Defeated by 250 years of experience...

After yet another productive but unplanned (and hence we're not happy with it) day at the office I took the bus down to Modbury around 17:00. I had never been on this one before which I liked a lot. I love riding on public transport.

This ride was especially cool because it drove over the O-bahn (why is this named in German?!?). The O-bahn is a stretch of road where only special equipped busses can drive. The driver just needs to operate gas and brakes, the steering is done automatically. Even better is that at most stretches the bus is allowed 80 or even 100 km/h.

The ride only took about 25 minutes and took me all the way to the other side of town. Super quick,
After only a five minute walk I reached the bowls club. Deceased members with a special status seem to get an entry or a green named after them. Not uncommon.

I got there early and waited for Nicole who maaged to flee work in time for dinner which we had at the bowls club. The day-time players were just rounding up.

Our team played a team of four older ladies. Old(er) but good. This is me with the ladies' team skipper. The 'skip' is the last one to bowl and usually it's the best bowler. However, we choose to rotate positions so that we all can experience different pieces of the action.

It was tough bowling against these ladies. I reckon there was about 250 years of total experience in their team. Neither team made many points and even though we came back pretty good in the second set of eight ends we lost by 12-9.

Well done ladies.

Afterwards we had some lucky draws. The most entertaining part was the microphone that kept cutting out. Here you see the four ladies against we played.

This is the free newspaper available. I guess they know what age group to target.