What a view!

It took 16 hours by car but we are in beautiful Italy. First pizza's are eaten and sights seen but I feel home again. Just a short note,more to come!

Italy,here we come!

Finally the day is here.today we will go to Italy. Cannot wait!Still got a lot to do so time will fly!

Italy is breathing down my neck

And I got a whole lot of stuff to do! The weather here is fantastic so I cannot get my myself to start packing.. what to do??

Minichamps F1 cars Brawn and McLaren

These minichamps cars of McLaren and Brawn (2009 & 2010) are a sight for the eye. It is definately not to play with for kids but a grown man will be playing with them for hours.

Formula 1 my painting

This painting (1x1meters) I made a few years back and with the season in full throttle I thought I would share it!  Watching F1 gives me the ultimate sunday feeling. Guess it is because my father used to watch it on sunday.

When I am in Italy the GP of Monaco is held that weekend. Just the thought of it being an hour away makes me excited about it. It is just sad that the tickets are expensive and well Monaco is a difficult city to get into on a normal day let alone during GP. I probably will go there a few days later to see the fresh painted striping and smell the rubber.

Facebook - Timeline acting weird..

Maybe more people have noticed? Just now I found out that the timeline on Facebook is all scr*** up. There are numbers and everything is placed under one and another. Not two columns just one page. Photo's are too big... Hmmm, looks really weird, hoping they will fix this issue soon!

Strawberry..sweetie

I just love strawberries and lucky for me that is one of the things that we can grow in our climate. These strawberries are still in their basket waiting for a better day. Waiting for the continuous showers to stop and for the sun to show her bright yellow face.
It is about time she does show up since there are numerous of strawberries waiting for a larger spot!

So showers stop and sun please come!

Rabotelebankieren

Rabobank telebankieren is down.het is onmogelijk om in te loggen. De site is wel bereikbaar maar het onderdeel telebankieren niet. Het duurt nu al bijna een uur. Hopen dat het snel opgelost is.

This is about a dutch banking site which is unavailable.

Coffee,my sweet little habit

If there is one thing I cannot do without it is coffee. In Holland it is available anywhere and I am glad for that. Just plain coffee,sometimes espresso or capuccino but usually they only have plain coffee which is fine.

The first time in Italy a whole new world opened up.. latte machiato.. Now that is a sweet good coffee! Can't wait!

Holiday approaching fast

My holiday is approaching fast and well I have this issue.. When it is just weeks away I just cannot stop checking the weather. I love the sun and the reason why I am going to the south of europe is for the weather. Now last days I checked the weather in the flower riviera and well, it is not that good! Last year I went to Garda lake (also Italy) in May and it was 3o degrees celcius, this was extreme for the time of year but it was warm. Now it should be about 25 degrees in italy around the end of May but it is not looking like it is going to be.

I really hope it will turn around, still have some time. Well if it is not that warm, count on some blogs..

Wondering, are there people that do not like warm weather?

day of freedom - clothes for free

today we celebrated the freeing of our country from the Germans in the second world war. This usually means some ceremonies and a whole lot of party. The most remarkable bit was that the german minister was present at the ceremony with the queen. This has not ever occured before!

Today I also received my shipment of clothes! I had won a contest (see earlier post) and today I received a part of the clothes I ordered. I must say clothes for free just seem to be fitting great!





Short message, got to sleep, keeping you posted...

Bada, is it really going anywhere?

Two years ago I got a new phone, a Samsung Wave. It was state of the art at the time. It came with this new software "Bada". Now two years later, I cannot connect with friends on whats app, my facebook app does not work properly and so on. In the two years there were numerous of apps designed and brought onto the market. Free and paid. Still there is no "Whatsapp" for Bada. Is this a way to force users to change to android phones? In my opinion it might be. Still, considering this Bada was a great risk at the time and well I really regret taking it. In two years android phones developed with the market, while my bada just stayed there, it developed but slowly.

I think there might be a future but it will be a great war to compete with Android.

Today I got my android and a world opened up. I finally came out of my cave and saw what this "Whatsapp"was all about, QR codes?!

I was pleased with Bada but all things considered, I would never ever get a phone with a new kind of software, it is just a large risk! I do think it is brave of the developers to keep fighting and try to make it work, I wish they will succeed!

BADA      vs     Android