My big, fat, tax-form.

To start off the day, I filled in my tax form. Because it is the first one since my return from Australia, it was the M-form which contains 96 questions. Luckily I only had to fill in about 6.

In the afternoon I went over to Nic to hang up a cabinet for her. I put on my groovy shoes.

Stephen offered me a nice cold beer which I gratefully accepted, of course :-)

Due to the first rays of sunshine, people flocked the terraces. This was empty 2 days ago.

Nic baked a bread for lunch. I need to be well fed before I start working you see ;-)

Steve was checking photos.

I drilled two beautiful holes.

And then I hung up the cabinet. Rock solid. Job well done I think. Very pleased.

Packing.

This is Stephen, my tennis partner, and his son lachlan. He dropped in this morning to buy our TV. I hope it will last him many, many years.

I have started packing my suitcase now. It's starting to get a little bit exciting now. I'lll be so happy to be moving forwards again.

I dropped off a box at the post office and after that we went shopping. Here I was waiting for Nicole in the "clothes" section. You couldn't tell...

The farewell lunch (Star Trek High Five!).

Do I look tired? That's because I was fucking tired. And I wanted kwoffee.

Touch down.

We went to the airport at 06:45 to pick up Nicole's parents who were coming back from vacation. This is their Air Malaysia flight touching down. The landing looked very gracious.

Wog fest 2009. Naturally, because I wanted to make a photo of them arriving, some unknown force in the bloody universe decided to plant 3 families in my line of sight.

The in-laws. Tony and Vicky.

This is my international drivers license with which I can drive a car anywhere in the world for a year. I dunno, it could also be a WWII pass of some sort...

Today we had our farewell lunch at Uleybury. Here we see Greg, Gianna and Nicole.

Stephen, Anna and Greg.

Karin and Stephen.

A particularly good photo (if not the nicest ever!) of natalie and Luke (who actually drove two hours to be there!). Thanks so much for coming guys!

STAR TREK HIGH FIVE!

A bit of after chit chat in the parking lot.

We drove home the scenic way, through the Adelaide hills. Everything was still very green. Pretty soon it will be dry and brown again.

We past a hot rod with a dog in it.

While going home we decided to hit the beach. We went to Largs.

Larg's jetty.

Largs beach.

People fishing at the top of the jetty.

A seagull on a pole.

Do I still look tired? That's because I still was bloody tired.

Me! me! me! ME! mE! ME! me! ME!

If we were Mason's ball...

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We had a breakfast appointment in town today. So we arrived at the Rundle market at 9:15. If you click this photo to see the bigger version, you can see how the city of Adelaide looks very much like a wild-west town. It just needs a dirt road, really.

This is my favorite shop. A lady who sells bags that she made her self. I hate bags but I have great admiration for someone undertaking this and being successful. Her stall shits on the others that sell chemical candy or Amsterdam raggy clothes.

We met Stephen for breakfast. It was very nice to see him again and we were honored that he managed to free up time from his overly bust study-schedule :-)

When we came home, the pigeons were sunbathing on our lawn.

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This is what you would see if you were Mason's ball. Quite the view don't you think?

I mowed the front lawn today. I think our lawn mower is giving up. I wanted to look what was wrong but it's put together in such a way that you cannot open it up. That pisses me off these days...

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I sat down in our garden with mason to clean my bowls. They are coming to The Netherlands with me and I'm planning to bring Night Owls bowls back with me as well!

Tennis in 2009

I had this photo taken for my ex colleagues, in particular my old bosses. Everybody from Furore will recognise this hat. The hat kept my head nice and not too hot. It's good for tennis.

Yours truly hitting a rock hard serve that was way out.

My worthy opponent of today, Stephen.

Volksfest 2008

10 AM, tennis. That will have to be a little bit later next time. 10:30 at least.

I lost the first set ;-)

Working hard on the second set.

We played two sets: 3-6 and 6-1. It was very nice to play again. Our levels of play are pretty equal which makes for an interesting game. We had a couple of excellent and very exciting runs. Next time I should wear a hat though coz I felt a small sun-stroke a few hours later.

After a shower and some lunch we drove down to Port Adelaide where Volksfest 2008 was being held. It's one of Adelaide's oldest neighbourhoods.

Railway Hotel.

Building with my name on it.

Royal Arms Hotel.

Volksfest is a gathering of Volkswagen enthusiasts. If you own one, you can bring it. Naturally there are tons of Beetles...

... but there are also those that make you feel like you're in 1980 Germany.

VW 1500

Herbie is there of course (click for BIG version).

This is the silver version of the New Beetle. I do really like the silver but the stupids won't sell it with a beige interior... Apparently the fashion police doesn't allow silver and beige to be combined. Pfff, what do they know?

I think this is the most common Beetle behind there is.

Less common.

Original. These ones are hard to get I believe.

And here's a red New Beetle like the one we saw yesterday, although yesterdays one was a convertible. I do like the red. I want to turn it in to a fire engine. I think it would look the bomb with blue lights and a big fat white number on it.

A beautiful old convertible.

And then...

... we saw this beauty. This was without a doubt THE most beautifully restored Volkswagen on the show. Click for a BIG version!

A bit of Volkswagen engine. Very simple and reliable design. Click for a BIG version.

This is a Volkswagen "Karman Ghia". I had to look this up on Wikipedia.

They had a decent amount of cars. It was only in one street but it was very nice to see all these oldies.

This one is also restored really nice. Click for BIG version.

Another Karman Ghia. Click for BIG version.

Volkswagens everywhere.

And a tree.

Another very nice restored van.