Amsterdam

Doortje had to do a course the week after the wedding and it gave us a chance to catch up with old friends who were on the same course. Left is Johan and Wima is on the right, both colleagues from Budapest. Johan is now in Madrid and Wilma is in Oslo but she is being posted back to the Hague as an inspector this summer.

The Wedding Reception of Harmen and Hester

I wish I had taken more pictures, I missed half the family.

Off To Holland

We flew home to celebrate the wedding of Harmen and Hester. Doortje took the picture above as we were flying over Austria.

Earth Observatory - Nile Delta Dust Storm

On April 17, 2007, desert winds whipped up a severe dust storm over Cairo,according to the Associated Press. Poor visibility shut down Cairo’s airport for several hours. At 09:05 UTC the same day, the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite captured this image of dust blowing northward along the Nile and fanning out over the Mediterranean Sea.

In this image, dust partially obscures the view of the Nile well inland from the coastline. The dust grows especially thick near the coast, just west of the Nile Delta. A fine gray outline shows the coastal contour through the dust. Just southeast of the storm is a bank of clouds, potentially associated with the same weather system that kicked up the dust around Cairo.

NASA image by Jeff Schmaltz, MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center.

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