September last year Marion and I have bicycled in the Spaarnwoude area (close to the city of Haarlem). During this very nice trip we found a small church called “De Stompe Toren”…
This church is not used as church anymore, but has found a new purpose in exhibitions and small concerts. Last year we already said it would be nice to visit it again. But as so many things in life, you forget about it…
That is until somewhere last week we remember “De Stompe Toren”. And this time we did what said more than a year ago.
Today we visited “De Stompe Toren”. There was a concert of Close-Up, a vocal group doing a very impressive acapella concert. We both enjoyed it a lot.
There was also an exhibition of work of Jeffrey Zijlstra. Very colourful and imaginative paintings. Maybe not completely my style, but still I like it. Marion really loved the paintings.
It was still a bit early for dinner, so we made a walk through the very lovely area. It is very nice around there. Quiet but still full of life. Which is nice to experience in the hurry and stress of every days life.
We had dinner at “De Stal”, which is very close to church where we visited the concert and exhibition. This restaurant has a great country-side atmosphere. We both felt right away welcome. It was not too busy and that is the way I like it when Marion and I have dinner together.
The food was very good. As apéritif we both had a carpaccio. As main course Marion had an entrecôte and I went for a rib-eye (both served with baked potatoes, different kind of vegetables and a salad). As dessert we both wanted the same again, a Dame Blanche. And of course to make a good end to it all, a nice cup of Cappuccino.
A very well spend Sunday, I could not say anything different…