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acpartsman
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acpartsman, Je n'arrive plus à me souvenir d'où ça vient. Mais oui, avoir cinq vrai amis, je ne sais même pas si c'est possible. Il y a 3 ans, je n'allais pas bien du tout. La plupart des gens (que je pensais des amis) se sont éloignés de moi, voir m'ont carrément enfoncé. Il n'y en a qu'un seul, qui a agit en vrai ami. Un jour il m'a dit très calmement : "Maintenant tu arrêtes de faire n'importe quoi, tu prends ton chien et ton PC, et tu viens habiter chez moi quelques temps". J'ai passé trois mois chez lui, pour me remettre les idées à leur place. Et la vie aimant faire des blagues, peu après, c'est lui qui a eu besoin de mon aide pendant 3 mois. Lui, même si il vient à 4H du matin, la porte sera ouverte. Que bien sûr, de s'être aidé quand on était au plus mal, ça créé une amitié très forte. C'est rare et précieux, un ami comme ça. J'espère que les choses vont s'arranger pour Dave. ---------- I can not remember where it comes from. But yes, having five real friends, I do not even know if it's possible. 3 years ago, I was not well at all. Most people (whom I thought of friends) walked away from me, see me downright. There is only one who has acted as a true friend. One day he told me very calmly: "Now you stop doing anything, you take your dog and your PC, and you come to live at home for a while". I spent three months at home, to put the ideas in their place. And the joking life, soon after, it was he who needed my help for 3 months. He, even if he comes at 4am, the door will be open. That of course, to have helped when we were at the worst, it creates a very strong friendship. It's rare and precious, a friend like that. I hope things will work out for Dave. ![]() Good to hear things worked out for you and that there was someone there for you. ![]()
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And the joking life, soon after, it was he who needed my help for 3 months. Good to hear things worked out for you and that there was someone there for you. ![]() ![]() |
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C'est exactement ça ! Il m'a aidé pendant 3 mois, pour que j'aille mieux. Et à peine deux ou trois semaines après, c'était à mon tour de l'aider pendant 3 mois. A l'époque, on a trouvé ça dur que les problèmes s'enchaînent. Aujourd'hui on en rigole, que ça ait été pendant la même durée, et si proche. Et depuis, bien sûr, quand l'un d'entre nous à un problème, il appelle l'autre. Que pour ne pas se rendre service, faut vraiment ne pas le pouvoir. ---------- It's exactly that ! He helped me for 3 months, for me to get better. And just two or three weeks later, it was my turn to help him for 3 months. At the time, we found it hard that the problems are linked. Today we laugh, that it was for the same duration, and so close. And since, of course, when one of us has a problem, he calls the other. That in order not to be of service, one really does not have the power. |
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Thank you for the recipe for a fireproof campfire, stefada
![]() We have now been able to make a proper breakfast ourselves – inclusive of coffee ![]() Please say hello to your friend from me ![]() Good Morning Base Campers! Shop talk We have shrinked a bit. Our crew today: DeliciousShoesHD Doneske Eric_Kaiser Fossaw little mermaid Speedy51 yodap@BC I have decided that we deal an honorary badge to davewhite5xq7 and to our host flodisar Stockholm is the capital of Sweden, home to about 1 million people. The most well know landmark is the Town Hall which is relatively new – finished in 1923 – and built in what is called a national romantic style inspired by Italian renaissance palazzi. If anything it projects authority – and it looks strangely attractive. ![]() From the tower we’ll enjoy a uniqueview of the city. Gamla Stan is the old neighborhood where we can walk and shop and enjoy the old gable houses, so typical of the beautiful cities of the Hanseatic Confederacy – in many ways a predecessor to the European Union. - I need to say Denmark stayed our of it and called them names ![]() Sweden is a Kingdom ![]() Carl 16th Gustaf is married to Silvia Sommerlath from Germany whom he met at the summer Olympics 1972. He’s the cousin of Denmark’s Queen Margrethe II. The residence of the royal family is the Royal Castle in the middle of Stockholm Djurgården As New York City has its green lung in the form of Central Park, Stockholm has Djurgården where you can go picnicing and a lot more. There is a soccer club called Djurgården as well. One of my favorite footballers – Teddy Sheringham – happens to have played there ![]() The Nobel Prize Committee has its seat in Stockholm and the ceremony for dealing this – probably the most prestigious award in the world is slightly more stylish than what takes place in the Base Camp Hall of Fame - oh, well, we don't have the room for an organ ![]() Waterloo - and who cannot remember the triumph of ABBA at the Eurovision Song Contest 1974? |
