About this blog
This is my personal blog which I started in 2003. At first it was called Communigations, a variation on Communicative Investigations. The blog transformed itself more into a personal investigation than being a blog on communication and therefore needed a new name.As a fencer, the name of this blog reflects how I write my thoughts into coherent stories, fence them off from all the sidepaths and rapidly go back and forth, covering various topics that interest me.
Read more about me or about my work at elminewijnia.eu
Tag Archives: snow
We’re running out of salt (48)
We, the Dutch, almost forgot about winter.
With so few cold winters and little snow in the recent past, local governments shortened their stack of salt for the roads over the years. But now, because of the continuing snowfall, they are confronted with shortage of salt to keep the roads clear from snow and ice. [...]
Snow in the UK (45)
(about the number in the title)
Snow and infrastructure don’t match
Trein Chaos 17 December 2009 from Elmine Wijnia on Vimeo.
Due to snowfall and several incidents, train travel to and from Utrecht CS (central NL) was a challenge. I took a detour via Arnhem, to get back to Enschede (east NL), the same train my colleague Simon took to go to Nijmegen (south NL).
Surprisingly enough I [...]
A bit of Sunday play. (49)