2018-05-31 20:04
Okay, while I wanted to keep the posts I make continuously updated, republishing them every time an addition is made: WordPress doesn’t like that. In that case I’ll just publish… Read More
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2018-05-03 20:20
One thing I noticed while gathering inspiration for this blog is the huge amount of street art I keep running into. This is either graffitti or murals, but still. I decided to compile some i… Read More
2018-04-15 20:59
I’ve gotten an idea of what to do with this blog. Obviously I haven’t been sitting still for the past months; the weather has actually turned around and there is a lot of sunligh… Read More
2018-03-01 21:04
As a child, I grew up in the nineties. I didn’t catch much of the earliest years, but some of my earliest vivid memories are from the times of the Lion King and Eurohouse. Another thin… Read More
2018-02-05 21:18
Past weekend, I went and visited Budapest for the first time in my life. And now, as I’m back in safe and comfortable Amsterdam and get myself up to make a number of posts about it, I… Read More
2018-01-29 13:00
Weigh houses (or as we simply call it: Waags) can be spotted in a ton of different Dutch cities, and they are typical for them: Germany has some; Poland has some, but apart from that the pra… Read More
2018-01-28 12:43
Close to the Nieuwmarkt, at the Kloveniersburgwal, you can find the above building. It’s got quite a history, being originally built as a church for an obscure Lutherian Christian move… Read More
2018-01-27 21:53
Amersfoort is a city in the province Utrecht, and after the city it’s basically the major hub of the area. It’s a bit of a weird city, that once was very poor, only to experience… Read More
2018-01-26 21:47
One of the biggest and most famous nature areas of the Netherlands is the Veluwe. To the north of it lies the small city of Nunspeet, and it’s a densely forested area. Other areas of t… Read More
2018-01-25 21:37
The Hague (or Den Haag as we call it here) is the third largest city of the Netherlands, and the political capital of the country. While Amsterdam is the main capital, our government houses… Read More
2018-01-24 21:08
More and more people want to live in Amsterdam, so the city is trying like crazy to build new houses. All over the city you can find new construction projects. A challenge, because Amsterdam… Read More
2018-01-23 17:10
I have been debating whether or not to include this post, but in the end I will. When I started this blog, I wanted it to have three main focuses: a portrayal of all of the foreign places I… Read More
2018-01-22 22:41
Most people know the Afsluitdijk. The one that closes off the central part of the Netherlands from the sea. But much less people know of the second dyke inbetween the Markenmeer and the IJss… Read More
2018-01-21 22:39
Most cities in the Netherlands have the same kind of origin: a medieval core town surrounded by newly built neighbourhoods. There are a few exceptions to this, the most notable being in the… Read More
2018-01-20 22:49
Weesp is a small city, about 15 minutes away from Amsterdam by trein. In the past few years, it’s grown quite a bit, but its historic city center is still quite well maintained, and yo… Read More
2018-01-19 22:30
This has been on my mind for quite a while now. You’ve probably read that Amsterdam has welcomed a tremendous amount of tourists for the past number of years. It’s not as bad as… Read More
2018-01-18 22:49
This is my final post of my trip to Tromsø, and I want to dedicate this one to a few more pictures of small things I ran into. Things that don’t warrant their own post, but are… Read More
2018-01-17 22:48
Tromsø has its own little mini aquarium, called Polaria. Its main attraction is a bunch of seals, but they also have quite a few fish, shellfish and coral, both from the area and from… Read More
2018-01-16 22:48
Be sure to anticipate lots of snow. I was there for three full days, and I managed to take lots of pictures of the snowy landscape. Here are some of the best I took Read More
2018-01-15 22:42
Tromsø is home to the northernmost cathedral in the world: the Tromsø domkirke. This, despite what you might think, is not the same as the much prettier Arctic Cathedral, locat… Read More
2018-01-14 22:40
So on the whale watching tour I took, we spent four hours travelling 120 kilometers back and forth throughout the fjords around the area in order to get to the whales. Seeing them was just a… Read More
2018-01-13 22:48
Around the Tromsø area humpback whales and orcas can be found, though you need to look carefully. The humpback whales in particular, they normally go through a 60-year cycle, where th… Read More
2018-01-12 22:33
So, the Northern Lights. A phenomenon when solar flares collide with the earth’s magnetic field and create all sorts of pretty colors in the sky. The effects can range from simple gree… Read More
2017-12-29 11:18
So Tromsø lies in the most northern regions of Norway. Above anything Swedish, and Finland only has a few tips that are mostly wilderness that lie further north. It lies about 350 kil… Read More
2017-12-28 16:32
Travel is a big focus of this blog, but I also have a big interest in music. Now that 2017 is ending, I’d like to use this opportunity to present you a list with the musical albums tha… Read More
2017-12-28 10:52
So as it turns out, my trip to Tromsø gave me enough material for like ten posts. They will appear gradually over the next few weeks. The one I want to start with is about a phenomeno… Read More
2017-12-22 20:34
So let me tell you about this little adventure I’m having: the plan was to fly to Tromsø in Norway for the holidays. Tromsø as in that incredibly north-lying city within… Read More
2017-12-20 19:59
Amsterdam has done its fair share to give the city some atmosphere during the dark winter evenings. There’s not one place where everything happens, rather they organize a lot of small… Read More
2017-12-18 21:18
When we travel in search of history, we often seek out either the places people used to live, pray or fight. A lot of preservation effort is put into the old houses where people used to live… Read More
2017-12-12 20:49
You know open air museums? I’m talking about the kinds that collect all kinds of historic and old buildings across the country (or replicate them), and create a little town out of them… Read More
2017-12-06 21:13
The “Festival”-bit of the title “Amsterdam Lights Festival” is a bit of a misnomer, because when it comes down to it, it’s basically a bunch of light installati… Read More
2017-12-05 20:03
Okay, let’s get one string straight: does Takumi serve the best noodle soup of whole Düsseldorf? No.
And I don’t mean that there is one better, it’s just: how do you q… Read More
2017-12-03 19:25
Teyler’s Museum opened up its doors in 1784, being based on the collection of rich silktradesman Pieter Teyler van der Hulst. Over the years it has steadily been expanded.
The museum h… Read More
2017-12-03 11:16
In the past I had been to Düsseldorf before, but only as a transit. I never had the chance to really look at the city, and with its famous Christmas market started, now was a better tim… Read More
2017-12-01 18:44
I am very picky when it comes to museums that feature just art. I guess it’s all too… pompous for me, and rarely do I find beauty in what the museums find valuable. I especially… Read More
2017-11-29 21:21
I like visiting churches and religious buildings when I travel, but another type of place that also takes my interest is train stations. These are huge buildings, bringing together heaps of… Read More
2017-11-28 21:43
We visited Paris at the end of November, we had a lovely time, but was it the best time we could have visited?
Every season has its different ups and downs. For the best scenery though, I wo… Read More
2017-11-23 21:56
Of course there are a lot of different churches in a lot of different styles, but one thing where French churches stand out is the circle of stained glass. It’s at least the most notic… Read More
2017-11-20 21:48
Past weekend I went to Paris, and more posts about that will follow, but for now I just want to show how pretty the views from the top of the Eiffel Tower are when you get there just as the… Read More
2017-11-14 18:03
Past weekend I had to spend some time in Rotterdam, the Netherlands’ second biggest city. It’s a really good example of two completely different cities to each other.
Amsterdam i… Read More
2017-11-05 14:50
Well, I’ve finally managed to set up a kind of blog for myself. This place will be used as a bit of a dump for my experiences, the different pictures I take, the places I go to. I&rsqu&hell…Read More
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