My classic French car (Citroën Dyane)

After many requests, hereby a blog on my classic car! It is a Citroën type Dyane6, built in 1976. This car has only 2 cylinders (opposite to each other), total 602 cc and 33 HP. However, the (telescopic) suspension is fantastic, taking curves is always very exciting; especially at high speed and it is a cabriolet! And, YES, I can (just) reach the maximum allowed speed on highways in the Netherlands: 120 km/h (= ~75 mile/h). Moreover, there is almost no electronics present, hence easy to repair and it always starts! Last but not least: the faster you drive, the better the cooling for the engine since it is air-cooled (not water cooled), hence, never a 'boiling' engine!

Too high water level! (or "The earth", part 2)

Great to finally see Bernd and Saskia's -9.4 meter- sailboat the Columbine, yesterday, but we almost had to swim back because of the extremely high water and the (too) quick increasing sea level! At arrival in the harbor of Scheveningen around 22:00h we already saw cars and trucks in the water until the axes, so we had difficulties getting onto the pier.
However, after seeking shelter in the boat because of heavy rain and extreme winds (we measured >26 m/s (>90 km/h)) there was no getting off the 'pier' anymore....the water had risen at least 30cm in the 15 minutes that we were in the boat.... I phoned Saskia, who was waiting for us in the car on "dry land", no answer, then Bernd found a pontoon, but this was a bit large and unstable.... Finally I managed to get on top of a pier-post (normally several meters above the surface, now only ~40 cm above the surface, some of them even invisible) and jump 1.5 m to "dry land".... for Bernd (short legs ;)) we arranged a wooden step ladder that was floating in the water, with this we bridged the gap between the pier and "dry land"............ very exciting!!!!