Watching the clouds

Apart from searching on Twitter, another way to see what the weather is doing on Lanzarote is to look at a weather forecast, or even a satellite photo of the island.

Of course, the photo needs to be as recent as possible, and one site offering such as service is Tenerife webcams.

They publish a meteosat feed that updates every 3 hours, so you can watch the clouds come and go throughout the course of the day.

Flying cars

Who hasn’t dreamt about a flying car after watching films like “Back to the future” and “The Man with the Golden Gun“?

One possibility for that dream to become a reality may come from the Dutch Aerospace Laboratory, as this article reports.  Their solution is more of a combined car and helicopter, which would fly in GPS-controlled air corridors.  And yes, apparently it will be able to run on bio-ethanol.

I wonder how long it will be, until I can fly to my customers?

Frankfurt-Eschborn Cityloop

Each year on 1st May (Maifeiertag) the main road out of Oberursel is closed off for a cycle race which this year was re-named as the “Frankfurt-Eschborn Cityloop”.  This means that for anything up to 2 hours we are unable to get out of our road.  Even the U-Bahn stops running!

Junioren

Juniors

The answer, of course, is to either get out early or to stay and watch the race – and the drivers arguing with the police that they need to go somewhere.

U23

U23

My daughter and I opted for the 2nd option this year.  To find out more, listen to the podcast:

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