Fall weather
19 Wednesday Oct 2022
Posted Heidelberg
in19 Wednesday Oct 2022
Posted Heidelberg
in14 Friday Oct 2022
Posted Heidelberg
inWe are still busy setting up our new place, making good progress while I take my once daily trip to the Kopfklinik. The guest room is ready. Andrea is close by, staying with a friend and working from Heidelberg for a couple of weeks. She helped us last night, with a good friend of ours, setting up the bedroom wardrobe.
05 Wednesday Oct 2022
Posted Heidelberg
inWe are back in Heidelberg and very busy. We are trying to furnish our new flat, and delivery times for furniture are rather long. Plus we need all kinds of other things that require multiple trips to the hardware store. We are also dealing with the bureaucracy of moving from Canada to Germany, which turns out more complex and bothersome than we anticipated. Our boat in Vancouver is for sale, and shortly after it went live on the Internet, we received the first offer, resulting in us having a late night to overlap with Vancouver time. I am also still involved in some biotech stuff, and have to go to the Heidelberg university clinic for daily radiation therapy. The weather was great today, warm sunshine and I am taking some time off to join Fat Bear Week in Katmai National Park Alaska (virtually), watching bears fishing and voting for the fattest.
Katmai National Park, Alaska
live https://explore.org/livecams/brown-bears/brooks-live-chat
meet the bears https://explore.org/meet-the-bears
The BBC also picked up the Fat Bear Week story (a day later).
02 Sunday Oct 2022
Posted On the water, Travel
inWe came to Zurich yesterday to celebrate a wedding anniversary of good friends. We stayed in a 600 year old inn, but had an excellent modern dinner and a quiet night. The party was on the car deck of a ferry on Lake Zurich, with great food and music, lots of dancing and meeting old and new friends. The weather was cold, windy and wet in the morning, in the afternoon the sun came out. We had a great day!
22 Thursday Sep 2022
Posted Heidelberg, Travel
inWe are spending time in Heidelberg, staying at houses of various friends. We found a two bedroom apartment to rent from next week on, close to where we lived in the early 90s with the kids. This week Sheila is in Manchester, I am dealing with medical stuff. The weather is beautiful and sunny during the day but quite chilly at night.
12 Monday Sep 2022
Posted Travel
inWe have arrived in Germany and are spending the night in Wiesbaden. In front of our hotel balcony is a plane tree with over 100 parakeets roosting and a plaza with some jazz musicians playing very nicely. Sheila is convinced that the parakeets try to join the music, unfortunately I can’t post a video. The sound is absolutely amazing.
06 Tuesday Sep 2022
Posted On the water
in05 Monday Sep 2022
Posted On the water
inWe celebrated Andrea’s birthday with a nice brunch on the boat and then came into Snug Cove on Bowen Island. After lots of rain yesterday, today was nice and sunny again. This afternoon, Andrea took the ferry back to Vancouver.
03 Saturday Sep 2022
Posted On the water
inWe spent the day in Port Graves and hiked to Lost Lake in the afternoon (4km one way, and we found the lake). Today was still sunny, but the forecast for tomorrow is rain. Some friends we went sailing with in Tonga in 2002 are also anchored here and we had a nice chat on the way back.
02 Friday Sep 2022
Posted On the water
inWe came into Howe Sound this morning, and first stopped at Plumber Cove on Keats Island. Sheila and Andrea went on a long walk on Keats and then we all went into Gibsons for a late lunch (wonderful seafood). In the evening we came into Port Graves on Gambier Island.