They say you only practice hard enough if you are sweating. Well, sweating we are. Strangely enough, I sweat more nowadays than Tom does. In the Netherlands, I hardly sweated at all. It’s not just the temperatures though, but also the fact that we change our practice a lot. At times we walk longer distances … Read more
This a hive, not a beehive, but a hive for wasps. In Spain, wasps are called avispas. The wasps in the picture look different from those that visit the pool. The ‘pool wasps’ are bigger and have tails. Bees and wasps have important functions in nature. They eat other less useful animals and inseminate flowers … Read more
This is gazpacho, a typical Spanish cold soup. It’s from Don Simon, a well-known brand in Spain. This gazpacho is ecological, most products of Don Simon are not. So we are lucky. This gazpacho is one of the few we really like. Of course, because it’s ecológico. But also because it contains only a little … Read more
Probably as most people do, we mostly shower in the morning. Unless we have an appointment in the early evening as we had today. Then we rather shower right before the appointment to wash off the sweat of the day. And we keep forgetting that after 10, 11 a.m. there hardly is any pressure on … Read more
‘Shopping’. I love it. According to my friends, I am the only male person who loves ‘shopping’. That is, I love looking around in shops. I don’t buy anything. Not because I don’t want to, but because I shouldn’t know what to buy. Not that I have everything, but because I don’t want everything. Okay, … Read more
We sometimes complain it’s too busy at the moment (as if we would be the only ones entitled to the beach and the sea), but because of the summer, it’s also very lively. There are all kinds of activities. Today we encountered a big group of women mimicking a handsome man in the front. They … Read more
One way or the other, in Spain special care is taken of ‘people with disabilities’, or as it’s called in our world: ‘people with restrictions’. In the picture, you can see how this works. In a shallow part of the beach, shade is created with a toldo (a canopy). Under the toldo a couple of … Read more
Last March we went to the Madrid Zoo with the whole family and saw beautiful mandrills there. They were behind glass and pacing up and down, so I could hardly make a good enough picture of them. I decided to draw one as soon as I had my drawing stuff out of the storage. Well, … Read more
Today I have set a personal record! Touching my knees with my nose during the Seated Forward Bend, also known as Paschimottanasana. Last year I had an injury due to extensive walking (10.000 steps daily) on the wrong shoes. It took me a couple of months of physiotherapy and exercise to recover. Instead of quitting … Read more
“Why is it so busy? Are they waiting for a boat?” “No, they’re just gossiping. I guess they didn’t feel like standing on the beach or in the water as most people do”. “Hang on, I’ll take a picture”. And at that exact moment, we discovered why it was so busy: they were watching the … Read more