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Little Mermaid,
Avec plaisir, si ce que j'ai dit sur les feux peut aider. Pour rappel, à 17 ans, je me suis inscrit chez les pompiers volontaires pour 5 ans. Alors forcément, c'est un sujet qui me touche, et vous avez parlé d'incendie. Je pense que c'est aussi lié à mon éducation, encore. Avec mes frères, je ne sais pas combien de feux on a fait, et encore moins le nombre de kilo de poudre qu'on a fait exploser avec des pétards. Nos parents nous l'interdisait pas, par contre il y avait des règles. Ne jamais le faire en cachette, mais au contraire prévenir. On ne joue pas avec des pétards en dehors du bac à sable. Si on fait un feu, il faut qu'un des parents vérifie que tout est bien fait, qu'il n'y a aucun risque. Au final, on est tous les trois les rois du barbecue ! C'est un peu comme les sécurités sur les briquets depuis quelques années. Pour moi c'est un total non sens. On ne met pas des sécurités sur les briquets pour protéger les enfants, on leur apprend que le feu c'est dangereux. Et il y a des règles pour pouvoir l’utiliser sans risque. Etre sûr de pouvoir l'éteindre avant même de l'allumer, etc. Le pire étant, que quand c'est sorti, c'est une fille de 13 ans, qui a expliqué à son père et moi, comment enlever les sécurités. On était en train de râler que c'était pas pratique. C'est dire l'utilité de la chose. Désolé, je "m’enflamme un peu" (ha ha !). Mais dans 90% des incendies où je suis intervenu, si les gens avaient su ce qu'ils faisaient, ils ne l'auraient tout simplement jamais fait. ---------- With pleasure, if what I said about fires can help. As a reminder, at 17, I enrolled in volunteer firefighters for 5 years. So obviously, it's a subject that touches me, and you talked about fire. I think it's also related to my education, again. With my brothers, I do not know how many fires we did, let alone how many kilograms of powder we exploded with firecrackers. Our parents did not forbid it, but there were rules. Never do it in secret, but on the contrary prevent it. We do not play with firecrackers outside the sandbox. If you make a fire, one of the parents must check that everything is done right, that there is no risk. In the end, we are all three kings of the barbecue! It's a bit like security on lighters for a few years. For me it's a total nonsense. We do not put security on lighters to protect children, we teach them that fire is dangerous. And there are rules to be able to use it without risk. Be sure you can turn it off before you turn it on, etc. The worst being, when it came out, it's a 13-year-old girl, who explained to her father and me, how to remove the securities. We were moaning that it was not practical. This is to say the utility of the thing. Sorry, I'm "a little flaming" (ha ha!). But in 90% of the fires I did off, if people knew what they were doing, they would not have done it. ![]() |
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Yes, isn’t it wonderful with this pool of knowledge and experiences, stefada. Now we get hot coffee every morning even as there is not much rain on its way to Linköping, Sweden.
Good Morning Base Campers! Shop talk Formally our trek to The International Team has come to an end. The crew was composed of acpartsman BladeD DeliciousShoesHD Doneske Eric_Kaiser Fossaw little mermaid Speedy51 tanner2 TLD yodap@BC You have all been dealt a badge in our messy Base Camp Hall of Fame Thank you very much for coming ![]() when we'll pay a repeat visit to adriverhoef’s top40.nl – be sure to have your dancing shoes ready. An honorary badge was dealt to: davwhite5xq7 – who was absent with leave flodisar – whom it has been a pleasure to get to know after all these years NAP2614 – who was willing to make a contact when asked Treks take on a life of their own. They develop a personality to me. This one I think of as civilized and cultured. It has brought forward surprising posts that also dealt with personal issues. This makes me very humble, and I thank you for having the courage to bring these things p, too. We have also made a lot of work. Take a look at this Run Time Graph I’m sorry I didn’t make a note of some numbers when we started and as we finished. Does one of you want a job at keeping-tabs manager? ![]() flodisar, thank you for having us. As you know, we have planned to return to The International Team. When, we do not know yet, but rest assured: We keep an eye on you ![]() Sweden is famous for its ’visor’ – plural of ’visa’. We have the word in Danish as well ’vise’. I don’t know how to put it in English, because it’s not quite a song – or at least it’s a very specialized form. It's narrowly defined, perhaps more a feeling than anything else. It is not quite a ’Lied’ as in German, but is closer to 'Lied' than to ’song’. Adri, Mr Music, how would you word it? We have examples for listening, though: I Roslagens Famn - Hugged by Roslagen/In Roslagen’s Arms - Roslagen being a region with the characteristic archipelago similar to the coast of Maine where we visited recently Jag