Nightingales in the dunes close to the beach at Wassenaar.
This is just a brief placeholder; I'll try to get some better nightingale audio in the next couple of weeks. There are many of them between Katwijk & Wassenaar, & I love hearing them every spring.
From today's rather lovely 77km ride up the Leidsevaart & back through the coastal dunes.
The muggy warmth in Western Europe yesterday was followed widespread storms this evening, bringing torrential rain & lots of lightning for much of our drive back from Heidelberg to Wassenaar ⛈️🙀
Particularly heavy in the Eifel between the Mosel & the Rhine: the whole of the A61 autobahn turned into a six-lane river at one point, which made things interesting 🚛🚗🚚😬✌️
And it’s beginning to get very grumbly here at home now ⚡️
I don't know how they knew setting this this to Ave Maria would be ten times funnier, but it is! [sound on, or watch once without sound and then turn on the sound, like I did]
Ever wondered what it sounds like when you close the door of a 11 metre wide, 9 metre deep, & 16.4 metre high concrete chamber?
Wonder no more – my Test Centre colleague, Jan Demming, demonstrates the ~20 second reverb time of the Large European Acoustic Facility at ESA's ESTEC today 🙉
Normally used to test satellites under the enormously loud conditions of launch, we were in the LEAF today for quite a different purpose 😉