April 25, 2026

Left around 10:30. Cool but sunny, light winds out of the north. Spring now everywhere. Goose chicks in a field at Wayen, a hare alongside the Langeweg, green everywhere, and only a few blossoms left. Sluispad and Schipperspad and the world of the big barges (oil and gas especially). On the way to the Jutphase brug, the whole world appeared to be riding a bike. Before the bridge the trail alongside the ARK with sirens chasing climate protesters. Gele brug into town. Two major wars, and a number of smaller but no less deadly ones. For now and superficially observed, life in this city goes on undisturbed.