Traffic killed me the past seven days. I though taking planes, trains, taxis and subways was terrible, and would have hoped that since I’m back in Holland I could occasionally take the car again, but I’ve been cured already, in just little over a month.
Last Friday the winds were on near the beach. The direction was north-east, meaning it’s almost off shore. I still took my chances and it worked out just fine. It took me about 2 hours to get to Wijk aan Zee though, due to very heavy taffic (on a Friday afternoon!!). Normally it takes only 1 hour…
Saturday my buddy Marc called me and suggested we go to Strand Horst, which is close to my parents’ place. We got some real good kiting done there too. Wouter was also present and showed us his new Genetrix Hydra 12sqm kite. It’s a pretty unknown brand, but what a beauty. Too bad Wouter had his toming wrong, so couldn’t really generate enough power to take off… I used my 12sqm and my 10sqm and had a lot of fun and some big airs. Too bad I tore my 10sqm a bit, so I’m going to have to get that one repaired.
On Monday, I didn’t expect anything spectacular, but around 6.30, Marc called me to say he was going to get a session done at Stichtse Brug, which is about 15 minutes from my place. I immediately took the car and tried to get there. Too bad traffic got after me again(!). This time is was road works that prevented me from taking the highway… It took me 30 minutes and with the sun going down and the wind picking up it was pretty annoying to see time go by while in traffic… In the end still got a good session done. It ended with me doing a pretty big air with some (unplanned) 720 in there, after which my kite inverted and I had to swim back to shore. Oh well, it’s all in the game 
On Monday the world also saw the news of Oracle acquiring Sun. I did a short blog entry about that over at the JTeam blog about my personal opinions on that. Pretty exciting news!
On Tuesday I figured that if I would ever have to give up kiting, I would try taking on the stuff Danny Mac does. The movie below is really cool!
The remainder of the week traffic continued to kill me. I had to drive back and forth to the convention center in Utrecht today and that took me about 45 minutes each way, while it’s only 15 minutes by foot 
