Godfried van Loo

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 aux Palais” was the name of the show on Tuesday night at the castle. A friendly, funny and nice performance.

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… Not a very smart thing. The extremely dry landscape and hardly any sign of live, doesn’t make it a comfortable journey… the small “white roads” of TomTom were not as easy as he thought they were (maximum speed was 80 km/hour but that is not easy to get).

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 my home anymore…

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 could hardly see anything that day.

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 me smile and I hope the ‘error’ will not be correted soon.

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

Yesterday I found myself among hundreds of people staring at a couple of walking girls dressed with cloths made by the man that showed himself for 5 seconds in the end. So yes, this was a fashion show. Designer: Daryl van Wouw. Nice way to start the month I’d say.

January was cold. Snow, ice, and more. Together with my good friend Boudewijn we spent the last day of January at Alkmaar and surroundings, like here at Castricum aan Zee. Let’ see what February will bring.

Christmas 2008 was cold but nice here in the Neterlands. However, my tomato plant at the office may not be much of a good friend anymore nor do I expect him to ever deliver an actual tomato. Maybe I should get myself a new plant next year.

UPDATE (January 6th, 2009)

As you can see on the second picture with the help of some water, sun AND Scoutle the plant has been saved!

I just finished another website, Qurify! Although it took me only two days, I think this is a very useful tool. Qurify! makes it very easy to so called “qurify messages” or in other words “convert text into a QR Code”. Check out this great and also funny tool at Qurify.com – Make your own QR Codes.

(update: The website has been translated and is now available in 7 languages! More languages to come!)