har bott vid en landsväg i hela mit liv – I have lived at a country road for all of my life and seen people come and go The tradition lives on. Here are couple of newer ones – funny enough made by Cornelis Vreeswijk, a Dutchman who fell in love with Sweden and with Veronica and Felicia An example of the Danish variety sould be Om lidt er kaffen klar – In a Moment the Coffee is Ready ![]() ![]() I found my pictures from Sweden from my brief Jan Bakker period – of Dutch decent – gardener family – so much Dutch … Our smart ADHD King Christian IV imported Dutchmen to grow vegetables at Amager – an island next to Copenhagen to satisfy the demand of the Copenhageners. – the one with the dog is gone, TLD ![]() flodisar, please correct me if you see the text not fitting the pictures if you leaf through the album This one I saved from the DMI (Danish Meteorlogical Institute) website. They put up so many good picture. I thought of Eric_Kaiser: It might stimulate you memories of summers spent at the Vesterhav ![]() ![]() |
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adriverhoef
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Sweden is famous for its ’visor’ – plural of ’visa’. We have the word in Danish as well ’vise’. Ah yes, I recognize the word from 'Dansevise', the winning Danish Eurovision song from 1963. In Dutch that would be 'wijsje' (diminutive of 'wijs'). It's something like a melody, a small song … - leafing, leafing, … ah! here - it's a tune. Veronica's Drive-In-Show had a tune. André Brasseur had several tunes, like The Kid and Early Bird, melodies made popular by the offshore radiostations at the North Sea in the sixties and seventies. |
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... aaahh diminutives
Thank you, adriverhoef Listening to Dansevise I suddenly notice Grethe Ingemann is able to sing syncopatic (if that's the word) - the dragging a tiny bit like Procol Harum and the one you charged me with listening to for 10 days - Zero And Radio Merkur of course had a jingle as well ![]() I think, 'vise' is more like a lullaby for adults ... could I put it that way? Dansevise has some of the qualities ... but this one 'The Elephant's Lullaby ' a little more 'vise'-like, albeit a vuggevise - vugge=cradle - as Solen er så rød mor which you know by heart as I do Zachtjes tikt de regen op m'n zolderraam ![]() Your Early Bird beautiful dance reminds me of my first grebes ever one early morning outside my houseboat room in the Rhine in Arnhem Oh, I just had the most wonderful Windows update - my screen is no longer twilight And it's 10 times as fast as normal - plitter-platter ![]() ![]() |
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Félicitations à tous !
Magnifique trek, que ce soit au niveau des résultats, que des échanges. ----------- Wonderful trek, both in terms of results and exchanges. ![]() Une discussion m'a fait repenser à un endroit de mon enfance. L'occasion de faire une visite entre deux treks ? ----------- A discussion made me think back to a place in my childhood. The opportunity to make a visit between two treks? The trek must go on ? ![]() Quand j'étais petit (de 6 à 10 ans), j'avais l'impression d'habiter là où avait vécu Astérix et Obélix, je vous laisse regarder les cartes : ----------- When I was little (from 6 to 10 years old), I had the impression of living where Asterix and Obelix had lived, I let you look at the maps: ![]() ![]() Bienvenue à Morlaix, une ville portuaire surtout connue pour son viaduc ferroviaire. Je n'y suis jamais retourné depuis, alors pour une fois, ça sera juste une visite photo, sans commentaire. ---------- Welcome to Morlaix, a port city best known for its railway viaduct. I have not been back since, so for once, it will be just a photo tour, without comment. ![]() ![]() L'église Saint Melaine, j'ai oublié le nom de l'autre (donc pas de photos). ---------- Saint Melaine Church, I forgot the name of the other (so no pictures) ![]() ![]() ![]() Les maisons anciennes sont très reconnaissables : ---------- The old houses are very recognizable: ![]() Dans la baie, il y a le Château du Taureau, construit pour protéger la ville des Anglais. ---------- In the bay, there is the 'Castle of Taurus', built to protect the city from the English. ![]() ![]() Cette visite est sponsorisée par un Louloup: ---------- This visit is sponsored by a Louloup: ![]() |
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Thank you, stefada, and thank you, stefada's sponsor of this trip
![]() Suddenly I breathe very fast - it's like a Roman aquaduct and you have trains running up there! I love the rest of you pictures, too, and made a note: Morlaix and from my French stamps I know that Quimper seems to have even more half-timbered houses in this very Brétagne style. If my insurance company refuses to cover me on travels to the USA ![]() it's a comfort to know that I could spend the rest of my lifetime and one more life and one more being a tourist in Europe - or that I can travel at my own risk ![]() |
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