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Fun facts about the Netherlands according to the U.S.

Amsterdam… the city of crime, drugs and anarchy:

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And we apparently also kill our elderly Dutch people when they go to the hosipital because of of budget cuts in the health system…

Hmm, I guess my grandmother is getting a special bracelet for her birthday this year… Just in [...]

The Healthy Nerd

Today on my Facebook wall I saw this shared photo:

The first thing I thought was, are you f***ing kidding me? Can this be true? So, using some logical keywords in google I tried to find out. And soon I found this:

 

Really?? Using someones elses photo in a completely different [...]

To gossip or not to gossip

Keep this philosophy in mind the next time you either hear some gossip, or are about to repeat a rumour.

In ancient Greece (469 – 399 BC) Socrates was widely lauded for his wisdom. One day the great philosopher came upon an acquaintance who ran up to him excitedly and said, ‘Socrates, do you [...]

I feel better!

 

“Life sometimes seems to get the best of you Like everything just brings you down Just when you think There’s nothing you can do A friendly face will bring you around

And you’ll feel better You’ll feel better You’ll feel better Better Better than before You’ll feel better Much [...]

Now you’re just somebody that I used to know

Gotye is back!! (and he gave me goosebumps with this song) Awesome!

Now and then I think of when we were together Like when you said you felt so happy you could die Told myself that you were right for me But felt so lonely in your company But that was love and it’s [...]

Dutch Clown Day

Today is the annual Dutch ‘Clown Day’, so I’m going to share a very appropriate song to celebrate this day:

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I AM

Seeing this commercial makes me want to buy a Nikon.

Fantastic choice in music!

 

Radical Face — Welcome home, son

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Let’s go on a trip!

Last weekend we bought mountainbikes, so it’s time to explore the area around this little town we live in! (click on the photo’s for bigger versions)

The bikes. female version (left) vs. male version (right)

What happens when you spot a dark shape next to the road? BRAKE!!! [...]

Let’s go back to the seventies!

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New photo’s!

 

I finally added some new photos to my gallery again!

Susan’s photography

 

 

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Be prepared..

Today on the radio: the government telling people to make a survival package so they are prepared in case a disaster happens and you will be left without water and electricity.

What should be in this package according to this advertisement?

water batteries radio candles cheese

I guess it’s typical Dutch to put cheese [...]

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I want to live in a treehouse.

 

Why?

Because they are awesome.

 

http://fuckyeahtreehouses.tumblr.com

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37 Frames : Great Tohoku Earthquake & Tsunami 2011 Japan

Let me start from our start, create an image of a journey with a purpose. To remind the world that a headline one day replaced with another the next, is still a life for someone. That the world will not forget and is thinking of Japan and in turn is thanked [...]

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Starling cloud

The air above the city of Utrecht in the Netherlands is currently dominated by this enormous cloud of more than 60.000 Starlings (Sturnus vulgaris). The cloud has reached this size because more and more smaller clouds of Starlings come together to perform together It’s always amazing to see the fluidity in the movements of [...]

Do you know what you’re fighting for?

(watch it in full screen!)

Bye, bye, bye, bye…

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I’ve got a feeder for you to perch on

Sometimes it’s a bit crowded in our little Dutch garden:

European Greenfinch Chaffinch House Sparrow Eurasian Jay Great Tit Fieldfare Crow Jackdaw Blue Tit Black-headed Gull Robin Collared Dove Coal Tit Magpie Short-toed Treecreeper Willow Tit Winter Wren Wood Pigeon Starling Blackbird Dunnock Goshawk Long-eared owl

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Twas the night before Christmas…

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,

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