We had actually booked at the first hotel as the last time however we ended up in another hotel, which was even 10 times better! Why? Well, at the first hotel (The Loca Blue Lagon) they mixed up our hotel room and gave us a shitty room. A room which was 10 minutes a way from the main pool, bar, restaurant etc.. That’s not the worst part.. They offered us a room with 2 single beds! Yeah.. exactly on our honeymoon!  After complaining we were transfered (almost immediately) to the Palazzo Del Mare hotel which is even more luxurious then the first one! From then on we could enjoy our honeymoon perfectly!

Click here to go to the gallery and view the pictures or click on the picture above!!

It was really a beautiful day and fortunately we’ve a lot of pictures (1100+!) of our wedding just to remember the day! I have made a selection and you can view them in the gallery by clicking here or clicking on the picture here below!

Enjoy watching them!

Anyway, in the meanwhile I had some time to update the gallery page! A lot of people and friends didn’t liked the way the gallery worked and asked me if I could change it… I actually hadn’t thought well about this so I had to look into it. The problem was that I used the build-in gallery option in Wordpress and linked/opened the picture in the attachment page. By doing the whole site needed to be reloaded over and over again which is actually pretty annoying and slow, right? So I had to look for another option.

A picture of Jannie and me on our holiday in El Gouna (Egypt).

After giving it some thoughts and playing around with a dozen of plugins, I actually found the perfect solution: Slimbox!
Slimbox is a visual clone of the popular Lightbox 2 script and to be honest.. this wasn’t actually what I was thinking about when I started but I really like this plugin! It works really simple (download, install and you’re good to go!) and it’s really fast.

Now you are able to view and navigate between the pictures in the gallery very quickly! Give it a try and let me know what you think!

Anyway, for some times we wanted to explore the Southern part of The Netherlands, Valkenburg and Vaals to be exactly. The Southern part of The Netherlands is really beautiful because of it’s landscapes and off course because of the history! Luckily for us, both cities aren’t that far from our house.

When we arrived in Valkenburg we went to the Chairlift which will take take you to the 90 meters higher! While sitting in the chairlift, you’ll get this view:

As you can see the view is pretty awesome! When you’re at the top of the “hill”, you can eat and drink at a cosy restaurant.
Beside the chairlift there’s also a toboggan slide, which is always fun to do, right? With the toboggan slides with has a length of 325 and 375 meters you can slide down the hill.

After walking around in Valkenburg, we moved to our next point; Vaals. Like Valkenburg, Vaals is also a very unique place. It borders on both Belgium and Germany. The two borders meet on the Drielandenpunt, which is also a few hundred meters from the highest point of the Netherlands (300 somewhat meter higher), the Vaalserberg.

Going to  Drielandenpunten was very easy, but going to the city was a bit harder. Why? Because almost ALL the roads were closed because of  a bicycle race! Any that couldn’t spoil our day..
After exploring the town (after a long way of looking for a way to go to the center of Vaals) having a very delicious Italian ice cream, walking to Germany.. It was “time” to head back home.

Next weekend is going to be a “long” weekend as we’re closed at the office on Monday, so we’re looking for a nice town which we can explore again.. Any ideas?

For more pictures, click here!

From left to right: Kasra, Carmen, Jannie and me

They arrived Friday at the airport and off course we picked them up. So after we got home from the airport, drinking something and making sure that Kasra and Carmen could “recover” for a while from their long trip , Jannie and me decided to give them a tour through our favorite city Eindhoven;  As this was their first visit to The Netherlands. The day went by pretty fast and we all had a great time together.

The next day we went to the market, showed them where we’re going to get married, the party place and more. We ended the day at our house with drinking something (Yeah, Kasra and me just love Smirnoff!) and catching up.

On Sunday they saw Amsterdam and later that day we went to this 3D movie called: “My Bloody Valentine”, which was an awesome movie! I really enjoyed watching it, unfortunately Carmen didn’t like the movie that much.. (Sorry Carmen! )

Unfortunately the weekend was too short and went by extremely fast, even faster as usual, and Kasra and Carmen had to go back to Italy on Monday. Yeah, time flies when you’re having fun, right?!
Anyway, it was really nice to see them again and we really enjoyed their stay! If only weekends were a bit longer!

You can find some more pictures in the Gallery: A Small Alborz Reunion Pictures.

]]> http://www.bioteck.net/2009/05/08/a-small-alborz-reunion/feed/ 5 http://www.bioteck.net/2008/09/14/the-importance-of-having-backups/ http://www.bioteck.net/2008/09/14/the-importance-of-having-backups/#comments Sun, 14 Sep 2008 07:37:45 +0000 BioTecK http://www.bioteck.net/?p=2381 Making backups of your documents, photo’s etc is really important, but how often do you create a backup? Every week, month or year?? Or just whenever you start thinking about it? Well, I try to make backup as often as possible but I didn’t make one in the last month so yesterday something “bad” happened.

I don’t know how it happened but somehow all my images which had a total size of 7GB and all my video’s (No dvd’s, but video’s taken with my phone, Jannie’s phone, our camera etc..) with a total size of a couple of GB’s were all GONE! Don’t ask me how it happened, cause I really don’t know!
I think that I have might deleted them by accident, but usually I’m too careful with things like this.

The same thing happened to me some years ago, but it wasn’t as bad as this time. Back then all of my MP3 collection were gone but I was able to download them again or get them from friends. When looking back it was my fault, I had formated the drive with all the MP3’s on it!

But now… I can’t download the photo’s or get them from friends… All I have is a backup of my images from 6 months ago, the pictures in my gallery (which have been resized!) and no backup of my video’s! This is really a shitty situation and I’m really pissed about this!

Like I said I have a 6 months old backup, so I still have those. Right now I’m trying to get the pictures and video’s back with a recovery software. Let’s hope that I can get the pictures which have been taken in the last 6 months! Pictures like our holiday to El Gouna, Metallica concert on Pinkpop and some more stuff!

Let this be a lesson for you too: If you don’t want to loose your important stuff, try to create backups as often as possible. For example once in a month or so!

So, Don’t forget to create a backup!

Anyway, I also told you that I would take my camera with me to make some pictures! Well, I had the pictures on my computer but I was forgotten to upload them to my gallery! So anyway, Here they’re are!