Author: René Seindal
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Venice Kayak
Ever thought about going paddling in Venice? Paddling down the Canale Grande, under the Rialto Bridge, through all the small obscure little canals, dodging gondolas along the way? Just come along on our adventure. Marco Ballarin and myself are running Venice Kayak Srl , an Italian company which organises guided tours in kayak in Venice…
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The Colour Orange
I found this in my mail today. The idea is to associate the colour orange with a protest against the human rights abuses in China. Seems like an interesting way of getting an unwelcome message through the censorship, but it relies of a lot of people doing it. For the press, the mailing list and…
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Good news from the home front
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My wife Valentina has found a new job. She’s been working in the other end of the country, some 350km away, so she had an apartment there and we’d only see each other in the weekends. Now she’ll be working much closer, in Ringsted about 60km from Copenhagen, so she’ll be coming back here to…
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The workings of the mind …
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Sometimes two persons can share an experience and walk away with two completely different recollections of it, as if they didn’t share a thing. Apparently, it can also happen that two persons share an experience and walk away with almost identical recollections of it, only with the roles reversed. The workings of the human mind…
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Wind turbine woes
David Johnston at PaddlingInstructor.com has put up a video of a Danish wind turbine blowing up in the wind. Direct youtube link here. Aeolian energy is huge here in Denmark and we get a significant part of our electricity from the wind. We have wind turbines plastered all over the landscape, so much that there…
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More photos from Sardinia
My good friend Francesco Muntoni who runs Cardedu Kayak in Sardinia, has started uploading photos from his home island to flickr. A month from now I will be down there again, to visit Francesco and to paddle the magnificent coast. Francesco is currently the custodian of my Skim Distance, seen here at Porto Quau in…
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Venice Dried Out
An extraordinary low tide left parts of the old town almost blocked yesterday, with canals dried out, gondolas stuck in the mud, and public transportation in difficulties. An ordinary low tide in Venice is between -40cm and -30cm but this one reached -72cm when it was at its lowest. At -60cm transportation in the city…
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Microsoft® SilverLight
I just ran into a site that required Microsoft® Silverlight, but I cannot install it: thought it provides “Compelling Cross-Platform User Experiences” Apparently “cross-platform” is a rather restricted concept at Microsoft, meaning “works somewhat on a Mac too”
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Spring at last
It seems spring is on its way around here. Flowers in the forest New leaves My beagle Jamil is taking a mud bath Look how beautiful he has become 🙂 Not everything is beautiful in the forest. Somebody is preparing for another year’s crop of organically grown couch potatoes 🙂 (all photos are taken with…
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The Ultimate Kayak Trip
I sure hope this is a joke or, if not, that they call of the trip. Don’t miss out on their section of “Why” and “Dangers”.
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Going back to Sardinia
I’m heading back to Sardinia soon. My wife Valentina and I will spend the Easter holiday with my in-laws in Palermo, and immediately afterwards we’ll be on the ferry to Sardinia. We’ll spend almost a week with my good friend Francesco Muntoni in the Ogliastra region on the east coast of Sardinia. Valentina then returns…
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Paddling Planet
We’ve had Paddling Planet running for over a month now, and it seems to be reasonably popular and well used. The site has about 100 visitors each day, which hopefully translates to well over 100 visits to the blogs on the planet. Few people linger on Paddling Planet, the average visit is less than 3…