This weekend Marion and I made a nice walk at the large pond just outside Haaksbergen known as “De Recreatie-vijver” (The Recreation Pond). But folks from Haaksbergen will most likely know it better as “De Bergingsvijver” (The Storage Pond). This pond is artificial and was created in 1975. The goal of this pond was to…
Category: I was there!
Life is there to… listen to Moya and Cormac!
Some weeks ago Patrick contacted me and told me that he wanted to go concert of Moya Brennan. She and Cormac De Barra would perform in Paradiso. And well, Paradiso is not that far away from where I live. The name Brennan sounded familiar to me, but I could not place it. When Patrick mentioned…
Life is there to… see Faun on stage.
I really did forget about this… Before Marion left for her yearly break to Hawaii, we had a nice Sunday evening together in Amsterdam. First we had dinner at a very good steakhouse of who I sadly the name forgot. But the main attraction of the evening was a performance of “Faun”, which was in…
Life is there to… visit “De Zotte”
Every now and then some of the folks of the team where I work in go somewhere to have some beers together, often combined with a good dinner. It is good to share time with your direct colleagues outside the company and have some fun. And of course other colleagues are welcome to come along…
Life is there to be… at “Spoken”.
I already talked here on my blog about the Hip Hop/Rap artist Blaxtar (who is also my colleague Kevin). Although his music style is not completely mine, I am very impressed by the things he does. For example he is the man behind poetry concert “Spoken”, where text-writers, poets and other people who do magic…
Life is there to… learn about Tutankhamun
Somewhere last week I learned that there was in Amsterdam a exhibition about the pharaoh Tutankhamun (or “Toetanchamon” as is often is called in Dutch), his tomb and his treasures. I always had an interest in the pharaohs, their time and specially the things they built. The exhibition was at the “Amsterdam Expo”, which is very…
Life is there to… feel the storm!
Ever since I’m living close to the sea, I wanted to make pictures of the sea and the beach during a heavy storm. But mostly when there is a storm, it also raining. My old camera (Nikon D40) could not stand any water. My new camera (Nikon D300s) is much more capable to handle rain,…
Life is there to… see Lucuna Coil
Last Wednesday I have been to concert of Lucuna Coil. And I have to be honest, before I was asked to come along to this concert I never had heard of them. But the funny thing was that Cor (a colleague of mine) invited me to this concert. And I was considering to accept that…
Life is there to… visit the Fortress Island
As people may know, I own a Nikon D300s DSLR. And because I want to keep informed about everything that happens around Nikon, I am member of the NCN (“Nikon Club Nederland”). The NCN has every year a club day for its members. This year the club has its 25 year anniversary and for that…
Life is there to… see Haaksbergen again…
Although I was born in the city of Amsterdam, I spent the most of my live in a town called Haaksbergen. Haaksbergen is a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands. My parents moved from Amsterdam to Haaksbergen when I was very young (I was around one and a half years old). I have…