Yearly ASTRON R&D outing

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.© -

On June 5th, the R&D department of Astron had its yearly outing. Although it was only announced as "something fun", almost everyone signed up(*). This year, we stayed extremely close to Astron: the destination was only 3 km away. Which was why we took a 16 km detour to get there, on tandems.

The destination was another spot on the Dwingelerveld, a nice place in the forest. There was an outdoor competition with the following elements: riding a unicycle, walking in the forest blindfolded, a timed balancing act, escaping from tied ropes and carrying balls up a hill. From this description and the pictures above it should be clear that it was the enthousiasm of everyone that made it, indeed, fun.

We were somewhat unlucky with the weather, which made that the planned barbecue took place in tents. And also that we couldn't bike the tandems back, because it was pouring. That's why we all tried to get in Eim's car, which of course got stuck in the mud. The last group activity was pushing Eim out, get the Astron cars, and get everyone back to Astron.

Thanks everyone for a nice day!