søndag, juli 20, 2014

Crazy? Guy did the Nijmegen Marches at sea – on a treadmill!

A mentally not well Dane treadmill-walking on board the
pirate-hunter HDMS Esbern Snare.
So what to do if you are sure to miss your 14th participation in the Four Day Marches in Nijmegen? Commander Thorbjørn Hein from Denmark was in this unfortunate situation. A naval staff officer, he is currently on board HDMS Esbern Snare in the Indian Ocean as part of NATO’s counter-piracy Operation Ocean Shield; he had to look at alternative ways to get his annual Nijmegen fix.

Read below to see what he did.


lørdag, juli 19, 2014

Nijmegen Treadmill 2014: Hein, der peger på OMI-mærket

Bum, så var det der, det seneste "Hein, der peger på OMI-mærket"-billede. Jeg sagde jo, jeg havde noget oppe i ærmet, John.


Tak for mærket, OMI, det kommer da rundt i verden!

Artiklen om selve marchen findes her (på engelsk).

onsdag, juli 09, 2014

Rosenborg Eksercerplads, 1920

Genforeningen med Sønderjylland i 1920 blev også markeret i København. Bl.a. ved to parader (for udenlandske kontingenter, som havde deltaget i genforeningen) på Rosenborg Eksercerplads.

tirsdag, juli 08, 2014

ONE WEEK till Vier Daagse, a.k.a. The Nijmegen Marches

Have a good one, all of you that going to the Netherlands. The march starts ONLY ONE WEEK from now. Your faithful blog editor says: lucky bastards.

/Thorbjørn