diff --git a/content/blog/wk11day6.md b/content/blog/wk11day6.md index a25f96a..b991ef6 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk11day6.md +++ b/content/blog/wk11day6.md @@ -1,7 +1,89 @@ --- -title: "Week 11, Saturday:" +title: "Week 11, Saturday: Milano to Zurigo" date: 2024-10-12T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/drumandbass.png" alt="Credit: Drum and Bass, YouTube" >}} + +Today we complete our visit to beautiful Italy. For the last time (for the time being, at least) we +grab breakfast in the hotel in Milan. We take a look at weather, driving conditions, the traffic at +the Gottard tunnel, and debate if we'd like to visit any other sights in the city before heading +off. + +In the breakfast room, it's a bit of a mess. I don't quite understand what brings parents of small +children not to clean up after themselves. There's bread, fruit and detritis everywhere, and as well +a few stomping children. I'm so glad that we don't have to deal with that on an ongoing basis +anymore! Thanks, Quinn: you're a winner :) + +Our feet are tired and I think maybe all three of us would love to be at home. I myself would very +much like to sleep in my own bed for a while; my back is not happy with my choice of hotel bed. It's +super hard, like a wooden board with a 3cm piece of foam on it. It reminds me a bit of camping in +the Nordics, where all we had was a little roll-up matt. I'm not sure I would be a happy camper, +considering how much my back hates me right now. + +After breakfast, we grab our belongings upstairs, and I do a quick checkout. Marina has already +paid, even the city tax and parking, so I make my way downstairs to the garage. I'm quickly met by +the guy behind the counter, who insists on a very specific way for me to exit the garage. You see, +it's a somewhat ... narrow passage way in and out, and they are trying to make sure that I don't +damage our daily driver. Marina takes a picture as I poke the nose out of the garage into the +gangway up to street level. I can confirm: it was narrow!! + +The car ends up on the street without any damage (go, Pim!) and we start our ascent from Milano to +Zurigo. The drive over the _Autostrada_ towards Chiasso (the border crossing into Switzerland) is +line-rate. There's a bit of a delay while driving over the border crossing, but once again we aren't +pulled over and asked any questions, we are free to go. + +Then we drive towards the Gottard tunnel, and there's a bit of a delay getting in to it. I have +heard that the delay _can be_ up to three hours in the Summer, but for us, today, it's only about +twenty minutes or so. I drive us through the tunnel and find myself a parking spot to switch drivers +with Marina. Similar to when we went to the Netherlands (where MArina had this), I have a bit more +of a drive than I bargained for: 3.25hrs before we find a parking spot, which by now is only twenty +minutes from our supercharger in _Beckenried_. + +Here, we provide Tessa with electrons while we supply edibles for ourselves. Quinn munches on a +Caesar Salad, Marina takes a beef tartar, and I grab hummus with flatbread. Marina may have had some +buyers' remorse, as she demands halfsies. I am not dissatisfied by this, because I really like +tartare. We finish our late lunch, while Tessa finishes its electron slurp. + +Marina takes the rest of the drive home, and we arrive there at around 16:30 or so. Here, we pretty +quickly disperse, not too dissimilar to shrapnel. I go to the basement and take a bit of a training +run in the Flight Simulator. I spend about one hour practicing taxiing, takeoff, and circuits. My +goal is to reliably and consistently ace the exercises around take-off, circuits, navigation and +landing. Proudly, I show my awareness of the [[Dunning Kruger +effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect)], and take a picture of my +score in taking off at 500ft/min and 75kts in my dinky little Cessna 172S. + +By the way, Tim, you will like this: we bought the _Deluxe_ version, and somewhere tucked away in +that version, is a Cessna 172 Classic. Interestingly, the normal version only has the glass cockpit, +but the _Deluxe_ version has the old _Skyhawk_. So I also spent half an hour or so importing it and +making sure that the radio and navigation panel works for it. Score! + +For dinner, we decide to eat (dutch) French Fries and _Snacks_, which means: Frikandellen, Kip +Corns, Bitterballen and Kroketten. All of these things are such a classic guilty pleasure for us in +Switzerland. I know my dutch friends don't really appreciate it, but it's true: you don't know what +you have until it's gone! Our supply of frikandellen is severely limited in Switzerland! + +After dinner, we watch a few episodes of Black Mirror, and finally, I take the Cessna 172 Skyhawk +with navigation out for a spin. I found a MSFS Companion App, which displays a bunch of data and +importantly, the airplane's position on an (OpenS treet Maps) map. Unfortunately, there are no +airfield overlays (OSM does not do this, on principle), so I have to make due with 'normal' maps. +Maybe at some point I'll get that fancy Sky Demon that Tim uses, or some other tool. But for now, +I'm happy with the results. On the screenshot below, you can see which places I flew by hand (West +of lake Zurich, and around lake Pfäffikon), and where I played with the autopilot (the nice +straight lines). + +I'm pretty tired from all of that prancing around Milan, so at 22:00 or so I turn in for the night. +Marina is already in the bathroom getting ready as I rock up. It seems we're both quite tired from +all that traveling. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-12/20241012_103228.jpg" caption="I'm driving the car through a very narrow gangway up from the garage in our hotel. No damage!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-12/IMG_2069.JPG" caption="In the flight sim, I'm taking lessons. This one exercise I've scored an outlier-positive 9.9/10, but generally I try to practice such that I have consistent A scores." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-12/IMG_2070.JPG" caption="In this episode of Black Mirror, a woman loses her loved one, but technology manages to bring him back as a humanoid robot. What could possibly go wrong?" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-12/IMG_2071.JPG" caption="The flight I flew in the Cessna 172 Skyhawk, playing around with the autopilot, taking off from Düendorf and landing on the same airfield." >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/20241012_103228.jpg b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/20241012_103228.jpg new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5d32a43 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/20241012_103228.jpg @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:d1712d0cdb5cef0ca1abfe14d25a7c7b358fec260cc771c99fe8e6f03d8750de +size 1115793 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/IMG_2069.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/IMG_2069.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..76d1e2a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-12/IMG_2069.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid 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