I could hear the fireworks in the streets around my parents home when I was speaking to my dad via Skype. It was 9pm, midnight was still far away. Time enough to think back of what happened in 2009. In Holland is New Years Eve a chaos, the whole evening is a continious spectacle of loud noises and lightning everywhere. You can find fires of christmas trees on every corner of the street and after midnight it takes a long time before silence returns.

The last years during Chistmas and New Years holiday I was focused on the Dutch National Championchips on the track and the Six Days of Rotterdam. This year my bike brings me somewhere else. Long training sessions through the hills, I fell in love with Serramazzoni, 18km up to a 800m height. When it is grey, foggy and cold everywhere, go to Serramazzoni, there the sun shines!! A perfect reward after hard work :-)

I wish everyone a great new year! Whatever you do, whatever your goal is: I wish it to be a success!!

Happy New Year!!