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Great art too :-)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:28:41 +0200

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Great art 1 :-)

Wed, 30 Jul 2008 21:25:14 +0200

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Alfred Brendel

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:05:50 +0200

This Sunday me and my parents went to the Concert Gebouw Orchestra to enjoy one of the last recitals of Alfred Brendel the pianist. My father became 80 in January and this was my present to him.

It was a very nice experience and Brendel still was in great form, at age 77, so it became a memorable…

We're out

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 14:02:18 +0200

After 3 rather good games, in the quarter final we lost from Russia. It could have been even a bigger defeat, after extension now it was 1-3. Russia will now play Spain (won from Italy) in the Semi-finals. The other semi-final will be Germany (won from Portugal)-Turkey (won from Croatia).

Next France 4-1

Sat, 14 Jun 2008 05:11:09 +0200

From the BBC

Netherlands reached the last eight of Euro 2008 and topped Group C with a superb win against France, who are now fighting to survive in the tournament.

Dirk Kuyt headed the Dutch in front after only 10 minutes.

Substitute Robin van Persie turned in Arjen Robben's cross on the hour,…

Update

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 22:48:27 +0200

Great game, we won 3-0!!!!!

One of the goals (number 2):

Euro2008, the European Soccer Cup

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 18:59:42 +0200

This weekend Euro2008 started and today the Dutch are playing their first match in the extremely difficult group with Italy, France and Romania.

Tonight at 20.45 they start against Italy, which actually is the reigning world-champion, so it will be tough.

Update

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 10:50:10 +0200

I have not been able to update the site more frequently the last two weeks, was too busy or was doing other stuff. Will spend some more time on updating my upcoming visit to New Zealand instead of the standard weblog.

Safe and "half" save

Mon, 19 May 2008 07:31:01 +0200

Although we lost our game on Sunday we are save and will end between 6 and 9 in our veterans competition.

Our first men's team though (I played in it in the eighties) will have to play another match against Hurley. Hurley is the champion from the "Overgangsklasse" that is the second league, and…

That was a busy weekend

Tue, 13 May 2008 20:12:03 +0200

It is not so often I have my nephew over for a long weekend. He is now six years old, so rather demanding. It was a beautiful weekend, temperatures 25-27 degrees Celsius, almost too hot, but in "het Amsterdamse Bos" with the small lake and many canoes and water bikes a perfect treat.

The new Italian Ministers ...

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:25:16 +0200

Well as the Daily Mail describes, (it's all about looks and that is not new in Italy).

It is not the sort of appointment Gordon Brown would make to his cabinet.

But then Mr Brown is no Silvio Berlusconi, playboy and man of ostentatious political gestures.

The Italian prime minister, long known for his…

I discovered Jing

Fri, 09 May 2008 11:16:44 +0200

Well I am using it now to make a video of Sandvox, but it is usable for everything on the desktop.

Whitsunday weekend

Fri, 09 May 2008 09:15:15 +0200

The Whitsunday or Pentecost (Pinksteren in Dutch) comes from (see Wikipedia):

Pentecost (Ancient Greek: πεντηκοστή [ἡμέρα], pentekostē [hēmera], "the fiftieth day") is one of the prominent feasts in the Christian liturgical year, celebrated the 49th day (7 weeks) after EasterSunday (the tenth day…

Back home

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:47:54 +0200

Yesterday I was driving home, but we first visited Worms.

Worms (pronounced [voɐms]) is a city in the southwest of Germany. Its name is of Celtic origin: Borbetomagus meant "settlement in a watery area". This was eventually transformed into the Latin nameVormatia that had been in use since the 6th…

Odenwald

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:37:20 +0200

The second day we planned a biking tour to Speyer, but we all decided to do something else and I decided to make a tour in the Odenwald.

It's about a half hour drive from Mannheim and is an extremely nice part of Germany, well that is what I think at least.

I made a tour to, Wald-Michelbach, from…

Wissembourg

Mon, 05 May 2008 17:31:01 +0200

After Queen's day I went to Germany to visit my sister and her girlfriend. The second day we visited Wissembourg, a small old town in France, just over the border.

From Wikipedia:

Wissembourg (in French: Wissembourg, pronounced [visɑ̃buʁ]; in South Franconian: Weisseburch, pronounced [ˈvaɪsəbʊʁç];…

Queen's Day 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:34:44 +0200

Queen's Day 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:34:22 +0200

Queen's Day 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:27:52 +0200

Queen's Day 2008

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:47:31 +0200

Queen's Day is on

Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:23:16 +0200

Started yesterday evening with a lively Queen's Night today the actual Queen's day will take part. No rain at the moment, so far so good, will add pictures later today.

Graceful Jelly

Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:40:40 +0200

Some more days

Sat, 26 Apr 2008 10:52:13 +0200

And Queen's Day will happen and afterwards I will go to Germany for a short visit to my Sister living in Mannheim.

Mannheim is a city in Germany. With 327,318 inhabitants it is the second-largest city in the state of Baden-Württemberg after the capital Stuttgart.

Mannheim is situated at the…

Britannica online: On This Day in History

Sun, 20 Apr 2008 13:15:13 +0200

Biography Of The Day

Adolf Hitler reviewing troops on the Eastern Front, 1939.
Heinrich Hoffmann, Munich

Adolf Hitler
Born this day in 1889 in Austria, Adolf Hitler became leader of the Nazi Party in 1920 and chancellor of Germany in 1933, created a formidable war machine, provoked World War II,…

Tonight Ouder-S-Feest

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:20:13 +0200

This is a yearly party for parents and "older" people (like me :-) ) at my Hockeyclub Pinoke in Amsterdam. Most probably meeting many (old) friends, have some beers and dance occasionally on 70th and 80th music I think.

Queen's Day

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 13:00:56 +0200

The coming weeks many activities will take place due the "holidays".

But on the 30th of April (and the Night before Queen's Night) the biggest street party due to Queensday in Amsterdam will place.

So what is Queen's Day? Info from Wikipedia. See here my pictures I took in 2004, 2005 and 2007.

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New car

Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:58:55 +0200

I had to turn my old lease car in and now I have an in-between rental car. My new lease one will be a Mazda 6. We were rather surprised to see a Mercedes B180 as rental for several months as this one is even more expensive and that is something they normally not do.

Good weekend

Mon, 14 Apr 2008 17:47:53 +0200

It was a very enjoyable weekend, the birthday of my nephew getting 6 and a win in our hockey match.

My nephew got his first Wii and I gave him a steering wheel with the Mario Kart game which got great reviews. He was driving all Saturday afternoon.

We won on Sunday from Leiden, 2-1, but also our…

What a robot Dog ….

Sun, 13 Apr 2008 10:00:02 +0200

Pagico Organizer

Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:16:05 +0200

I translated Pagico into Dutch

Pagico is an organizer software with a whole new approach designed for home business, freelancers, educators and students.

It simply allows you to jot down notes as well as images, hyperlinks and other content — in essence, a centralized, personal “knowledge base”…

Hockey update

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 07:59:51 +0200

Tough matches we play. We (Pinoke veterans C) do not have a very good season, although we do not loose many games, we also do not win many. And because you get 3 points for winning a game, we are almost last in our league.

Yesterday we played number 3 Xenios and we managed to get a draw out of it,…

Some snow

Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:57:35 +0100

and the country comes to a complete stop ……

This morning 800+ Km of traffic jams (126) …. and the Netherlands are only 200 x 300 Km :-(.