Day 12 Date: July 4, 2014 Total bear count: 6 Weather: Sunny with clouds and hot: 27 degrees The motel did not offer breakfast so we went for our awesome salami pickle sandwiches. We fixed our caffeine problem at the MacDonalds. First stop for today was Mount Edith Cavell in Jasper. Sadly the end of the trail was closed because… Read more »
Date: July 3, 2014 Total bear count: 5 Weather: Sunny and hot: 25 – 30 degrees We ate stale bread for breakfast with two sacks of coffee in the machine, so the coffee was at least good! We first did the Lake Kinney walk, because I saw in the logs that my brother and I did that as well. A… Read more »
Day 9 When: July 1, 2014 Total bear count: 2 Weather: sunny and hot, 25-29 degrees We did not have breakfast in the motel. We did have coffee so we made our own. But today was a very special day! It is Canada day! This is celebrated by eating pancakes with each other in the morning. HW found out where… Read more »
Day 6 Weather: sunny with sometimes a small rain shower. 19 to 22 degrees We started the day with a decent breakfast with some toast and cereal. As usual the coffee was horrible. Let us hope that it will be better again in Canada. We were hoping that Mt. Rainier would be visible. But unfortunately it was still very clouded…. Read more »
Day 4 Weather: Sunny with clouds 15-19 degrees We started the day with an horrible breakfast at the motel: a banana and a danish. The coffee was good though. Before leaving to Olympic national park we stopped at the post office across the street to deliver a package for dear friends. When we arrived at the park we had a… Read more »
Time for another holiday! This time me and my friend Hendrik Wietze (HW for short) will drive through Canada  and a bit of Washington state for the next three weeks. Depending on time and hotel internet I will try to keep you guys up to date again through this weblog. Day 1 Weather: sunny with rain on Vancouver Island. About… Read more »
Below a small report of my latest vacation to Brasil. Me and my brother went there for a week to visit our other brother. Day 1  This was a travel day. We arrived at Belem a city in the North of Brasil very late. My oldest brother Bert picked us up at the airport. And we drank a beer before… Read more »
If you read my reports about film music festivals on this web log, you know that I write them during or at least very quick after the festival. This time I just did not had the time to do that. I have written a report for the Dutch film music magazine Score. This is a simple translation of that report…. Read more »
Sadly the last day of this festival. Since we had a busy day yesterday we decided to relax during the day. We drank coffee in the lobby, went for some drinks and spent some time in the pool. The last concert started at 20:00 so went for a quick bite at the McDonalds. The last concert was named a ‘gala’…. Read more »
Day 2 The second day of this festival started pretty slow for us. During the day we went for some drinks, did some shopping and spend some time at the pool. In the evening we went to our second concert of this Festival. For those who do not know: I am a tuba player in a concert band in my… Read more »