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Don’t yellow the snow

One of the first tips I ever received when I started snowboarding, over ten years ago, was "don't eat the yellow snow". A well-know sentence and hard to forget. The last few weeks, it has been snowing in the Netherlands so the line popped up in my head again. I ...

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December 28, 2009

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Cookies

Being a web developer, the word "cookie" I mostly use when referred to as 'http cookie' which can be used to track a visitor while visiting a website. The English word 'cookie' comes from the Dutch word 'koek', or better the word for 'small cookie': koekje. But today, my girlfriend ...

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November 29, 2009

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Ruurlo, Roderlo, Reurle… 17 years later

Ruurlo. A small town in the east of the Netherlands where I lived about 7 years and left when I was 9. Today I went back, almost 19 years later, which was weird in a way. In my memory, everything was big, large, long and such. Our street was long, the ...

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October 31, 2009

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Either direction

Sometimes, you may need advice but once given, a decision seems even harder to make. The last few months have been pretty busy, hard, difficult and sometimes even depressing. Having worked on a new service the last 8 months, spoken to many enthusiastic clients, the last few months didn't work ...

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September 25, 2009

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Festival de théâtre au château de Bonaguil (France)

Montcabrier (near Cahors) is a very small french town in the département Lot. Hills, a creek (the Thèze), castles (like Bonaguil) and trees. We visited the Festival de théâtre au château de Bonaguil at night. "Le timide auy Palais" was the name of the show on Tuesday night at the ...

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August 5, 2009

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Cirque de Navacelles

Starting a very nice vacation with my girlfriend Imke in Etratat, July 31 we were staring at the weird Cirque de Navacelles. The Cirque de Navacelles is large cirque landform, located towards the southern edge of the Massif Central mountain range in France. We used TomTom to bring us there... ...

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July 31, 2009

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5 years later…

After 5 years I left my house at the Brigittenstraat... Together with my girlfriend Imke we now live in Wittevrouwen, Utrecht as well. It feels strange to leave this place after such a long time. Although we did live in Milan for about 7 month, now this is officialy not ...

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June 30, 2009

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Future of beach holiday?

This picture was taken on a weird foggy day on the island Terschelling, north of The Netherlands. Would a beach holiday look like this in the future? With smog and climate changes? I upgraded the contrast which does show some little blue sky in the upper right corner but one ...

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May 19, 2009

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Details on the streets

Right in front of my house, a tiny mistake has been there for at least 58 years. Personally, I can only garantuee the last four years or so. Before staring at the picture, you should know I live in the city called UTRECHT. Anyway, this small little detail does make ...

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April 13, 2009

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Paleis Soestdijk

Sunny Saturday, a nice day to visit the palace "Paleis Soestdijk", in Soestdijk. Together with my lovely girlfriend Imke.

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March 22, 2009