Back to Amsterdam for a meeting of the jury of the ISOC Awards: http://www.isoc.nl/awards/. I’m a jury-member for the ‘Internet & the arts’-award. Nominees are:

Jan Robert Leegte: http://works.leegte.org
Joes Koppers: http://usemedia.com
Wilfried Houjebek: http://socialfiction.org/palimpsest
Peter Luining: http://ctrlaltdel.org
Niels Schrader: http://www.nielsschrader.de
Danielle Roberts: http://www.numuseum.nl

On friday I’ll fly to Dublin for a short visit. I’ll be offline for a few days then.

Ochtendrondje, 9.15 - 10.40. Een lekker zonnetje, fikse zuidenwind (draaiend). Kanne - Eben - Halembaye - Haccourt - Rue Riga (mooi stukje) - bij grote weg rechts en bijna meteen schuin oversteken omhoog - Froidmont - Houtain St. Simeon - Bassenge - Wonck - Moulin Broukay - St. Pierre - Kanne

Eindelijk zeggen de weersvoorspellingen: droog en zon en wolken. 17 graden, lekker fietsweer ondanks fikse westenwind. 15.00 - 19.30. Rondje Mergelland — leuk, de Limburgse klimmetjes, maar ik ben toch echt veel meer verslingerd geraakt aan het land van Herve, het Luikse, de Hesbaye en de Voerstreek. En echt, de Dode Man en de Keutenberg zijn ‘peanuts’ vergeleken bij de Houtepenklims. (Alleen die Eyserbosweg, daar kom ik dit jaar niet lekker tegenop). Vlak voor de Geulhemmerberg komt een clubje van “Math Salden, Limbricht” voorbij, ik wilde in het dal blijven, zij gaan bergop, om het hardst & ik dus ook. Kijken waar ik sta. Ik kom als vierde (van 10) boven.

Kanne - Lanaye - Lixhe - Moelingen - Mesch - Moerslag - Libeek - Mheer - Noorbeek - Vroelen - De Plank - Teuven - Gieveld - Eperheide - Epen - Mechelen - Partij - Wijlre - Eys - Eyserbosweg - Wijlre - Stokhem - Dode Man - Keutenberg af - Schin op Geul - Walemmerberg - Walem - Klimmen - Valkenburg - Hellebeuk - Hulsberg - Arensgenberg - Valkenburg - Sibbengrubbe - Daalhemmerweg - Valkenburg - Bosstraat - Schimmert - Klein Haasdal - Raarberg - Houthem - Geulhemmerberg - Berg - Maastricht - Muizenberg - Kanne

Cycling4all has scans online from the faxes that doctor Fuentes sent. I must say that seeing this evidence changes my perception of the case. Until now I’d be stressing the fact that persons are accused, found guilty and put outside the race before getting a chance to begin a proper juridical case. (Of course the whole affair still is a terrible mess legally seen).

I wonder what will happen with cycling — and with other sports (Fuentes had soccer-players and track-athletes as clients as well!). But I will enjoy the races just as much as ever. There will always be doping, the Fuentes-case is all part of the story of cycling & I love to follow that story. I’d wish it was less dirty, but I still enjoy the race.

I enjoy the race when my favorite wins. I also enjoy the race when my favorite does not win.

http://www.cycling4all.com/index.php?content=d_news13z.php.

That too much side-tracking. I’ll be off the field. Skimming trough & beginning to read Sincerity and Authenticy I conclude that this summary, taken from an anonymous review at Amazon, is all I need to know now: “Trilling draws a fine but deep distinction between two conceptions of selfhood. Sincerity, or being true to yourself with an eye to being true to others, was the dominant concern of Renaissance and early modern thought and literature, from Shakespeare to Rousseau. Beginning with Wordsworth, gaining momentum throughout the 19th century, and finally emerging with full force in the 20th, though, there is a new, more morally demanding ideal of being what or who one is, apart from all external conditions.” Just now I’m no so interested in reading an essay about Rousseau and Moliere, touching on Hegel too.

