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Dutch on Ice

How cheesy can it be? It’s a few days below zero and everybody suddenly wants to skate. And so do I, how Dutch. And even if I did not have skates, and even if I did not skate for years I managed not to fall down at all.

It’s Saturday morning, early as I biked through the streets of The Hague, on the way to a friend of mine where we would gather up.

It’s minus five I guess, but I’m prepared (with Mongolian trousers included). And my skates of course, found and got them within a few hours on the online market place, picked them up for a dime in Delft on the way home from Rotterdam yesterday. It’s hard to find skates now, and on the news they are even mentioning traffic jams all over the place because of the sudden immense interest to ice skate.

“It might be your last.”

And how lovely, a few hours later we were on the ice, somewhere on the fields outside of the big city, where the Dutch landscape truly comes alive. We passed the old farmer mills and children selling coffee and hot chocolate on the docks, hundreds to thousands people were on the ice.

On the way we stopped in a village, ice skating through its channel. We heard folk music and saw a lot of people gathering up in the centre, where everybody was on the wooden flounders entering the local bar.

The smell of hot stew (yes, the famous pea soup) combined with thick hot dogs was nearly unbearable, as I sat eating saying: “I hope they’re not going to play Frans Bauer…” But they that the moment I said it, a tune of him, one of the most famous and traditional Dutch folk music artist, started.

I guess you just have to love it. I did.

Let it snow...

It had been a while since I had seen snow, and yesterday it was finally there, made me think of the time I spent in Mongolia, The whole day it snowed covering trees, roads and buildings with a white layer and as seen on the picture, the peace palace also got some.

I thought I'd share.

This picture was taken from Anna, a 'creative' space near the peace palace. The building shelters creative companies, artists, galeries, and even a small movie theatre. And that's why I thought to check it out; ending up into seeing the manga classic Akira once again.

For those who are interested, take a look at Artikraak.org for more information about Anna.

Fuck The Rain!

Saw this one in a newspaper, made me think of an idea sketched in my dummy some time ago about umbrella's. It would be awesome those 'personalizable' umbrella's... im still waiting for one with a Stop sign on it... pretty handy for when the bus comes!

Smart FireFighter!

Wow, I did not see this before! Firefighters (and some police, so I heard) now also changed into a new appearence, on top of their usual trucks I may hope!

Werdet aktiv ?

Standing and waiting for the bus late at night my eye glimpsed on this 'advertisement', which made me think. You can find this post in a bus stop infront of a high school in The Hague (displayed next to the bus timetable).

It is saying 'beat the system, and become active' in somekind of matrix style, which isn't that herassing. But what did is the man portrayed on the right, totally in black as in some kind of secret cult... as well as that the whole thing is written in german... which is... well you get the picture...

The Big Box Mystery

On my way to school in the morning I walked into something which wasn't there yesterday. Still in my morning trance I gazed at the object (ofcourse helping me to miss the tram) for a few seconds... what is it and what does it do?



As you can see the object is quite big, it is solid metal and closed from all sides. It is quite overwhelming when you get to this in the early morning as you might understand, though I did not at all. It was as aliens suddenly dropped it out of the sky.


I guess the object was there waiting for it to be deported, nevertheless it stayed there waiting for over a week which made me kind of curious. Present it has been removed but isn't it a pretty sight ? Lots of people walk by, looking at it but walking straight by it. I'm pretty sure it had to with the construction sight near it, and that it is some kind of shipping container or it is a thing that should be underground (like a huge trashcan) normally.

Garbage Fun

How can you make the most fun out of putting a huge amount of trash outside ??

Well, simply with a lot of people you can make a lot of fun by putting your trash outside, but where I get my pleasure is the reaction of the men who are picking the trash up. To make their job a little more fun we made some nice drawings on a poster seen on the picture with a 'Thank You!'-letter on it...