Wim Harwig

Categorie: our holy cows

  • Roads today are safer

    “The roads today are safer for it” says the narrator ……   What about bicyclists ? Roads will only be safer when every steering wheel is fitted with a sharp dagger which ends about 5 inches from the driver’s chest.

  • Buick Business Class 1937

    My neighbour’s son bought this fine restored Buick. I immediately took some photos ! Buick Business Class 1937, originally uploaded by wim harwig.

  • car on fire

    In this time of the year a lot of Germans are visiting our beaches. Usually they own nice expensive cars and motor-homes. But this time there was something wrong inside this good looking sportscar with German license-plates, a short circuit in the electronics . I was too late to give any help. I felt like…

  • de Speld

    De Speld started “Globaal Nieuws” (roughly news).

  • La France

    Just a few days in France with our motorhome.

  • motorhome

    My old motorhome needed a safety-check. I used the opportunaty to take a look at the “motorhomes for sale” of Chinook. There was this one that I liked ….. But I decided not to buy it and keep on rolling another few years with my 20 year old motorhome  😉

  • Bicycle helmets

    Volvo gives away bicycle helmets for free. What they are doing is like saying ; “our cars are safe and cycling is dangerous“. It’s like the producers of the Javelin Anti-Armour Missile would give away bullit-proof vests for children. I hope more and more cyclists will recognize the REAL message that Volvo is sending to…

  • Goofy

    I own a car as well as a velomobile and the effect of a “wheeler” is happening in both……. I can understand why “Mister Walkers” don’t like “Mister Wheelers”, because I’m a “Mister Walker” too. I experience this “schizophrenic” alteration every day when I use my velomobile. Maybe the difference between “Mister Cyclist” and “Mister…

  • citroën

    In weather like this, when it’s raining and storming outside, I decided not to scrap our 14 year old Citroën AX, but to repair some minor problems. There was a hole in the exhaust-pipe. Sounded very sportive when Marjan drove through the city, but actually it was just a hole in the exhaust-pipe ! Needed…

  • STOP ….texting and driving !

  • new glow plugs

    It turned out that only one glow plug was working in the diesel-engine of our motor-home. On the photo you can see how we tested the plugs. I renewed all four of them. With the new ones the engine is starting without any problems again  😉 Also the V-belts are renewed; so the terrible noise…

  • sometimes …

    a man has got to do what a man don’t want to do ! recognize the situation ? and smell the odour ?

  • renault

    Our camper had to pass a safety-check (APK) and luckily it passed the check, so we can use it one more year ! At the garage I saw an old Renault, waiting to be restored. I made a photo with my mobile-phone … renault, originally uploaded by wim harwig.

  • how to cross the road

    in Hyderabad, India !

  • couchsurfers

    Two German girls, Kim and Tina,  were travelling by car through Northern Europa. They spent one day at our home. The system of couchsurfing is getting better and better. Especially now in the near future the financial crises will become harder to tackle, initiatives like CS will be part of the “travellers”-solution. couchsurfers, originally uploaded…