Weersverwachting: zware buien met kans op hagel en forse windstoten; tussendoor felle opklaringen. Ik word wakker als de zon schijnt (8.30). Ik ontbijt in de zon — wel binnen want warm is het niet (15 graden). Ik rij door de zon naar de Jan van Eyck. Ik werk tot kwart over vier. Al die tijd regent het niet, niet een keer. Om vijf uur zit ik op de fiets voor een rondje. Plan: wat klimmetjes rond Valkenburg. (Ik schat dat er in het zuiden meer kans is op een bui). Op het plateau van Margraten schijnt de zon en zie ik achter me een enorme bui boven Maastricht hangen. Bovenop de Keutenberg zie ik dat het achter Schin op Geul zwart ziet, en ik daal dan ook niet terug het dal in. Zo wordt het een ritje over het plateau. De bui blijft me achtervolgen, maar meer dan wat sputters voel ik niet — pas een kwartier na thuiskomt regent het, maar niet langer dan een minuut of tien.

Kanne - Lanaye - Lixhe - Eijsden - St. Geertruid - Eckelrade - Cadier en Keer - St. Anthoniusbank - Wolfshuis - Sibbe - IJzeren - Scheulder - Ingber - Gulpen - Wijlre - Etenaken - Schoonbron - Schin op Geul - Keutenberg - Ingber - Scheulder - IJzeren - Sibbe - Bemelen - Maastricht - Kanne

Trilling’s books are not in the library, and not at google.books. But there’s someone who’s gone through the effort of making a part available: http://www.noteaccess.com/Texts/Trilling/index.htm. Much obliged.

Very nice blog: http://www.waggish.org/. Mentions all my favorite writers :-)

Yesterday I took part in the first discussion of the Reading Department: http://www.reading.department.cc/. Using Skype for a collective chat — reading through Agamben’s text We Refugees. I had to log off at 21.30, at a moment when some interesting issues where coming up — a beginning of a critique of Agamben.

Well, that is what I am interested in, a critique of Agamben. (His texts are beautiful anyway). In order to to entangle both the fascination and the sense of unease with Agambens way of reasoning and doing philosophy. Or trying to do that. Something — I ‘feel’ — is not ‘right’ with Agamben, yet his analysis seems to be very precise and thorough, and to the point.

Taking up Dewey: maybe the problem lies in that Agamben, does use examples from experience, uses practical, political situations, but in the end relegates everything to the realm of ideas and ideals — and leaves it there. A realm of “Anschauung”… the spectator view of knowledge…

But I have to add a big question mark here.

– Then I stumble on this, in the statement of the Reading Department: “Can theory compete with an ongoing war? And what kind of implications bears the “distance of theory”?”

Is that the problem? Theory is not distant, should not be distant. Theory comes from and applies to the world of experience. Of course there are different layers of involvement, entanglement — but the realm of ideas and concepts is not seperate from dirty life. Distance is not the same as separation, but at some point distance becomes separation in practice.

Anyway. Maybe my conclusions are too eeeazy.

And then I also read Reconstruction in Philosophy of John Dewey. It’s a collection of lectures, given in Tokyo, in 1920, shortly after the First World War. I picked it up because it was the only Dewey-book in the Jan van Eyck-library. It might not be among Dewey’s main works, but I found it extremely inspiring and clear and accessible — in fact it is a perfect introduction into philosophy from the standpoint of pragmatism. Well, I’d say it’s the best introduction to philosophy I ever read. Wish I’d read this when I was 18.

Dewey outlines very clearly how the divide between theoretical knowledge and practical knowledge came about; what is wrong with the philosophical antitheses of reason and experience, ideal and real. What is wrong with the spectator view of knowledge; what is the importance of the scientific method. What is wrong with the divisions like art/imagination/aesthetics on the one hand and science/practical knowledge on the other. Et cetera.

