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  • The last ride of 2019

    With the weather as good as it was, I decided to get in one last ride this year. Nothing fancy just 40+ km on tarmac.

    A road bike handlebar with two winter gloves stuck to the ends and a road in the backgrpund

    Strava map of a 45 km ride

    It was a good ride and I kept grinning riding along a road between the villages of Franzenheim and Kernscheid — at least on the inside because on the outside my expression was a bit pained from going uphill. I discovered this piece of asphalt a few weeks after my trip to Scotland in 2018 and it reminded me so much of the singletrack roads over there (the only thing missing are the passing places).

    a wide field, the slightly cloudy sky in the background and a fallen over tree on the left

    I was really lucky because while temperatures for most of the ride were below 0°C, it was dry and I only encountered a few spots of frozen ground.

    picture shot diagonally through a bridge in the winter sunlight

    And I have to say: I might not enjoy road cycling a lot but one distinct advantage to gravel cycling is not having to clean my bike after the ride.

    → 23:16, 31 Dec 2019

  • Daumen hoch! Es ist nicht mal zehn und es wird schon geböllert. Die kleinere meiner Hündinnen bekommt jetzt schon Panik. Habe ich schonmal gesagt, dass ich Menschen nicht mag?

    → 09:53, 31 Dec 2019

  • Finished two TV series in this neither-here-nor-there time between the years: Lost in Space, season two and the first season of The Witcher. Both of them very satisfying stories.

    → 19:42, 30 Dec 2019

  • Impressions from a morning walk in the fog

    We met up with a friend and her dog on a hilltop fairly close to our place for a morning walk. The weather promised some nice photo opportunities, so I took my X-T3 and the 35/2 lens with me. Not only was it a nice walk with great company, the pictures I got out of it didn’t disappoint, either.

    Winter field with frost covering the green and the sun behind fog, a tree in stark contrast

    A large dog running towards a flock of crows taking flight lit from behind by the sun behind thick fog

    A full body portrait of a small red-haired dog sitting in a field surrounded by soft fog and lit by a weak sun

    Backlight portrait of a large dog in front of a foggy field

    A downward sloping field swallowed by fog in the distance, a high-voltage transmission line on the left

    I couldn’t decide between using the Astia, ProNeg High, and Classic Chrome film simulations in a lot of places, so the pictures above are a mix of them.

    → 13:36, 28 Dec 2019

  • Only just got around to reading this obituary for René Auberjonois by Nana Visitor and it made me sad all over again. I really liked this man’s acting and Odo is one of the best characters in Star Trek.

    → 16:12, 24 Dec 2019

  • Mövenpick, Langnese, Landliebe und der ganze Rest sollten sich für die Eismogelpackungen echt schämen (gleiche Packungsgröße, halber Inhalt + Luft, gleicher Preis wie zuvor). Dumm nur, dass richtig gutes Eis schwer zu bekommen ist.

    → 17:32, 23 Dec 2019

  • Mika, our small red-haired dog laying on my bed in a ray of sunshine

    This is from yesterday but Mika really knows how to Sunday.

    → 11:14, 23 Dec 2019

  • Liebe Bundeskanzlerin Frau Angela Merkel,
    ich denke es wird Zeit, dass Sie Herrn Andreas Scheuer Ihr vollstes Vertrauen aussprechen, damit die Mautaffäre baldmöglichst aufgeklärt werden kann.

    → 18:31, 20 Dec 2019

  • Keeping my fingers crossed that the weather tomorrow is going to be as good as the weather report suggests. I’m aching to go for a proper gravel ride again. Already have a route picked out.

    → 16:02, 16 Dec 2019

  • gravel bike leaning against a railing on the Mosel river overlooking the bridge in Mehring

    My first longer road ride in a while and I got caught in a heavy rain shower almost immediately. FML. I need to invest in some sort of easy to remove fenders for this bike. I’m happy that I finished the ride not feeling completely exhausted but the coffee stop was necessary.

    shot of a gravel bike leaning against a counter with a pastry and coffe on the counter

    Road ride on 12 December 2019

    → 11:47, 13 Dec 2019
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