In 2012 Marion and I made a bicycle ride into the dune-area and we discovered a wonderful small path leading us through the forests. This path was called the “Bram Hijmans-trail”. We had a very enjoyable time over then (see the article A nice bicycle trip… about that). I learned that Bram Hijmans was a…
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The Art of the Brick
“Art makes better humans. Art is necessary in understanding the world and art makes people happy. Undeniably, art is not optional.” – Nathan Sawaya Who doesn’t know the little Lego-bricks? I think almost everyone will have played with them. I knew already for some time that there would be an exhibition about Lego nearby, but…
“Berlin”, Ellen ten Damme
Some time ago I was informed that Ellen ten Damme would give a special concert. There were two reasons for this concert to be special: All the songs would be in German. And concert would be used to make a new CD. So I bought tickets for the best available seats. The concert would be…
A walk along the Zandvoort Beach…
Already for some time Marion and I had planned to have a nice walk along one of the beaches here again, but because of all kind of reasons it just didn’t happen. So this morning the sun was shinning and we saw our chance today. We decided to go the beach of Zandvoort. The train…
“Raumschiff Orion”
Somewhere last week at work my colleague Andreas, who is from German origin, mentioned that the ring tone of his mobile phone was of an old German SF series. Well, if I have to think of an old German SF series then directly “Raumschiff Orion” (“Spaceship Orion”) comes to mind. And I was right, he…
And again a new Suske & Wiske comic!
When I was doing some shopping today (I like it a lot that shops are open on Sunday) I noticed a new comic in the Suske & Wiske series. It is the 325th Suske & Wiske comic (within the official series) Of course I bought it :-). The story is about a ghost, World War…
A Cookery Book with memories…
The book on the picture above is a cookery book and a rather old one. The book is called “Ik kan koken” (“I can cook”) and it belonged to my mother. I have known this book all my life and now it is standing between much modern books of Jamie Oliver, Pierre Wind and 24Kitchen…
An small experiment…
When you have a hobby then mostly you will be looking to get the most out of that hobby. Well, I do have two hobbies. Hmmm, that is not true. I have many hobbies, but I had an idea to do something nice with two of my hobbies, combined that is. These hobbies are plants…
Just some flowers….
People who have visited me, know that I have always flowers standing on the dinner table. Some say I do that for Marion, but that is just partly correct. Sure Marion loves flowers, but I also think that flower add to the warmth of room. And most flowers are wonderful to see. So I do…
Lucifera… an old comic…
When I was young boy, about the ago of 13 or something, the was a comic series called “Lucifera, the minnares van de duivel” (“Lucifera, the Devil’s lover”). I have been reading some episodes of that series at that age. I think because my older brother owned some of them, but I have to be…