Of course there are problems as well with Dewey’s approach, and a few times he seems to come close to a sort of optimistic view of life that reminds one a bit of self-help books. But that seems to be the price to pay when philosophy is reconstructed from practical life…

“If this lecture succeeds in leaving in your mind as a reasonable hypothesis the idea that philosophy originated not out of intellectual material, but out of social and emotional material, it will also succeed in leaving with you a changed attitude toward traditional philosophies.” p. 25

Then Dewey goes on to describe Bacon’s scientific method and its importance for changing philosophy and the concept of knowledge: away from relying on tradition; involvement with the processes of life. Actually the reconstruction in philosophy that Dewey is after is “the endeavor to undo the entanglement [-- that philosophy is caught in, due to the impossible combination of Baconian method and older traditions --] and to permit the Baconian aspirations to come to a free and unhindered expression.” p. 52

“True method, that which Bacon would usher in, is comparable to the operation of the bee who, like the ant, collects material from the external world, but unlike that industrious creature attacks and modifies the collected stuff in order to make it yield its hidden treasure.” p. 32

(Pragmatism is not common sense philosophy, on the contrary).

“Men who are thrown back upon “common sense” when they appeal to philosophy for some general guidance are likely to fall back on routine, the force of some personality, strong leadership or on the pressure of momentary circumstances.” p. 100

“In fact, the whole conception of knowledge as beholding and noting is fundamentally an idea connected with esthetic enjoyment and appreciation where the environment is beautiful and life is serene, and with esthetic repulsion and depreciation where life id troubled, nature morose and hard.” p. 115-116

“When the belief that knowledge is active and operative takes hold of men, the ideal realm is no longer something aloof and separate; it is rather the collective of imagined possibilities that stimultates men to new efforts and realizations.” p. 118

“If knowing were habitually conceived of as an active and operative, after the analogy of experiment guided by hypothesis, or of invention guided by imagination of some possibility, it is not too much to say that the first effect would be to emancipate philosophy from all the epistemological puzzles which now perplex it.” p. 123 (This is 1920, so way before Popper, Feyerabend, Lakatos).

“[T]hinking takes it departure from specific conflicts in experience that occasion perplexity and trouble.” p. 138

“They [theories] are tools. As in the case of all tools, their value resides not in themselves but in their capacity to work shown in the consequences of their use.” p. 145

“If ideas, meanings, conceptions, notions, theories, systems are instrumental to an active reorganization of the given environment, to a removal of some specific trouble and perplexity, then the test of their validity and value lies in accomplishing this work. If they succeed in their office, they are reliable, sound, valid, good, true. If they fail to clear up confusion, to eliminate defects, if they increase confusion, uncertainty and evil when they are acted upon, then they are false, Confirmation, corrobation, verification lie in works, consequences.” p. 156

“Now it is true that social arrangements, laws, institutions are made for man, rather than that man is made for them; that they are means and agencies of human welfare and progress. But they are not means for obtaining something for individuals, not even happiness. They are means of creating individuals.” p. 194

“Society is the process of associating in such ways that experiences, ideas, emotions, values are transmitted and made common.” p. 207

Acoording to Dewey society is always ‘in the making’, it moves, it consists of communication of experience between individuals, hence both the individual and the organization (’State’) are subordinate to this active process.

“[O]rganization is never an end in itself. It is a means of promoting association, of multiplying effective points of contact between persons, directing their intercourses into the modes of greatest fruitfulness.” p. 206-207.

All quotes from John Dewey, Reconstruction in Philosophy, Enlarged Edition, Beacon Press, Boston, 1948 (1920).

“I used formerly, (he added,) when sleepless in bed, to read like a Turk.”

That might be Dr. Johnsons most famous quote…

Earlier in Boswell’s Life of Johnson we learn that Johnson read a lot, read fast, read without any system, read anything that took his fancy, and considered this the best way to acquire knowledge. Also he considered reading books a better way to learn than listening to lectures. In this sense Johnson is the perfect example of a ‘new world’ of learning & acquiring knowledge.

