Week-end aux Pays-Bas

Christmas beach

Hoek van Holland on 25/12/2010

Bikes

Delft Station, NL.
Where is my bike?

The Dutch & the world cup

Orange forever!
(not me, them...)

Hoek van Holland June 20.

prise en rafale...

Vuil and Glass

Vuil & Glass is a modern choreography by Conny Janssen with 8 cellist playing Philip Glass live. A fascinating 90 minutes for a really good performance of 4 couples of dancers accompanied by 8 cellists. If you have the chance to see it live, go! I loved it... the democratic choice was a wise one.

In the Rotterdam version, the stage was set up differently, there was no conductor and some sequences were slightly different than the ones presented in that video. Maybe because one dancer was injured.

Rotterdamse Schouwburg

When I went back in Holland a few weeks ago, we decided to do something special on saturday night. After several rounds of democratic negotiation we chose Rotterdam, the Schouwburg, modern dans and live cellists. It was really good!

- the entrance hall -

- the backstage -

- the graffiti café-

Happy New Year?!

New year in the Netherlands looks like this.....






and this is what technically saved our night...


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Maas

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NL - Monster autumn beach

The beach, this afternoon. Sunny, windy, September.

- picture taken through polarized sunglasses, view of 6&8e Petroleum Haven -

but where is Monster???


Agrandir le plan

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Liberal Netherlands

- Fresh mushrooms, official dealer -

- Aphrodisiac herbs -

- Mushrooms & Marihuana kits -

- Dutch cannabis seed, the starter kit -

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Westland

Westland or the place where you tomatoes grow... Have a closer look!





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Den Haag - new version

- never ending work in progress -

- Dr Anton Philipzaaal -

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Den Haag - old version

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01/01 sea bath

On January 1st, it's a tradition to have a swim in the North Sea. This year outside temperature was around 0°c.

ps: you need to pay for it ;-D





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Fireworks new year Holland

New Year celebrations in the Netherlands are quite special... People buy there own fireworks light them at midnight. It's quite impressive because assortements contain up to 500g of powder. Of course it seems funnier to throw them on pedestrians, explode shop-windows or damage cars! In our area there were a 50t storage place + 30t warehouse.

Here are interesting abstracts of a dutch newspaper about the events:
"Every New Year, the amount of damage caused by seriously big fireworks goes up. Last year's damage is estimated by insurers to top 4 million euros. In total, 22 schools were burned down and 1,100 people were injured."


"The public prosecution department estimates that between 1 and 2 million kg of illegal fireworks are let off in the Netherlands every year."


"One of the problems with detecting fireworks is that Chinese products are sometimes labled and shipped as light explosives, when they are in fact much heavier. And, inspectors say, some of the Netherlands' legal importers also bring in wrongly-classified fireworks as a side line. They don't go to the tightly controlled legal firework outlets, but disappear into the illegal circuit."


"A 16-year-old boy from Oosterhout was found with 250 kg in his bedroom."

http://www.nrc.nl/international/Features/article2108063.ece/Illegal_firework_seizures_explode_



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