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I’m on a biking holiday — first time I’ve done such a thing. Here’s a short summary of what’s happened so far:

Day 8: Utrecht – Zaltbommel

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This day I planned to follow the LF routes to the south. Unfortunately, there were various construction sites in Utrecht, and consequently, some routes were rerouted. Luckily, this was well indicated. Score one for the ANWB / bike tourism! The paths are important enough that temporary breaks are well rerouted! Woo hoo!

That’s what I thought near Utrecht Central station. 200 meters onwards, I began to change my mind. The next crosspoint was nowhere in sight. After biking around for 20 minutes and ending up back where the confusion started, I got fairly annoyed.
Finally, after about an hour, I managed to leave Utrecht, and was on my way. Again, I had some crosspoints, but since I didn’t have a full map of these surroundings, I just followed my route out of Utrecht and then planned to follow the main LF-route. Yeah right.

Many, many annoyances later I arrived at Arnout and Aukje’s place. Seriously, I even managed to mess up the route in Zaltbommel. Today was definitely not my day for following routes. At Arnout and Aukjes, we had a wonderful dinner, I played a bit with the kids, and in the evening, Arnout and I had a nostalgia-inducing flashback by reviewing SokoBan. Arnout and I coded that (in BASIC!) and finished it in 1997. Arnout found an old version, and was rather proud of how complete the game was (menus, level selection, graphics selection, etc.) To my surprise, his version included a “level succesfully completed” routine — I had a version stored somewhere that didn’t have that. Then again, his version missed the autoplay (which any self-respecting game has, right?), which my version had. Same thing for soundblaster support.

Apparently, we had a need for version control back in 1996 and didn’t realise it.

At any rate, we merged the end-of-level cheer routine into my version, and I’ll post a zip-file with all the stuff here. The game runs in Windows 7 under dosbox, which is quite cool (seeing as the game was written in the days of Windows for Workgroups 3.11 / Dos 5.0 — althoug finishing it took a year or two :)

I’m on a biking holiday — first time I’ve done such a thing. Here’s a short summary of what’s happened so far:

Day 4: Eindhoven – Breda

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In Eindhoven, I took most of the day off — my bike wasn’t ready till 4 o’clock anyway. I went to an outdoor shop and got myself another quick-dry shirt for biking, and a new vest to replace the vest I had forgotten to bring (intended to bring 2 vests: one for biking, one for the evening. Ended up bringing just one :s).
My new super-duper vest repels water, is windproof, and should be warm! Which means that till now, I have had zero opportunity to wear it — way too hot :)

At four I picked up my bike, and left for Breda and Bobby. The route was fairly easy: Go to Aquabest, get to the channel, bike on till you turn left and end up near Bobby. Just after passing through Tilburg, the route passed a store and I stopped to pick up a little something for my host: a small bonsai tree. I had to fiddle with the luggage a bit, moving some stuff to the other bike bag, but in the end, it all fit.
Or so I thought.

Imagine my surprise when I got to Bobby and found only one shoe in my bike bags. It was way hilarious, and annoying at the same time.

Nevertheless, it was a good day. I arrived at 8, we had dinner and then went to town. When we got back, we were still chatting, which sort of continued till 3 in the morning. Fun, but since I hadn’t slept much, that was pushing it a bit. Moreover, somewhere in the evening, Bob and myself were invited to a sailing trip the next day. It sounded great, but it involved leaving at 8am…

We managed to be more or less ready to go at 8 am, and were picked up quarter to nine. :s.
The day was great! Sjammy and kwotte are really nice guys, and it was fantastic to be on a yacht once again. In the evening, we had dinner somewhere in town, and sort of stayed till 2am :)

All in all, a fantastic rest day!