Drielandenpunt

A week of holidays, at the Drielandenpunt in Vaals, NL. We joint Nanni, Enith and kids with the whole family, and spent a couple of days walking, playing, doing sauna, massage and bubblebath.
At the drielandenpunt Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands converge in one point. The event is celebrated by a very nice labyrinth, which rensembles the three edges and the three national symbols. It looks like a stupid labyrinth, but it took us the needed 45 minutes to be able to crack it!!! This place is as well the highest place in the Netherlands, with a ridiculous 323m!!!

Today we visited a zoo in Kerkrade. It has been relaxing and funny, we all loved it. On the way back the exaust of our car broke down. It will cause us a lot of troubles. I will have to rent a car tomorrow, in order to be able to drive to Brussel Airport; next week we go to Sicily, another week of holidays, lucky us.

Pictures of this holiday soon on flickr.

Jogging

Yesterday was the turn for my jogging session. 5 times 3 minutes of fast running, with 2 minutes walking interval. In total I have covered 3740, according to Google Earth. It has been heavy, those 3 minutes seem to last forever, and it takes quite some time before I was able to recover breath for the next session. Today my legs are aching a bit, but things are still ok.

I wonder whether I will be able to run during my holidays. The scheme will get heavier and heavier, and I am not allowed to skip anything....

Tomorrow I will un my 12 minutes of D1.

Jogging

I started jogging. It is not really my favourite sport, but it is very easy for me: it requires not too much time, and I can do it whenever it fits my agenda.
Starting has been difficult. I felt my legs were very heavy. Even before I could feel short of breath, my muscles were aching....After the 3rd time things were already better. I could run 20 minutes without problems, covering a bit less then 3 km. This is of course a grandma performance, but it's a start....

In order to do it properly, I got a training scheme in this site. They have a lot of training schemes, for every type of goal.Today I started with the first exercise: 4 times 4 minutes running with 2 minutes walking interval. It went great!!!

Percorso Bici

Here's the route we biked with Marco last weekend.

Weekend

Strange weekend. Friday I went out with some friends, and danced some Merengue (it has been a century ago last time). Saturday was as stressy as relaxing. Kyara got her swimming diploma, after that we went collecting some sample tiles for the kitchen. In the afternoon we visited Nanni and Enith. Ryan was celebrating his birthday.

We left in a rush, because Loes was expected at a party organised by her colleagues. So, I was let alone with the kids: it's s non stop activity taking care of them on your own, there's always something happening or something to do.

Diploma B

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Originally uploaded by Giuseppe

Kyara got her Swimming Diploma - B. It was a nice morning, in spite of the hangover from the day before. She was tensed, somehow children get very nervous about this.

Congratulations Kyara, you did it!!!

Biking

Marco visited me this weekend. We talked a lot, of new and old life, nature, music friends, love. But most of all we biked. Marco forgot his GPS, so I am not able to trace the route we biked with satellite precision. Let's say we wandered in the neibourhood of Eindhoven and we even reached Oirschot. On the way back we biked through a bush, and ended up sitting in a open space. Great.

In the evening we watched Jackass. Just stupid laughing at some stunts, some of which do not seem genuine to me, but some nice attitude to life.....I believe it is a man movie.