“[W]e may be absolutely certain, both from his writings and his conversation, that his reading was very extensive. Dr. Adam Smith, than whom few were better judges on this subject, once observed to me that ‘Johnson knew more books than any man alive.’ He had a peculiar facility in seizing at once what was valuable in any book, without submitting to the labour of perusing it from beginning to end. He had, from the irritability of his constitution, at all times, an impatience and hurry when he either read or wrote.”

“Mr. Elphinston talked of a new book that was much admired, and asked Dr. Johnson if he had read it. JOHNSON. ‘I have looked into it.’ ‘What, (said Elphinston,) have you not read it through?’ Johnson, offended at being thus pressed, and so obliged to own his cursory mode of reading, answered tartly, ‘No, Sir, do YOU read books THROUGH?’”

“A book may be good for nothing; or there may be only one thing in it worth knowing; are we to read it all through?”

“He then took occasion to enlarge on the advantages of reading, and combated the idle superficial notion, that knowledge enough may be acquired in conversation. ‘The foundation (said he,) must be laid by reading. General principles must be had from books, which, however, must be brought to the test of real life. In conversation you never get a system. What is said upon a subject is to be gathered from a hundred people. The parts of a truth, which a man gets thus, are at such a distance from each other that he never attains to a full view.’”

“‘Idleness is a disease which must be combated; but I would not advise a rigid adherence to a particular plan of study. I myself have never persisted in any plan for two days together. A man ought to read just as inclination leads him; for what he reads as a task will do him little good. A young man should read five hours in a day, and so may acquire a great deal of knowledge.’”

Add to this that Johnson wrote for money, wrote extremely fast, often did not edit, rewrite, yes, often did not reread what he wrote and published.

“He told us, ‘almost all his Ramblers were written just as they were wanted for the press; that he sent a certain portion of the copy of an essay, and wrote the remainder, while the former part of it was printing. When it was wanted, and he had fairly sat down to it, he was sure it would be done.’”

“When a man writes from his own mind, he writes very rapidly. The greatest part of a writer’s time is spent in reading, in order to write: a man will turn over half a library to make one book.’”

All quotes from James Boswell, The Life of Johnson, 1791, electronic version: http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/1564.

(I read this edition: … edited & abridged by Christopher Hibbert, Penguin English Library, Harmondsworth, 1979).

In issue 74 of The Idler he defends enjoying the flow of reading, and argues against marking passages or copying fragments in notebooks:

“It is the practice of many readers to note, in the margin of their books, the most important passages, the strongest arguments, or the brightest sentiments. Thus they load their minds with superfluous attention, repress the vehemence of curiosity by useless deliberation, and by frequent interruption break the current of narration or the chain of reason, and at last close the volume, and forget the passages and marks together.”

see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Idler

I’ve been reading too. And making notes. All of that didn’t make it into the blog.

Spending two days in Brussels at Acting Out Technology (http://www.actingouttechnology.be) was very much worth while.

On the first day I delivered a long sort of improvised talk on 1. Latourian Dingpolitik, ANT, Latours definition of a network, and 2. Web 2.0-stuff. For me it functioned (also) as an explanation of the connection between both. A first public attempt at it. It often feels as if I just happen to think about/reseach online collaboration & sharing & publication issues, and am reading Latour at the same time. But both strands inform each other. I hope to be able to ‘pull them together’ in a text too….

The second day it was to art-historian Eric de Bruyn & his talk on the network in the history of art — from roughly Stan VanderBeek and the Eames IBM-pavilion, via Conceptual Art toward Radical Software. (I love all that). Thomas Zummer — also present — came up good issues & explanations & ideas during discussion with the workshop participants. & some of the proposals of the participants were very, very promising. Inspiring.

