• Training – a week of whatever with a Suunto Ambit

    Since Expeditie Geluk, the let’s-walk-around-the-Netherlands-epic I have a Suunto Ambit watch.The watch does more then just show the time. It’s an alti/barometer, compass, heart rate monitor, time keeper and most of all also a GPS watch that can be connected to the internet.I got the thing for free for Expeditie Geluk. Free is always a …

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  • Because who is perfect?

    A couple years ago I wasn’t a freelancer yet.I found it really hard to find a job in between all the climbing that I wanted to do and all I studied seemed useless.So I started for a employment agency. Once I got a call and they asked me if I was strong enough to sand …

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  • Ze Zermans

    I’ve been in Germany for a week now.  And so much can happen in one week time. View from our new home in Kleinweiler We arrived last Monday evening. Pulled everything out of the car and went to bed.  The whole bedroom was filled with stuff and we realised that giving away furniture results in …

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  • Work readings

    Next to wanting to be a climber I sometimes also have to earn money in other ways.Teaching height safety courses for example.A new safety guideline came out for work in the wind energy sector. ‘Arbocatalogus Windenergiebedrijven‘.

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  • Preparing for January

    . Last year I wrote a post with exactly the same title. And this year again we’re preparing…for the big Winter trip. Theres so much to do: administration, financials, training and of course…the van. Dennis’ still has his VW Syncro and tries to get it ‘Winter proof’ again. ‘New’ gearbox, ‘new’ engine, all the interior …

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  • Just a blog post

    These days I’m pretty busy with all kinds of things. I have to work (money…) I need to climb and actually I should study (no time for it…) and I have to do administration things and make a movie about the STS and arrange all things for the first aid trainings (=part of my work) …

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  • Competition weekend

    Back in the Netherlands. With a really busy schedule. From Bergschenhoek to Muiden to pick up my parents. They cycled over 2700km for their pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela! See here their report. Then I went to Bussum (work, teaching a First Aid course) then on to Ommen (being First Aid volunteer on Dennis school …

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  • Climbing times :) Finally

    Sorry, something went wrong with getting this post online. I just lost all my text and pictures. Nice. So here agin. Shortly. 1. I’d been working. A lot. For a couple weeks I was just working, sleeping, eating, working and if I was lucky I had some time to climb. Frustrating, but I knew I …

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  • IRATA in the Zoo

    Except from just climbing, climbing and climbing I’m also….working… Although it was basically a ‘high-class cleaning job’ it was still better then most work I can imagine. Together with Rob, Robert, Thimo, Sjoerd, Carl and Michel I was literary hanging around in the zoo. Cleaning a big cloth that represented a sea view in the …

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