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I thought it was some political thing I'm still thinking about where to place Slovakia, there are two options

Wait, what did I screw up?

Don Vegni needs a vacation.

And Trump will because he's known to have no good connections with China and Russia at all?

Delegation location 4 - Elburg We travel a little to the north of Epe, where we find the small and historic city of Elburg. Home to a little over 23.000 people, with a whopping three Olympians originating here: Anne van Schuppen (athletics, 1996), Kira Bulten (swimming, 1992) and Dick Boschman (shooting, 2000 + 2004). Elburg is an old city: apart from ancient Roman finds around the area it was a part of the Hanseatic League in the Middle Ages. It's position at the sea made it an important trade and fishing harbour and Elburg greatly flourished in these times, as was for example shown by the fact they made some impressive defensive fortifications around the city. In the 20th century, the sea was closed off and with Elburg now being next to a lake instead of a sea, the fishing industry - while still existing - got way smaller, due to the changes in the types of fish that could be caught. Nowadays it's mostly tourism that keeps Elburg standing, although that's not necessarily a negative thing at all. When walking around in Elburg, one really can feel like going back to medieval times, large parts of the centuries old wall are still there, for example. A great attraction would be to go there around Christmas time to 'Winter in de Vesting' ('Winter in the Fortress'), and walk around in a cold, dark and happy little ancient town. It's just not big, but it's definitely worth it. No, it doesn't look that old, but this is the city centre with a street pattern laid out centuries ago - the church in the top left is the 14th century St Nicolas Church The Vischpoort ('Fish Gate'), the only remaining gate that was built into the defensive wall half a millenium ago Houses have been integrated into the city wall during the centuries Delegations in Elburg Czech Republic Hungary Romania

[hide] Week 2 - Stages 7-12 Stage Top 3 Riders Vitoria-Gasteiz - Villanueva de Valdegovia Stage 7 October, 27th 1st: Omar Fraile 2nd: Alex Aranburu 3rd: Jonathan Lastra Robert Power Tim Wellens Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz Remi Cavagna Guillaume Martin Nans Peters Dan Martin Jetse Bol Rui Costa Primoz Roglic Willie Smit Omar Fraile José Herrada Enric Mas Luis León Sánchez Alejandro Valverde Logroño - Alto de Moncalvillo Stage 8 October, 28th 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Rui Costa Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic Enric Mas Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss B.M. Cid Campeador. Castrillo del Val - Aguilar de Campoo Stage 9 October, 29th 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Jasper Philipsen Gerben Thijssen Magnus Cort Mihkel Raim Lorrenzo Manzin Emmanuel Morin Pascal Ackermann Max Kanter Sam Bennett Jakub Mareczko Matteo Moschetti Dion Smith Jon Aberasturi Castro Urdiales - Suances Stage 10 October, 30th 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Jasper Philipsen Gerben Thijssen Magnus Cort Mihkel Raim Lorrenzo Manzin Emmanuel Morin Pascal Ackermann Max Kanter Sam Bennett Jakub Mareczko Matteo Moschetti Dion Smith Jon Aberasturi Villaviciosa - Alto de La Farrapona. Lagos de Somiedo Stage 11 October, 31st 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Felix Grossschartner Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Hugh Carthy Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic David De La Cruz Enric Mas Mikel Nieve Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss La Pola Llaviana/Pola de Laviana - Alto de l'Angliru Stage 12 November, 1st 1st: 2nd: 3rd: Felix Grossschartner Michael Woods Esteban Chaves Ricardo Carapaz David Gaudu Guillaume Martin Hugh Carthy Dan Martin Davide Formolo Wout Poels Aleksandr Vlasov Primoz Roglic David De La Cruz Enric Mas Mikel Nieve Marc Soler Alejandro Valverde Sepp Kuss [/hide]

Every nation that hasn't voted yet, has received a message to remind them

And that's now 20 nations that are officially in, since at least one jury member has sent in their votes. A little bit of intermediate statistics about the preliminary results: - More than 11 nations can already cheer for at least one point, that's almost a third of the entire list of participants! - There is at least one (1) leader at this very moment, but it could also be either more or not! - At least 20 times has a selection of 12 points been sent! - So far, not a single country has managed to collect more than 240 points!

Sunday is sports day, screw that. Do it on a day where it doesn't mean missing sports

We call Amsterdam 'far away', but yeah, we're only a small country If I take my bike I can see Walibi within 15 minutes or so (on the other side of the water and only the top of the rollercoasters, but still ).

Those last days were....disappointing for my points Maybe I should have done the changing stages every day a bit more, but I generally forgot it even with the mentions

Yep! They have it every year (mostly around the summer and autumn) and always with a different theme. This year the theme was around 75 years of liberation and (together with @brunamoura) I visited it for the first time. I always thought it sounded a bit dull, but actually it is really interesting and cool to walk around

Shut it with your spoilers

Good thing Sölden is already behind him and it's a while before his main events are coming up, so it shouldn't be much of an issue probably.

Lemi Williamson must be a sister of Shane? Cool to see a new 10k name!

Honestly I knew there's a ton of history around here, but I had no idea Ermelo's church is over a thousand years old! Makes me want to hop on my bike next week

Done

Well that was a rather epic meltdown by Jumbo-Visma today

Maybe Slovak paprikas are different, but yellow, green and red paprikas here really don't differentiate much in terms of being sweet, spicy or hot.

What an anticlimax Expected, sure, but still.

No worries, I can taste paprika. That's the problem.

This is sad though, 24-year old Barceló is out because he had a bout of tachycardia during yesterday's stage and (logically!) the team doctor wants medical checks to be performed on him to rule out significant heart issues.

Those people dressing for winter when asked to dress for -5 degrees Celsius That's when I start figuring out a time 'somewhere in the next weeks' to go up to the attic and maybe find my autumn clothes.

Takaaki Nakagami, scoring points in every race and working up to 5th in the championship, got the first Japanese MotoGP pole position since 2004 yesterday in Aragon. Today is the race and within a few corners, he was down in the gravel

Yep, this. Never understood why different colours are even a thing there, the damn things all taste the same anyway.