I read Diderot’s Jacques le fataliste in the new Dutch translation. Further exploring the world 18th century publishing. Also took a look at Tobias Smolett’s (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tobias_Smollett) The Expedition of Humphry Clinker, and some more Samuel Johnson. Just the fun stuff at the side — but what I learn from it spills over into other areas of interest. Early 18th century being, of course, interesting for its changes in the publishing industry, copyright, writers living from what they write for money etc.

And then I picked up Peter Rawlings American Theorists of the Novel, James, Trilling, Booth, from the series Routlede Critical Thinkers (http://www.routledge.com/). (Just because it was a recent acquisition of the library). It’s not a very inspiring book, and I wonder why we (or students of literature) would need a guide to James, Trilling and Booth. Whatever you have against Gerard Genette and narratology, the theories from that field go beyond James and Booth if you ask me. Maybe not when you focus on ‘morality’ — a big issue for James, Trilling and Booth, But when it comes to literature & morality, one better picks up Rorty or Nussbaum (and no, I do not particularly like their approaches to literature).

Of course James’ introductions to his novels are monuments. Certainly Trilling wrote inspiring essays (I did not read anything of Trilling). Booth’ Rhetoric of Fiction is a classic — euh, already considered outdated when I studied Literary Theory end of the eighties.

So why did I read this ‘guide’?

1. In contemporary literature (also in the Netherlands) James — and his theories of storytelling — keep popping up. It is as if he is the grand master to whom one has to turn to really learn what it means to write a novel. I want to understand better: why James…? Of course James is great (though I have severe problems enjoying his writing). But he doesn’t particularly strike me as a ‘model’ for contemporary literature. Am I wrong?

2. I’m interested in AmLit. I do like to read the American essayist Leslie Fiedler for instance. I’ve never read anything of Trilling.

And what did I get?

1. A short recap of Jamesian + Boothian theory. Always handy. Also a reconfirmation that I rather turn to Genette, early Barthes, Russian formalism & structuralism or Bachtin for insights.

2. An idea of Trillings position — he is conservative in his thinking about the art of the novel, and progressive in terms of its transforming power. For me the useful eye-opener is Trillings opposition of ’sincerity’ and authenticity’: ’sincerity’ as connected to rhetoric, appearance, 18th century literature, persona’s; and ‘authenticity’ as the twentieth century idea of a true inner self (Freud being important for Trilling). Trilling would like literature to be about the discovering of this authenticy — against the ‘unreal sincerity’. (Well, this is from a summary of Trilling, I have not yet read his Sincerity and Authenticity).

In this way my reading of Jacques le Fataliste, and exploration of rhetorics (with its idea of the ‘ethos’ of the speaker), connects nicely with reading through a not so inspiring guide on American theories of the novel…

Begin van de middag terug uit Amsterdam. Zware buien. Ook in Kanne. Als de zon er weer doorkomt stap ik op de fiets. Het blijft droog, de zon blijft schijnen. Klimmetjes zoeken rond Jupille. De Trixhes (wat een lastige rothelling), de Rue Fonds du Chat (smal), de Rue General Leclercq (niet zo moeilijk). Het blijft een mooi gebied — ondanks alle typisch Belgische bebouwing — vol zware klims. Dan rij ik richting Chaudfontaine naar de Vesdre, door het bos. Hoe is het mogelijk dat ik nu pas dat prachtige stukje ontdek? Omdat ik altijd naar Vaux ss Chevremont daalde? 16.00 - 20.00.

Kanne - kanaal - Hermalle ss Argenteau - Cheratte - Wandre - Rue Colline / Rue Montagnard / Cote de la Xhavee - Jupille - Trixhes - Jupille - Rue Fonds du Chat - Rue de Beyne - Rue General Leclerq - Beyne - Chaudfontaine - Foret - St. Hadelin - Micheroux - Retinne - Saive - Cheratte - Sarolay - Hermalle ss. Argenteau - kanaal - Kanne

(Opnieuw weet ik niet of ik de route goed heb ingetekend; waar ligt die Rue Fonds du Chat; hoe reed ik nou precies bij Micheroux; en onmogelijk om op deze schaal te tonen dat ik heen over de grote weg naar Hermalle reed, en terug via het fietspad langs de Maas).

