As stated in their email in which I received this medal: pure bragware! In that case ... Let's brag!

Contrasts

Last week a friend and colleague of mine took me to visit a vineyard in the region where we work. After a 30 minutes drive we arrived in a small village called Heuchelheim-Klingen where Weingut Alfred Franger & Sohn is long-standing. My friend knows these people for over 15 years already and we were very friendly welcomed. And after 15 minutes we were already in the wine-tasting room! I told the lady of the house that I lately find that most German wines all taste the same, in some way. She began to laugh and told me that the taste I meant, is typically for this region! So she poured a centimeter of a light red wine, and that was exactly the taste I meant. Then we went on to taste some other red wines - and oh man, was I surprised! Completely unexpected flavours of oak, lychee, smoked wood, vanilla and more.

Their son, who is also in the family-business, joined us and he is really full of enthusiasm and has a drive to make the best wines and trying out new ways of doing this! We were given the honor to taste a wine, bottled last weekend, made through a completely new and daring process. Well, even a week old, this young wine was really fantastic!

My friend had planned to go here anyway to buy a few boxes. But he was by car! I had come to work by train. So I just picked one bottle of each wine I was allowed to taste during our pleasant conversation and dragged a box home with me.

Being with real wine-lovers and talking about wine and such, is always very nice. So I list here some of their, all very good!, wines, in no particular order (but it might be alphabetic), and my favorites are marked:







Here are some photo's from their street and terrace:



A view of the village


The tasting room


The terrace outside

My standard business trip to the office in Germany. Always by train, it's the most comfortable way to travel.

Ben ik aan het wandelen in een stuk bos waar ik nog niet eerder was, kom ik opeens een gedenksteen tegen. Wel een mooie.

Weer een #scifi boek van Fredric Brown met ook weer allerlei korte verhalen. Bij deze ook voor u, goed te lezen op iPhone en iPad.

Veel leesplezier!

Download het boek vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.

I have created a page of how I recently found a cool way to use #RapidWeaver, #Lasso and #Coda at the same time and use RapidWeaver only for the framework, which it does very good.

A dog drinks

I made this artwork on my iPhone using different photo manipulating apps. It's called 'a dog drinks'.
Fits modern art perfectly! No need to understand or 'get' it.

Building

Deze keer een #scifi boek! Ik heb alle andere verhalen van Fredric Brown al digitaal gevonden, onvertaald weliswaar, alleen de verhalen in deze bundel kon ik niet allemaal vinden. Daarom heb de pocket gescand en aan de digitale verzameling toegevoegd. Bij deze ook voor u, goed te lezen op iPhone en iPad.

Veel leesplezier!

Download het boek vanaf mijn Dropbox account. Dit is een voor iedereen toegankelijke map.