Five years ago my husband and I visited the Lock of Love art installation that was put up on Valentine’s Day of that year (photo from 2010 above). We bought a lock and had it engraved so that we could put it on there and throw away the key, thus cementing our love forever (or so the story goes!). Being …
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Back in May Xander and I went geocaching for the second time, and I totally forgot to write about it! It wasn’t long after our first geocaching adventure, and it looked like quite a fun one to do. We were going to see a film that morning and decided that since this particular cache was in one of the parking …
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Today is a holiday in the Netherlands so I have my honey home with me. The weather has been beautiful so we decided to take advantage and go for a bike ride. We packed a lunch, grabbed an old duvet cover (mental note: buy picnic blanket!) and head off. We biked through Zuiderpark, where I almost died with envy for …
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Today someone in one of my photo clubs shared something on Facebook and I thought it was SO cool! It’s a website that has taken a collection of panoramic and 360 degree photos taken from all different rooftops around the city. They have put it together so that you can tour Rotterdam from above via these photos. (The following photos …
Read More »Last Sunday I posted about the foggy weather and sure enough, it’s the same this week, another Pea Soup Sunday! I guess it could be worse, it could be pouring down rain, or freezing but still… I could use a little sunshine again! I get the feeling we are in for a rather long and dreary winter in the Netherlands …
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This morning I woke up and couldn’t tell if the windows of our flat were foggy or if it was REALLY that foggy outside. Turns out, it REALLY was that foggy outside. I grabbed my point and shoot and quickly snapped some photos from our front balcony. It’s a bit wonky but you can get the idea. There is some …
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Number 16 on my 101 List was to join a book club. It’s something I’ve wanted to do for quite a while but never really bothered to look into. So when some friends of started one, I was all over it! I’m not actually in the above photo, as I had forgotten my tripod and was busy taking the photo …
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Last week a friend asked if I would go along with her to check out a photo club here in Rotterdam. She left a link to the Urban Photo Collective on Facebook and asked me to check it out. My first instinct was to decline, because it’s a Dutch group and I was nervous about not fitting in. I tried …
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One thing I’ve always wanted was to get some photos of lightning, the really giant fork lightning like you see on all the great photos on Flickr. We don’t get a lot of that here in the Netherlands, and if we do we don’t see much because it’s often really cloudy. Last night we had a thunder and lightning storm …
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Rant incoming! It’s about people, and how they suck… and the rules of the road in the Netherlands that I just don’t understand! Today my husband and I were driving to the supermarket, and he nearly hit a biker with the car. We both instantly thought that the guy was in the wrong, and apparently he thought the same about …
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Saturday my friend Penny and I went into Rotterdam for a girl’s day before she leaves for holiday to California for three weeks. We shopped, had lunch, shopped, sat on some terraces and shopped. It was a beautiful with our first 20+ degree weather of the year. At the end of the day we went to watch a display that …
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