Opnieuw vroeg op. Nu geen zon, wel weer matige weersvoorspellingen — maar mijn fiets is toch smerig. 8.30 - 10.30. Nu denk ik bij Mesch zelfs droog thuis te komen als het alsnog plots gaat hozen. De zware bui duurt tien minuten en hoewelik even schuil word ik toch drijfnat, en zie af van een extra ommetje via Eijsden. Kanne - kanaal - Visee - Alle du Hennen - Mons - Bombaye - Warsage - Neufchateau - Les Waides - La Heydt - Warsage - Gravensvoeren - (+ klimmetje) - Mesch - Withuis - Moelingen - Lixhe - Lanaye - Kanne

Vroeg op voor een rondje. F. slaapt nog. De zon schijnt, de weersvoorspellingen zijn slecht. 8.00 - 10.15. Tot La Heydt is het volledig droog, dan wat sputters, het laatste half uur zeikt het. Toch rij ik nog wat kleine doodlopende weggetjes in bij ’s Gravensvoeren. Kanne - kanaal - Vise - Allee du Hennen - Mons - Bombaye - Warsage - La Heydt - Rullen - St. Pietersvoeren - St. Martensvoeren - Gravensvoeren (+ Altenbroek, Koetsweg) - Moelingen - Lixhe - Lanaye - Kanne

Ochtendritje. Vanmiddag komt F. Bewolkt, redelijk fris, lekker fietsweer, zware benen. Flinke zuidenwind. Kanne - Eben - Moulin de Broukay - Wonck - Zichen - Val-Meer - Bassenge - Boirs - Glons - linksaf klim + rechtsaf in klim - Slins - Hermee - Oupeye - kanaal - Loen (fabriek) - kanaal oversteken - Kanne

Eerst Dewey lezen, dan fietsen. In de ochtend flink wat regen, later ook opklaringen, om 15.00 op de fiets, en een groot deel in de zon gereden, drie kleine buien, redelijk fris, heerlijk fietsweer. Fikse zuidenwind. Een perfecte dag om wat Houtepenklims te doen. Echt vermaak voor de zondag — wanneer de Luikse wegen heel rustig zijn. (De gemiddelde snelheid kruipt wel naar onder de 20, ook door al het zoeken, en op de terugweg ging de Veille Voie niet echt makkelijk meer). Het is inderdaad een prachtig gebied… soms hetzelfde stukje heen en weer gereden. Rue Melard, Cote de Bois des Dames (toch? de klim naar links), Rue Tesny, Rue Bois Sauvage (na Rue Marchon — loopt dood), Bellaire / Fleron, Rue Heids de Chene (nu met spiksplinternieuw asfalt, maar niks makkelijker, Angliru-herinneringen), Rue Haute Folie, Veille Voie Bellaire, langzame klim vanuit Jupille door het bos, Veille Voie (Cheratte), Wihxou — heel klein paadje, met bord ‘doodlopende weg’, naast de friterie (tot nu toe over het hoofd gezien…). De route zit vol heen en weer, doodlopende wegen inrijden en ik heb geen idee of ik de route juist heb ingetekend. Maar het was genieten. (En zo’n zestal ‘echte’ Houtepenklims op 1 tocht is echt genoeg, voor mijn benen dan…)

