Probably the warmest December adventure yet

Today, we had quite a strange adventure. Not like that’s unusual or anything.

We started off having to pass through 216 as there was no parking and we saw once again a very familiar river. Once reaching 219 we set off for a muddy adventure.

Throughout the adventure we had this big long conversation about percentages and how you can say 'probably' to any yes or no question that has a probability from 0 to 1 including 1. This is true except for 0. You can’t say probably to a probability if you know for a fact that the probability would be zero (unless you are being sarcastic).

We came into this very strange clearing and I suggested we take the first video ever taken on this blog because we wanted to show the full 360 view of the scenery. Here it is:

At one point we met quite a few animals of the day. The first ones were 3 chickens that didn't interact with us much. The second was a field of many sheep (or at least we thought they were sheep). Tonio made a bad joke when he saw a black sheep. He said that it was the black sheep of the family. Very funny Tonio. The third animal was two ducks waddling around in the mud and the final animals were two cows  in the same field as the ducks.

After the adventure we decided to go to a 'friterie' that replaced a restaurant called 'Italia Grill'. We both shared a small chips and I had a coke.

But after all that, we went back to the car and drove home... Did you enjoy this adventure? If you have then make sure to join us on our next one. Also, make sure to check out Tonio's blog called The Wanderer. But for now, that’s all folks!

GianlucaDeGringu

A beautiful rose next to a memorial stone. Pictures by Gianluca.

[Tonio]: 

On the very last day of 2018 we squeezed in another adventure: number 219 around the Margijsbos forest, close to Loonbeek.

As is customary, I started taking pictures even before the 'official' beginning of our walk.

'Yet another picture of this watermill,' according to Gianluca.

As is also customary, the walk had a unique character of its own. While navigating our way I came up with my 'Theory of Probability'. This states that you can reply to any yes/no question with one word: 'Probably', the only exception being if you're 100% certain that the answer is no. A very low probability is still a probability. A certainty ('yes') is a probability of one, or 100%. All qualifying as 'probably', meaning that there is a non-zero level of probability, except if the probability is zero (i.e. the answer is a definite 'no'). We considered different scenarios illustrating this theory, Gianluca quickly working the formula to perfection by answering 'Probably' to most of my questions... We had an argument about whether what looked like a concrete bunker could have been formed naturally, purely by incredibly unlikely coincidence. I insisted this was absolutely impossible but Gianluca maintained that the probability, even though incredibly small, was still there. The pupil beating the master at his own game. We also pondered on the 'astronomically' small probability of the structure having been built by aliens. And so it went on through the muddy paths...

Earlier, while walking through an open plain with fields all around and some distance away from the edge of the forest, Gianluca suggested I take a 360 degree video scan of the surroundings. It was our first video (up above) taken for this blog.

Dull and dreary as it was, it was quiet and pleasant and I managed to take some interesting pictures, while of course enjoying the banter with my 'pupil'.

My silly quip of the day: 'The black sheep of the family'. I just couldn't resist.