If you want to communicate with someone call them or send a text. It's quite simple. The whole world doesn't need to know you're doing that. What a mess we've gotten ourselves into with our social media and our media and our phones.
...but I forget where I read it.
Sunny 2022
2022 is the sunniest since records began in 1901, with the number of hours of sunshine set to top 2100 on Tuesday or Wednesday, the Telegraaf reported on Tuesday. (and still with 7 weeks to go).
Boat Stuff
The route to Rotterdam - interactive (Google) map with photos
https://www.google.com/maps/d/edit?mid=1AtNDYhZmu3i-OmAO_fEeDKbGkAFqZPc&usp=sharing
Interesting facts
In 1904 a dam was built in the Maas near Well and Poederoijensehoek, creating the Afgedamde Maas. (Dammed Maas)
The Afgedamde Maas consists of a Maas branch and a Waal branch, separated by the Wilhelmina lock at Andel. This is the only fan lock in the Netherlands with a 'green chamber': the walls of the lock chamber are covered with grass.
In addition, there is a lock, the Kromme Nolkering, in the Heusdensch Canal. The lock was constructed after very high water levels occurred in 1995 and it turned out that the dikes along the Heusdensch Canal and the Afgedamde Maas offered insufficient protection.
Maastricht to (Belgium) Namur 92kms
...and so this armchair voyage goes on pause....
German and Dutch police have seized the biggest haul of illegal fireworks in their history following the arrest of 10 members of a criminal gang.
Some 350,000 kilos of fireworks, imported from Italy, Poland and China and bound for the Dutch illegal market, were discovered in the former Nato bunkers in Rheine near the Dutch city of Enschedé. Last year police seized around 120,000 kilos of illegal fireworks in the same place. Kingpins of the gang were three Dutch nationals aged 27, 31 and 34 from Nieuwegein. Police started following their trail two years ago prompted by intercepted messages on encrypted service provider Encrochat. The bunkers, which were piled high with boxes containing the fireworks, did not comply with any safety norms, police fireworks expert Erik Kooijker said
Refugees
Plans to ease the bottleneck in the asylum system by legally requiring local councils to accommodate refugees are facing strong resistance from the largest coalition party, the VVD. MPs for the right-wing liberal party have not yet agreed to support a law proposed by VVD asylum minister, Eric van der Burg, which would allow him to allocate refugees to municipalities whether or not they agreed, NOS reported, citing unnamed sources. At the moment the cabinet negotiates with local authorities on where to accommodate asylum seekers and people who have been given settled status – known as ‘statushouders’.
The proposal is now going ahead - local governments will be allocated so many refugees that they have to take - they get financially compensated for it, including a €2500,00 "bonus" per refugee.
This also annoys me, that our own local goverment were being so "tight" by not covering the energy costs - it's not even their own money!
Army exercise to "retake Drachten Airport".
There was a major (presumably NATO) exercise at our local Drachten Airfield. It was probably no coincidence that it was a full moon...?
...making the real war feel even closer to home...
spot the helicopter? There were lots of them but difficult to see below the treeline.
A tough night in front of the fire...
Preparing the boat bits...
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