Beautiful sky and nasty storm

Just over a week ago at 4 July the air was beautiful in the evening around 22pm.

4 July 22pm; the sky viewed from my balcony in Wageningen

Today, a major storm passed the country with thunder and lightning, wind gusts and heavy rain. Wageningen wasn’t hit so badly, but for an hour the sky was dark, [...]

The Netherlands

The Netherlands = occasionally high temperatures (>30 degrees C) for a couple of days = thunderstorms after these few days = major problems

For the last days temperatures were high throughout the country and as usual the expected thunderstorms arrived on Saturday evening. After a beautiful day watching baseball at the Haarlemse Honkbalweek 2010 I spend the [...]

Week in the Netherlands

Monday 19 October 13.45hrs. My bags are packed and it is time to leave Ireland for a week. In the rain I walked for about 15 minutes to the bus stop with backpack, rucksack and laptop bag. The bus dropped me off right in front of Cork Airport at 14.45hrs. About 10 minutes later I was [...]