Kanne - kanaal - Maas - Hermalle ss Argenteau - Cheratte - Voie Melard (verboden in te rijden, eigenlijk een soort voetgangerspad naar boven) - Cheratte - Veille Voie af - Wandre - Cote de Bois de Dames (linksom omhoog en ook weer afdalen) - Rue Tesny (schitterend) - Jupille - beetje links aanhouden, wandelgebied in - Rue Marchon (na wat zoeken, volg de groene B+pijl — mountainbikeroute, de Rue Marchon loopt dood, maar heet uitzicht is prachtig), omkeren, nu de rue Bois Sauvage in, bij splitsing rechtdoor (linksaf loopt dood) - door het rommelige bos afdalen, v.v. omhoog en weer afdalen - klim naar Bellaire - Fleron - afdalen richting Jupille - linksaf Rue Heids de Chene - Fleron - afdaling naar Vaux ss Chevremont - even rechts naar Beyne en via L38 fietsroute (hier verhard) weer terug - Vaux ss Chevremont - Rue Haute Folie - abdij Chevremont - Rue des Gottes - Magnee - Fleron (op een of andere manier achterlangs via fietspad) - afdalen ri. Jupille - rechtsaf Rue Veille Voie Bellaire (steil maar makkelijk) - Jupille - klim naar Wandre - Bois les Dames - Cheratte - Veille Voie - Sarolay - Argenteau - Whixhou - Argenteau - Vise - kanaal - Kanne

Eerst Dewey lezen (Reconstruction in Philosophy — prachtig & glashelder), dan fietsen. Schitterend zomerweer, eerst erg warm (27 graden?) en zonnig, later veel bewolking en hier en daar een zeer lokale bui — je zou er in 2 minuten doorheen rijden, zo lokaal. Ik voel slechts een paar sputters. 13.00 - 20.00. Raar rondje, ik was helemaal niet van plan om lang door het bos te rijden, maar deed het toch. Ditmaal over Henri-Chapelle gereden, waar een familiefietstocht gaande was en honderden mensen in oranje T-shirts zich vanuit Verviers naar boven hesen, dan via Welkenraedt en tja, dan zit je dicht bij Eupen…

Kanne - Lanaye - Moelingen - Gravensvoeren - fietspad achterlangs - Schophem - St. Martensvoeren - St. Pietersvoeren - Veursbos - Aubel - Henri-Chapelle - Welkenraedt - Membach (via de fietsknooppunten, erg slechte en modderige weg, maar je komt er wel onder de snelweg en TGV mee door (de weg over Baelen is nog altijd afgesloten) - Eupen - stuwmeer - dan, meest de knooppunten volgens om het meer en vervolgens dwars door het Hertogenwoud om uiteindelijk in Goe uit te komen - Goe - Hevremont - Limbourg - Clermont - Froidthier - Val Dieu - Mortroux - Warsage - Gravensvoeren - Mesch - Oost-Maarland - Maastrich - (euh, ik had de boodschappen op de Jan van Eyck laten staan, en vervolgens met groenten, worst en eieren onder in mn trui als pakezel naar huis) - Kanne.

Veel wind, zuidelijk. Felle zon en wolken. Redelijk warm (23 graden). Vreemd weer. Eerst werken dan fietsen, en daar tussenin eindelijk weer ‘ns een uurtje lekker in de zon lezen. Kanne - Lanaye - Moelingen - Gravensvoeren - Martensvoeren - St. Pietersvoeren - Aubel - Froidthier - Les Trixhes - Val Dieu - Mortroux - Dalhem - Vise - kanaal - Kanne

Eerst werken, dan fietsen. 16.30 - 20.30. Laten we zeggen: een toeristisch rondje — wat wil zeggen dat ik hier en daar op goed geluk een weggetje in sla, geen doel heb, geen route plan, en ook nog foto’s maak. Het is verrassend warm (25 graden?), eerst zonnig, later bewolkt.

Kanne - kanaal - Visé - Lorette - Dalhem - Mortroux - Val Dieu + RA klimmetje (net voor Val Dieu, loopt dood) - Rossenfosse - ri., Charneux - Battice (via een klim die ik niet kende) - La Minerie - Thimister - Clermont - Froidthier - La Bushaye - Aubel - St. Pietersvoeren - Martensvoeren - Gravensvoeren - Moelingen - Lixhe - Lanaye - Kanne