Art is something that I enjoy with the following principle: whatever it might be, if it evokes a feeling, a thought, a memory or just makes you stop, it has intrinsic value. I cannot say that I would have more than an average knowledge about art in any aspect. On the contrary I believe […]

    Dreams are funny, they end up in suprising places in the real life as well… Originally, about 9 months ago, I started to think that it would be nice to have a lasting farewell gift from Netherlands in form of a bike. Along the way I fell for a certain type of a bicycle, […]

Just some random pictures from our recent roadtrip.   Begijnhof Monastery in Leuven. A beautiful place of serenity. Nowadays the monastery buildings house students and university lecture halls, suggesting that the serenity may be broken after the belgian monastery beer has been sampled by its residents..   My significant other found Diorama filter from our camera settings. Brings […]

  I recently made a roadtrip in the nearby country of Belgium to visit some friends and to enjoy the exceptionally good early summer weathers. While at Leuven, the first of the three cities we were going to visit, I noticed that the city was awash with old city-bikes in everyday use. The style was […]

  I must admit that I have an attachment towards old military gear. There’s something about the durability, materials and unbeatable form and function that tickles me the right way. I also share the love for 30-50s style with my significant other, though I do not ”dress up” regularly in vintage clothes, except for few […]

So, a few years onwards and we are at 2013. Couple years on our trusty single speeds and I started to get a feeling that we had found the practical limits of the steeds. We kept doing longer and longer treks in our surrounding area and at one point we found that the butt-department endurance […]

  I thought of that while riding my bike. Albert Einstein on theory of relativity   Now one thing about our mysterious current homeland (with dikes, channels and windmills, take a guess) is that everybody moves on bikes. So among our bucket list was to get our own, if for no other reason, to save […]

        “A bicycle, often called a bike, is a human-powered, pedal-driven, single-track vehicle, having two wheels attached to a frame, one behind the other. A bicycle rider is called a cyclist, or bicyclist.” – Wikipedia   I, like most people, have at least one vivid memory relating to bicycles or cycling as […]