Yeah, not sure why that is, but they remind me of my childhood too. I heard their coo all my life, but somehow it reminds me of walking to school as a child.

Ah. Yeah, heaven it is then.

Are you sure it is silent? That seems a bit odd, but i don’t know mourning doves. Are they still sitting on the chicks?

I just know from feral pigeons, that they coo a lot at their chicks, but maybe they do some silent vibrating / cooing while they are still sitting on their chicks non stop, at least they are all silent then, the cooing only comes later when the parents leave the nest for a while. I have never seen them react to music really either.

Do you already know what type of software you’d wanna use for the blog? Some kind of federated blog i assume? I am playing around with wordpress again, i think it’s pretty good for a non-techie person like me, i like it.

Yeah i also do it only locally, although i got to say this wanderer.to thing looks pretty interesting. There is an instance on tchncs.de, i’m thinking about signing up there, just to have a look. Would be cool if that was also compatible with wordpress or ghost, to add the tracks from a blog into the wanderer sphere, maybe it is already possible, i don’t know.

It was just cheese and sauce, that is also what I saw in the restaurants there. Pizza wurstel seems to be it’s own Italian classic 😁

Just the amount of self reflection i’d expect from you. You are a toxic bully yourself.

That is awesome to see (son of) Chalkie after some years again! Would make my day.

What a cute spot they have there.

Alright, I had no idea. Very cool.

Oh wow, nice. Did you happen to just spot them or were you on an expedition to find them?

Yes, usually life long couples.

Some more Alfie & Maria from the weekend. They have kids who are doing their first flights right now.

Eww, oh, ok. 😁 Still a super good idea.

I’m packing the bike and off

That is a super good idea 😀 If you do, please post or crosspost something to !bicycle_touring@lemmy.world. First weeks of September i’ll be on my bike again too, looking forward to that.

That looks so sweet. Are there already bears in the area or do they stay on slovakian side 😅

Really like that city as a visitor.

Hm, yeah was just a guess. I could not live with screeching brakes either, the horror of riding a screeching loaded bike down a high alpine pass 😁

Probably was just your rim / brake pad mix. I remember had a screeching bike like this too when i was young, but on my current bike with v brakes it does not screech.

If i would buy new, i probably would want to go for disc brakes, not that there’d be much other choice, haha. But i feel people have a warped view on v-brakes, i have no real complaints. Super simple mechanics. Big alpine passes, loaded bike, in the rain… the stuff that people tell you is impossible is in my lived reality no problem at all. And holy shit do brake pads last a long time on those. I still like v-brakes, certainly not something that makes me want to buy a new bike.

Did you not follow me to the sopuli meta comm, making up stories about my character, to try and discredit my complaint about this?

I guess it got a bit too uncomfortable to defend when bystanders create topics like this, so you give in a bit but keep on applauding and talking about the importance of this ill intended reposting.