It wasn't as dark as this photo suggests, but it was a cloudy day without rain. I went for a short bike ride, but since I'm not used to going outside anymore, I was still overwhelmed with hundreds of small impressions.
I couldn't stop to take a picture of everything I noticed. I did stop when I saw a magpie sitting on a sheep's back, but I scared it off and it flew away.
Although I staid close to home, I took one road I'd never taken before, the Waalseweg through Tull en 't Waal, while the villagers were walking to church (fewer than I expected actually - Wikpedia says it's a Catholic village with a Protestant church). Next time I should take a picture of the primary school where the street furniture is painted in the school colors for extra safety.
I went off the road and paused on a driveaway to make way for a passing car - until it stopped to enter that driveway. Later on, I was passed by a pizza courier on an electric bike. Although he rang his bell, I couldn't hear where he was and he'd passed me before I could see him. This might be more dangerous than electric scooters.
In the neighborhood of Vreeswijk, which otherwise looks like a walled medieval town, I noticed protest signs against demolition plans on a row of ugly houses in the style of the 1970s. I understand that pensioners want to keep living there, and I know their housing association's reputation for lazy maintenance, but demolition and building new houses would probably be a visual as well as a structural improvement.
As always, I enjoyed looking at ships, and I saw a number of freight barges with peculiar names:
- Consensus
- Visioen (mystical vision)
- Mededinger (competitor)
- Basta
- Amor Tussisque Non Celerat (love or a cough can't be kept hidden)
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