Brands kiln

Today we put the thyristor control panel on the kiln platform. Was not very easy. Downstairs you see Arek directing his people during the lift-maneuver.

Pila has some nice buildings

Pila has some very nice buildings.

Here's the museum.









And one of the churches (there are more than 1)

Pila

The town of Pila is not too bad, many restaurants, quality is average-good. Hotel is also ok, including the breakfast buffet in the morning. The people in the factory are skilled and helpful.
Here is a view outside the hotel, far away you see the church that wakes me every morning at 600hrs with it's loud bell.

What about this one: neo classical! Awesome!

Trip to Pila Poland

The strange thing about Pila is that it is "Polish" but with some very thin German sauce. It is not pure Polish as our factory in Skierniewice.
This is the Avro plane that flew me from Brussels to Munich, from there with a Bombardier turboprop to Poznan. What was really nice were the alps when the plane left from Munich airport. You could see them very well.

Gearing up for my trip to Poland next week

Judging from the picture of the rooms on their website I'm staying in a "real" Polish hotel........

My LCR meters are being calibrated again!

Today I visited a company in Belgium that has high expertise with calibrating HP LCR meters.....There's much more to it than just connect a few capacitors and verify the values.........

The One rehearsing "Higher Ground" for the 1st time

Control panels ready for Poland

Today the controlpanels for the kiln in Poland will be transported from Eindhoven to Poland.

Many things to arrange for the wedding.........

Last weekends were very busy for us. Last weekend we visited the preacher that is going to marry us. And this weekend we visited Marions former dancing teacher, she's going to play the music on our wedding party. So busybusy. I applied last week for my birth certificate in Eindhoven where I was born, but got the one of my nephew by mistake. On friday I finally got the good one in my mail!

75th year anniversary of our dancing school

Here we are at the 75th year anniversary of our dancing school. I'm feeling a little bit better, but now I think I gave the virus I had this week to Marion. We didn't dance much this evening, but there was a lot to see. Like the couple in the youtube clip below, Euvgenia Parakhina and her partner Peter Bosveld, multiple dutch champion......and 7th on the world championship. It was very crowded, but sometimes I could catch a glimp of them with my camera........

Sick sick sick sick

I think I caught some strange Chinese virus....I'm sick at home........

New Year concert from the brassband

Here we are at the, better late than never, newyears concert of our brassband. Was very nice, especially because there were tryouts of many new musical pieces.

Steve Vai guitar Lesson by Kristofer

Rocket Scooter goes Airborne!

Snow in Eindhoven!

Today we had a little bit of snow in Eindhoven

Rehearsal in Tilburg

Here we are rehearsing with the band. It is very dark in the room, sorry about that.








Eric at his drums........









During Anouks' "Loving Whiskey" we can have a break, it's only Patrick on guitar and Annemiek singing.

Glaasje op......laat je rijden.............!

Gig in "De Klomp" Etten Leur

Yesterday we played a gig in music cafe "De Klomp" in Etten Leur.








Here we are trying to fit all the stuff on the small stage.









And our lady singer has her usual "schrobbeler" before she starts to sing.

Back from Hong Kong

Finally, after a delay of 5 hours, the Jumbo arrived from Holland in Hong Kong, this was because of the storm in Holland.

This is the most strange Chinese guy I've ever seen!

Hong Kong!

The famous Hong Kong taxi.











Boulevard of stars.............










View on Hong Kong island








Another view on Hong Kong island












Tower on star boulevard









Camera shops in Kowloon




Pieter tries to buy a Tokina lens, they don't have, but they will get it and we have to wait for it (at least, that's what we think). I show interest in a german standard 35mm camera. First the guy asks 9800HKD, then he drops to 7800HKD and starts to talk and talk. Then he asks me what I want to pay, I say 50euro, he say: ok, 100 euro. Then I say no. After that his boss goes berserk and starts to argue with me that this was not polite and shit. I don't care and try to convince him that it is the risk of his business. After a while he stops shouting and says: 500 euro or leave. I ask when the Tokina lens is coming and he says: he did not get because he was waiting. Then we leave angry..........they can screw themselves next time, not us! He really wanted to get rid of that old type 35mm analog camera.............and failed again against the Dutch.
Hong Kong - Holland 0-1





Hong Kong island skyline in the evening. Was very difficult with my simple compact Kodak 1.2Mpixel camera.

Dinner with the Chinese guys of our factory!

Here we have dinner with the Chinese guys of the factory that help us with many projects








We have the chicken legs.......










The pigeon heads...........





No, actually, the food was very good, these were just the most "chinese" things.

Working at the sorting machine

Here we are working on the sorting machine. Judging from his laughing face Bert is very happy with it. You can just see mee peeping through the hole while adjusting the machine.








Here we are making the final adjustments

The foot massage!

This evening we went to the foot massage. Afterwards we had some tea.









At the foot massage they already put the christmas tree for next year

Long underpants

Bert spotted some long underpants at the dormitory!

Heavy loaded motorcycle!

On our way to the factory we spotted a very heavy loaded motorcycle, probably with many bags of rice. Look closely

Yinli hotel in the morning

Here's a view of the Yinli hotel in the morning.

Driving back from Zhuhai to Qingxi

Here's the taxi driver that drove me back from Zhuhai to Qingxi, it's a drive of about 2-3 hours, and he didn't know the roads very well.
He was all the time chatting with his CB radio. Funny guy!








Here's the "famous" Zhuhai Fisher Woman. Was difficult to photograph because the driver was going 100 where he was allowed to go 60.








A Chinese truck "on the road".







They carry "fat loads" these Chinese trucks.

Slippy floor sign

Trip to Zhuhai

Today I went to Zhuhai to give a presentation at another customer of ours. Nice holiday-hotel, you can sit on the beach in the sun with a cold glass of beer! This is not bad.

Boss of Yinli golfcourt playing his favorite game

Qingxi city center on a busy saturday afternoon

Lounging at the golfcourt

Here we are relaxing at the golfcourt.









This is the "boss" of the golfclub demonstrating how it should be done.









Pieter and Bert looking








Bert taking a picture with his "cannon".