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Door: Erik Vroergijk
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21 Juni 2010 | Verenigd Koninkrijk, Londen
Dear all,
I discovered that Eurostar journeys offer the ideal opportunity to work, write, sort pictures and watch movies, so therefore a story from the rails for you. I managed by the way to finally sort out my pictures and pollute the net with them, the links can be found on the bottom of this page. I hope you’ll enjoy watching them and that they make you eager to come over some day, as you’re all invited!
The reason for travelling back to the Netherlands are two notorious exams that still had to be finished. The first one is Ship Motions and Manoeuvring 3, the second one is Signal Analysis, with a bit of luck and good studying of course these will be my last written exams ever. The only exam left then is the master exam in which I’ll have to defend my thesis. Speaking of which, work on that is going amazingly well. The propeller-ice interaction field turned out to be a complex maze with numerous interdependencies, multi-physics, non-linearities and many unknowns. Though, I more or less have the feeling that I managed to master it and am focussing now on setting up some interesting experiments. The week after the exams I’ll travel to the city of Hamburg, where HSVA is willing, though nothing is official yet, to help me with some real ice experiments. If they go on, I’ll probably find myself working in a coldroom in the last weeks of August and the beginning of September. Under “artic” conditions I’ll conduct some destructive ice strength tests, in which specimens get loaded by either compression, tension, or a combination of them up to failure. Idea behind destroying the ice is to establish a reliable temperature and structure dependent material model for ice that can be used in numerical modelling.
On the social side of life everything is going quite well, Kathryn and I didn’t drive each other crazy yet in our small but cosy apartment and we still love each other to pieces. The recent extension of the garden by Accommodation London meant that we were able to have our first BBQ and some green to look at, rather than brick walls, wooden fences and a lonely tree. The bay leave bushes put in the planter however where that big they almost consumed half the garden, reason for us to test our green fingers and my survival knife. By trimming the bushes down and replanting them we created a bit of space to put some more beautiful plants in and some, partly own grown, herbs.
To keep my bodyweight a bit in control, as I’m often eating two full meals a day, I joined Lloyd’s Register Rowing Club. Once or twice a week we go for a row in our “Class Leader” on the Thames (near the O2 Arena) or in the Docklands (Canary Warf). Though the rows normally take an hour or two, my cardio is nowhere near what it was in Cole Harbour, where I cycled 22 kilometres a day over notorious hills. Hopefully Lloyd’s find me a parking spot for my iron horsey soon, as paddling to work would be fun.
The latest walk we did with the Ramblers was in West-Essex and led us from Chingford via Waltham Abbey back to Chingford. Waltham Abbey is an former monastery, which if still be intact, would be insanely big. No wonder that it attracts bus loads of (Dutch, how else of course would you meet on a random day) tourists. It is rather fun though hearing you mother language being spoken in a foreign country. Especially if the people speaking it don’t realise that you can fully understand them up to the point you tell them, by giving them some “local” advice ;).
But this is all for now lads, as the train is approaching Brussels South station, so the stuff have to be packed to catch the connecting train. I might see some of you coming week, as I’ll be in the Netherlands till Saturday the 26th.
Bye bye,
Erik
Netherlands and Peak District:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/NetherlandsAndPeakDistrict?authkey=Gv1sRgCOKcg7T_uu-H5AE#
Windsor Castle:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Windsor?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmjr6iInJ_FFQ#
Greenwich:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Greenwich?authkey=Gv1sRgCMv-pIXlg6CkxgE#
St. Patrick's Day:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/StPatrickSDay?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCJlM7YxL6XUQ#
Edinburgh:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Edinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLYovbzidizwAE#
Walks (Sandwich-Dover / Chingford-Waltham Abbey-Chingford):
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Walks?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLP_tv9v6ucwgE#
I discovered that Eurostar journeys offer the ideal opportunity to work, write, sort pictures and watch movies, so therefore a story from the rails for you. I managed by the way to finally sort out my pictures and pollute the net with them, the links can be found on the bottom of this page. I hope you’ll enjoy watching them and that they make you eager to come over some day, as you’re all invited!
The reason for travelling back to the Netherlands are two notorious exams that still had to be finished. The first one is Ship Motions and Manoeuvring 3, the second one is Signal Analysis, with a bit of luck and good studying of course these will be my last written exams ever. The only exam left then is the master exam in which I’ll have to defend my thesis. Speaking of which, work on that is going amazingly well. The propeller-ice interaction field turned out to be a complex maze with numerous interdependencies, multi-physics, non-linearities and many unknowns. Though, I more or less have the feeling that I managed to master it and am focussing now on setting up some interesting experiments. The week after the exams I’ll travel to the city of Hamburg, where HSVA is willing, though nothing is official yet, to help me with some real ice experiments. If they go on, I’ll probably find myself working in a coldroom in the last weeks of August and the beginning of September. Under “artic” conditions I’ll conduct some destructive ice strength tests, in which specimens get loaded by either compression, tension, or a combination of them up to failure. Idea behind destroying the ice is to establish a reliable temperature and structure dependent material model for ice that can be used in numerical modelling.
On the social side of life everything is going quite well, Kathryn and I didn’t drive each other crazy yet in our small but cosy apartment and we still love each other to pieces. The recent extension of the garden by Accommodation London meant that we were able to have our first BBQ and some green to look at, rather than brick walls, wooden fences and a lonely tree. The bay leave bushes put in the planter however where that big they almost consumed half the garden, reason for us to test our green fingers and my survival knife. By trimming the bushes down and replanting them we created a bit of space to put some more beautiful plants in and some, partly own grown, herbs.
To keep my bodyweight a bit in control, as I’m often eating two full meals a day, I joined Lloyd’s Register Rowing Club. Once or twice a week we go for a row in our “Class Leader” on the Thames (near the O2 Arena) or in the Docklands (Canary Warf). Though the rows normally take an hour or two, my cardio is nowhere near what it was in Cole Harbour, where I cycled 22 kilometres a day over notorious hills. Hopefully Lloyd’s find me a parking spot for my iron horsey soon, as paddling to work would be fun.
The latest walk we did with the Ramblers was in West-Essex and led us from Chingford via Waltham Abbey back to Chingford. Waltham Abbey is an former monastery, which if still be intact, would be insanely big. No wonder that it attracts bus loads of (Dutch, how else of course would you meet on a random day) tourists. It is rather fun though hearing you mother language being spoken in a foreign country. Especially if the people speaking it don’t realise that you can fully understand them up to the point you tell them, by giving them some “local” advice ;).
But this is all for now lads, as the train is approaching Brussels South station, so the stuff have to be packed to catch the connecting train. I might see some of you coming week, as I’ll be in the Netherlands till Saturday the 26th.
Bye bye,
Erik
Netherlands and Peak District:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/NetherlandsAndPeakDistrict?authkey=Gv1sRgCOKcg7T_uu-H5AE#
Windsor Castle:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Windsor?authkey=Gv1sRgCKmjr6iInJ_FFQ#
Greenwich:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Greenwich?authkey=Gv1sRgCMv-pIXlg6CkxgE#
St. Patrick's Day:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/StPatrickSDay?authkey=Gv1sRgCMCJlM7YxL6XUQ#
Edinburgh:
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Edinburgh?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLYovbzidizwAE#
Walks (Sandwich-Dover / Chingford-Waltham Abbey-Chingford):
http://picasaweb.google.nl/E.A.J.Vroegrijk/Walks?authkey=Gv1sRgCLLP_tv9v6ucwgE#
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