March 1 spring

I'm more or less preparing myself for the holidays in May/June.
Riding from my hometown in the Netherlands to the Mont Ventoux in the south of France.
It's about 1,300 kilometer. At this moment I rode as much as last year but the total distance was somewhat larger. And as a logic consequence I feel stronger than last year. Yesterday I made some kilometers on my race bike and I didn't do my utmost to keep the average above the 30 k/hr.

It might be the weather that I could do this. We didn't have wintry weather since the second decade of December 07. No, temperatures are high and from a bright sunny on Monday we went to a rainy Tuesday, a sunny Wednesday to a wind-still Thursday. But tomorrow it'll rain again and Saturday we'll have storm.
I can't say however we had a stormy winter, far from that. And beside that Saturday is March 1st. The meteorological winter 2007/2008 is over. The book can be closed. Spring can start.

An awful lot of wheelchairs

and this was half of it... All these wheelchairs are shipped to countries where the care for disabled people is poor. Turkey, Morocco, Sri Lanka and Hungary will benefit from this gift.

My criticism is that there is no plan what to do with the wheelchairs when they're out of work. In the Netherlands each part will be recycled so there will be no environmental pollution.
The gift can be criticised because we save the recycle cost. When the wheelchair reached the end of it's life cycle the different countries have those recycle costs.

World Press

It wasn't a good year according to the organiser of the annual press photography contest. Judge yourself....

Watch these pictures.