It was beatiful weather on Saturday and so we took a trip to Pui Oh beach, on Lantau Island.

It’s only a good couple of hours hiking from Discovery Bay and really the beach is one of the best in Hong Kong.

We spend the whole day sitting in “Ohlala restaurant” and the kids had fun playing in the beach and in the waves.

With this kind of a beach near by there’s no reason at all to travel to Thailand!

A meteorite hit a Peruvian village 2 days ago.

The news I’ve seen mostly speaks about the mysterious illness that’s hitting the villagers near by. Obviously that’s a concern and I hope those people will be able to weather this!

But the key point I figure is that meteorites hit the earth - more or less randomly - and that this particular one created a 30 meter wide and six meter deep hole in the ground!

The odds are very low, but it might just as well hit a densely populated area and plunge into an appartment building?

Fortunately most of the surface is covered by the Oceans, but even then - you’d be miserable if you’re just out there on that spot the next one hits!

[ from AFP ]

Mystery illness strikes after meteorite hits Peruvian village
2 days ago

LIMA (AFP) — Villagers in southern Peru were struck by a mysterious illness after a meteorite made a fiery crash to Earth in their area, regional authorities said Monday.

Around midday Saturday, villagers were startled by an explosion and a fireball that many were convinced was an airplane crashing near their remote village, located in the high Andes department of Puno in the Desaguadero region, near the border with Bolivia.

Residents complained of headaches and vomiting brought on by a “strange odor,” local health department official Jorge Lopez told Peruvian radio RPP.

Seven policemen who went to check on the reports also became ill and had to be given oxygen before being hospitalized, Lopez said.

Rescue teams and experts were dispatched to the scene, where the meteorite left a 100-foot-wide (30-meter-wide) and 20-foot-deep (six-meter-deep) crater, said local official Marco Limache.

“Boiling water started coming out of the crater and particles of rock and cinders were found nearby. Residents are very concerned,” he said.

It’s already a month back, but we hadn’t gotten around to writing on this page about our holiday in Holland.

Ik ga eens in het Nederlands verder voor de verandering.

Het was een korte en intense vakantie in Nederland. 40 jarig huwelijk van pa en ma (opa en oma) en verder het bezoeken van diverse vrienden en familie. Elke dag dus erop uit en we hebben heel wat kilometers afgeraced in onze gehuurde ‘bolide’.

Pa en ma’s feest was een succes vooral doordat het een van de enige mooie dagen qua weer was. Zie hun eigen fotoos hier: http://www.mijnalbum.nl/Album=VZ8LUS4X

Veertig jaar bij elkaar - en nog veel langer natuurlijk. Nadine en ik zitten pas op vier jaar, maar we plannen ook minimaal voor 40 jaar.

Matthijs heeft genoten met zijn vele nichtjes en neefjes, maar vooral met Yanieke - over wie hij het hier nu nog heeft.

Verders hebben we Robbin in levende lijve aanschouwd, de nieuwste aanwinst binnen de familie - en Robbin is dus ook een gezonde dame. Ook al was ze slechts drie weken oud, ze was al van de partij in veel van de dingen die we hebben gedaan.

Vrienden uit Nederland natuurlijk ontmoet, en ook anderhalve dag in Groningen doorgebracht, met vrienden uit Hong Kong notabene. Dan is het toch weer bijzonder dat je 8000 km verderweg met z’n allen in een boerderij in Zuidwending rond het kampvuur staat.

Fotoos hieronder.