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SEE ONE LICENSE

Thanks to Vincent, Tamme, Leo and Kees i passed my C1 drivers license this morning. Now we can finally hit the road with our 4wheelmachine. And by that i mean, completely official. I can’t help it that we only last winter discovered the maximum approved weight of our camper was above the 3500kg. Besides that, the text on the registration certificate is really very, very small and nobody told us and we can’t read and never listen and we are stupid. And we’ve been very lucky nobody checked us.

So the circle is completed and confirmed again, luck is with the stupid. No argue on that one.

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TULIPS & MORE

Is it strange to have a vase with beautiful tulips on your table on board? Probably that’s a yes if you’re on the move. But we are still busy getting our beloved lady ready for the upcoming season and I think it’s ok if you are docked.

It’s way to much to mention everything we did and replaced the last week. So besides a million little jobs we also had our Webasto-heater renewed. The old one was in overtime in the amount of burning hours and we didn’t want to take any risk this season. We brought our life raft to a station for an inspection and hopefully a new certificate. At the same time we bought a new set offshore emergency fireworks as ours were outdated last year. I tested the Easymob- ais/dsc beacons we have in our jackets and decided to buy an Oceansignal Epirb also. Just to be as safe as possible in case of an emergency.

When the spring arrives I’ll send to you
Tulips from Amsterdam
When the spring arrives, I’ll pick for you
Tulips from Amsterdam
When I do return I’ll bring for you
Tulips from Amsterdam
Thousand tulips, red and yellow
Wish you all the best my dearest
What I can not say in words
Say the tulips from Amsterdam

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JEG TALER DANSK, IKKE!

There’s only one way to learn this language a bit. Just don’t think of everything you thought you knew about pronouncing words. Why don’t they just use the right letters in the right place in a word? And if you don’t speak out all the letters and words in a sentence, why do you need them? Well i’m getting there slowly, but I’m afraid it’s going to take ages to understand them correctly. Vi ses!

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SMOOTH OPERATING – PERKY

Still lots of work to do before we set course to Denmark or may be Norway or Sweden, but we’re getting there … some day. Last year we had the little fueltank cleaned (we’re not using the big one anymore), changed all the filters twice, flushed the engine with some special stuff to make things run even better. Changed the oil again after that. We changed the complete network of diesel hoses in the engine room, completed them with extra taps to be sure we can shut it all seperately off, including the Webasto and Dickinson heater. The two extra vent/bleed valves are great to get air out of the system if necessary.The engine strings are still ok. We’ve got everything in reserve. Tomorrow i’m going to replace the Separfilters again to be sure everything is still clean. The tank is full. Our Perkins (1977 – 4cil – 75HP) is running perfect and smoother than ever before. With only 7800 working hours the engine will probably keep running for at least another 47 years. Look at this beauty 🙂