Strike

This morning GVB employees were on strike, 5.30-8.30. The notice says public transport will resume after 8.30. So I went out at 8.30. First it said the next tram would be on 8.44 (that's ok) but it kept on changing 8.47, ..., till in the end it said 9.30. My bike was broken and there is no public transport!

Hamsters

One day I arrived home to find our front door was full of hamsters (stickers) and then, the whole house was also filled with hamsters' posters and stickers.

It's hamster weken in Albert Heijn and one of my housemates just put everything at home with hamsters. (Our garbage bin can no longer be mistakenly identified as someone else's because no where in the neighbourhood there is any other door with hamsters.)

Explosion

No, not bomb explosion. It was my tyre. Yupe, my tyre exploded! When I was in the middle of nowhere!

As today is such a warm (read: hot) day. I was out on my bike. I was heading to the lake and then, all of a sudden BOOM! - my tire exploded. I was in the middle of nowhere (no big road nor public transport in eyesight).

I dragged my bike and the tyre went out of its place (out of that rounded metal thing, both the inner tyre and the outer tyre), making knots, after some time I just couldn't move my bike anymore. So I stopped, turned my bike upside down, untie the knots, putting it back to its position. (Appreciated that I had a crash course on 'how to change your tyre' last year.)

And then an old lady took pity on me, and showed me the way to get to the nearest metro stop. So, that was it. I'm home, tired, and dirty.

Summer for few days

These few days we have tropical weather. Summer weekend! It won't last long though as on Monday it will go down to 15.