winny’s blog

Just around the corner of our building a new hotel started. Suite Hotel Pincoffs. It happend that I was shown around yesterday in that same hotel.

Awesome! Really.

I was there for a Friday afternoon drink, with neigbourfriends. It was the first night the bar was open. The rooms were not even officially in use. And because we were with a friend of a friend who was invited to stay the night for a trial we were shown around. All the rooms look different.  And jet the athmosphere is the same. Not cheap but worth every euro.

Isn’t that great, Bernice Notenboom, the first woman on skis at the South Pole. I worked with her in 2001 on some of her trips with Indian Americans in America. She has a travel agency, Mokitreks.

Now this. I remember her as a strong adventures woman, with a lot of perseverance.

Good for her! Read more about her adventure.

Just got ‘Digitenne‘ this afternoon. Did not have to pay anything and walked out of the shop with the complete box.

I must admit, it is exactley as promised. Within 10 minutes everything is working really fine. Perfectly sharp pictures and 29 TV stations. The antenna stands next to the TV so no ugly wires through the room. I really am quite enthousiastic about this whole thing.

They do have a usb version for the computer but that is only for PC. Not for the Mac. Succers! I would have preferred that because then I can easily watch TV anywhere.

For now I stick with the Digitenne I have. It’s a free trial for one month. And I already think I’m going to cancel the UPC cabel. Saves me about 10 euro every month.

The only disadvantage is that there is no BBC 1 and 2 on this Digitenne.

Last night I saw this utmost bizarre opera SnowWhite.

Can’t repeat any of it without looking awfuly crazy. One scene is when Snow White comes home from her psychiatrist. The 7 window-cleaners ask her: “How was the psychiatrist?” “He said I was a screaming bore”

Beautiful voices. Had a nice evening, and long too.

Went to a very nice exhibition today about animals in circuses. How they are tamed and grown.

This exposition started in september last year. Long before the discussion these days in parliament. But that did trigger me to go and see it. Impressive.