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I just did it....ordered the new Canon EOS 7D together with the Canon EF-S 18-135 IS.
The lens will be sold immediately, aswell as my "old" camera the EOS 40D.

also ordered a battery-grip, a spare battery and a new 16GB UDMA flash card....

I am quite sure that I won't be making better photos with the new cam, still it's nice to have and offering some new possibilities.

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nothing to say, except that I was not feeling well the last couple of days....
and that in two months Christmas 2009 is already history.

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Today, (maybe) one of the best alpine skiers of the last 20-30 years announced his retirement.

Hermann Maier, 2 times Olympic champion, 3 times World Champion and 4 times Overall Word-Cup winner called for a press conference in Vienna today and announced that he's not going to start in the 2009/10 world-cup and will also not take part in the Olympic Games in Vancouver 2010.

Even if your not into sports, or alpine skiing in particular, I am sure that almost everybody knows this crazy Austrian guy, who crashed really hard on the downhill race in the 1998 Nagano Olympics and then still won two Gold medals in the following races.

It was really fun watching him race, it was even more impressive to see him come-back after a horrible motorbike crash in 2001, and it was a great experience to get to know him in St. Moritz in 2003.

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well, at least it wasn't completely unexpected...

from today on, there's 6 of us, Marit, Niklas, my wife Susanne, and myself, and Flauschi and Kuschel.
Flauschi and Kuschel are two Nederlandse Hangoor Dwergen (NHDs; mini dwarf rabbits) and are 9 weeks old.

as our kids were asking us for a couple of months now if they could have two pets and they "proved" that they are ready to take care of them, we decided to adopt these two little dwarfs.
thanks also to Tina Kunze (www.meine-zwergenfarm.com) who's breeding NHDs (and others) and was very helpful and forthcoming with the two.


Marit & Flauschi + Niklas & Kuschel

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all along the river danube....

last Saturday (July 11), 2 friends of mine and myself cycled from Passau (Germany) to Vienna.
It's a very popular tour among hobby cyclists, as it follows the river Danube all along the way, and there are quite a few places that are worth visiting along the route - like the Abbey of Melf, the Wachau Valley with Dürnstein, and of course Vienna.

Normally, riders take 4-5 days to get from Passau to Vienna, not only because they are visiting some sights along the river, but simply because most don't want to cycle more than 60-70km per day.

But as we are a bit crazy, we decided to do the ride in approx. 12hrs - just for the fun of it.

so here's the details:
Passau - Vienna: 321km
time in the saddle: 10h31min
time Passau > Vienna (incl. 2 breaks): 12h7min
avg. speed (net): 30.6km/h

tour details from my VDO Z3:


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