Jordan grounds feel good to me
Well I am home.
These Jordan grounds make me feel good, sosososoososo good!
When I walk in my "hood," when I see my neighbours, when I hear them talk...
It's a place I want to come home to and where I'd like to stay for a very long time!
I broke my promises again about updating more frequently.
And you might not care but I do.
I mostly write for me, and whoever finds that fun to read is just lucky (or am I?).
Last week I went to the Oude Kerk to take a peek at the World Press Photo exhibition.
It was my first time there but certainly not my last, it was beautiful.
Shocking, sad, intense and touching. Contrasts were flying from wall to wall.
This next picture touched me the most, even though I think it shouldn't really be hanging there.
Since this picture is just a portrait from a series and most World Press Photos are news-related.
Still, I found the kid so beautiful that I also felt the urge to take a picture of it (that probably also struck the photographer to take this picture in the first place)...
Taken by: Annie van Gemert, NL
Last year around this period of time I spend a fabulous week on the international grounds of NYC! I feel lucky we decided to go there last year instead of now, with the Times Square drama... While we were in NYC on Queensday 2009, the royal family visited Apeldoorn. While the parade went through the city, a guy drove his car into a statue nearby them, and crashed. He and seven others died because of that. Today, during the annual WWII memorial service at Dam Square Amsterdam, people paniqued because of some guy who started yelling near the end of the two minutes of silence. The guy was immediately arrested.
Youtube is already full of videos from the audience and it's all over TV and the internet.
I was watching it on tv while it happened and with the happenings of last year in the back of my head I kept waiting for something to happen. You hope it won't but yet you expect it, at least I did. Good thing we have a cool queen. Right after it happened they were quickly being guided back inside, but only a few minutes later she came back with her head up like a mom who had to be there for her fellow Dutchies! And so the ceremony continued...
Well, end good all good and that's what I want to end with for now. Just a few more pictures to express my love for Amsterdam (except for the first one, I just think you should see the inside of a tuktuk once!).
tuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuk
Coffee and cake in the narrow streets of the Jordaan @Le Petit Vloer
Saving the best for last, taken on an early morning when leaving for work
These Jordan grounds make me feel good, sosososoososo good!
When I walk in my "hood," when I see my neighbours, when I hear them talk...
It's a place I want to come home to and where I'd like to stay for a very long time!
I broke my promises again about updating more frequently.
And you might not care but I do.
I mostly write for me, and whoever finds that fun to read is just lucky (or am I?).
Last week I went to the Oude Kerk to take a peek at the World Press Photo exhibition.
It was my first time there but certainly not my last, it was beautiful.
Shocking, sad, intense and touching. Contrasts were flying from wall to wall.
This next picture touched me the most, even though I think it shouldn't really be hanging there.
Since this picture is just a portrait from a series and most World Press Photos are news-related.
Still, I found the kid so beautiful that I also felt the urge to take a picture of it (that probably also struck the photographer to take this picture in the first place)...
Taken by: Annie van Gemert, NL
Last year around this period of time I spend a fabulous week on the international grounds of NYC! I feel lucky we decided to go there last year instead of now, with the Times Square drama... While we were in NYC on Queensday 2009, the royal family visited Apeldoorn. While the parade went through the city, a guy drove his car into a statue nearby them, and crashed. He and seven others died because of that. Today, during the annual WWII memorial service at Dam Square Amsterdam, people paniqued because of some guy who started yelling near the end of the two minutes of silence. The guy was immediately arrested.
Youtube is already full of videos from the audience and it's all over TV and the internet.
I was watching it on tv while it happened and with the happenings of last year in the back of my head I kept waiting for something to happen. You hope it won't but yet you expect it, at least I did. Good thing we have a cool queen. Right after it happened they were quickly being guided back inside, but only a few minutes later she came back with her head up like a mom who had to be there for her fellow Dutchies! And so the ceremony continued...
Well, end good all good and that's what I want to end with for now. Just a few more pictures to express my love for Amsterdam (except for the first one, I just think you should see the inside of a tuktuk once!).
tuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuktuk
Coffee and cake in the narrow streets of the Jordaan @Le Petit Vloer
Saving the best for last, taken on an early morning when leaving for work
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