http://www.winsome.nl NED 118 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 08:56:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en All the best for 2012. We hope it will bring us good health, favourable winds, sunshine, and many podium finishes. The concept race agenda is now on the site. For further inquiries and questions please contact Boj. He will sort all our wishes and make the definitive planning.   http://www.winsome.nl/2012/01/01/happy-new-year/ This year Winsome will celebrate her 40th birthday. Now it is not the kind of thing you do, to ask a lady her age, but some things in life can not pass unnoticed. It is quite an achievement for a lady of this age, not only to compete at inshores ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/29/winsome-2012/ Lisboa Our two stowaways scrolling through Lisbon direction France... bye bye Portugal hello France (Normandie) On both trips some God wanted to show us that it is already winter in Europe. Bad weather, icing, outside temperature at FL260 minus 43 degrees Celcius. We could not even have used our boots at these temperatures (one of ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/20/last-legs-lisboa-cherbourg-budel/ The trip will come very soon to an end. Last week I realized that the world keeps turning. Happy and unhappy events interchanged: my grandson Theun appeared on Dutch TV in the Junior Master Cook Competition, my friend/Master of the Zebráky Hounds had a very bad accident with his horse and ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/16/jumping-from-1-praia-cabo-verde-to-laayoune-el-aaiun-moroc-2-laayoune-to-marrakesh-3-marrakesh-to-lisboa/ bye bye Natal... One month after we made our first Atlantic crossing, Praia-Natal, we made our return crossing Natal-Praia. The first time, Praia-Natal, we had to fight 8 knots of headwind and the rotating of the earth from East to West. This time we had two advantages i.e. 5 knots of ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/12/second-jump-over-the-atlantic/ bye bye Belem We closed the loop with a fairly easy trip from Belem to Natal. After our very nice but exhausting visit in hot and humid Belem we could use a break and we got it. At the end of the extremely nice reception and touring around by Expedito Menezes, we ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/11/closing-the-south-american-loop-of-about-10k-nm-arriving-the-2nd-time-in-natal-brasil/ We left Manaus for a three hours flight to Belem. What we did not know, is that we again would arrive in a 2M city, like Manaus. The flight went without any problems. In spite of hazy weather, no thunderstorms. Under us jungle, jungle and jungle with many many arms of ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/09/from-one-small-village-in-brasil-to-another-one/ On the 4th of December, we departed from Iquitos to Manaus, a flight of 03:30. This was exactly the day my oldest grandson, Theun, would appear on Dutch TV in a competition for Junior Master Chief Cook. Unfortunately all my efforts to look at an iPod or YouTube movie of ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/07/from-peru-back-to-brasil-the-second-time-in-brasil-on-this-trip/ before DEP in Cuzco bye bye Cuzco ...hello Iquitos PC12 and Fokker F27 Our perfectly prepared, calculated and thoroughly discussed take-off at Cuzco, went alright. In spite of the very slow slope we used to get away at this altitude, we always stayed on the edge of not having a shaker warning. As a ... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/05/taking-off-at-10860-in-cuzco-peru-landing-at-306-in-iquitos-peru/ Cuzco MACHU PICCHU special guest... http://www.winsome.nl/2011/12/03/cuzco-and-machu-picchu-photos-will-do-the-talking-this-time/