stopped now, he will continue. Heavy weapons to Ukraine are the only way to face down such naked aggression and war crimes.
Yes, that can also be a problem when trying to capture something like clothing styles, in a store window. And there are the devilish bakeries that put their tortes behind glass!
2 years agoInterestingly, Ellen Lee reports that she does not remember the stairs. She must have stuck to the road. On road or gravel track into the hills are not the kinds of alternatives we like to see.
2 years agoLooking closely, there's also a Grampies cycling vest reflection...
2 years ago
Glad it was me who watches the bikes. Steep stairs and dicey knees are not a good combo.
2 years ago