February 15, 2012
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
When you have to work till at leat 5 in the afternoon, and you’re expecting a visitor at 7, and you still need to go to the supermarket to get some groceries ahead of that visitor’s arrival, and you also still want to do your usual Wednesday swim exercise in the pool in between… well, then you have to hurry.
That’s exactly what happened. I left the office at 5:10pm, walked over to my bike and cycled to the swimming pool. At 5:30 or so I was actually in the shower and not soon after in the pool. I did my usual fifty laps, and then another four laps that I typically also do each time: one lap swimming with using arms only, one lap swimming using legs only and then another two laps underwater swimming. At 6:20 I got out of the pool, showered and got dressed and at 6:30 I was on my bike again, on my way to the supermarket. I dashed through the store and was on my bike once more at 6:50 for the very short ride to my house. I got there at 6:55 – nicely in time before the visitor. I even had time to take a picture of my place from the other side of the canal. The scaffolding is still there, but the green door, yeah – that’s mine. Günter, for that was the visitor of course, was there minutes later. It was a very nice evening as usual.
