Black Cat

I love cats, they are arrogant and very self aware, this one is looking at me with a look, 'You can't do me anyting'. This cat was extreamly releaxed and hotaine.

Le Coffee at Karel V

Time for a coffee at Karel the V hotel :)

Ingrid Siliakus

Made by paper artist Ingrid Siliakus...

The new food hype

The cupcake is out, the Macaron has arrived. It's the new food hype. Nice, but a little bit over-rated cookie by my opinion.

Saint Catherine II

Almost the same picture of Saint Catherine, but a little bit nicer weather.

Tree

Scray tree...for the moment, soon it will bloom like all the others!

Black Mill

A quick shot of the Mill yesterday as I passed by..

Le Soup

Hmm I would like a The Soup from La France :)

Exposition

An exposition of Willem Diepraam, looked nice, though it were pictures about nothing really....

Harbor Street

I pass by this street where I live..

Key chain

I have a new key chain! As you can see my life is really full with all kinds of interesting events :)

Selection of wines

A wonderfull selection of flavored wines: Castagne, Poires, Mures, Melon, Cerises, Peche and Noce. The Castagne is very good.

The end of the world

Funny, this building is called 'building the end of the world' Must have been named a hundred years ago. What do you think; is the end of the world is near?

Church

Shot of the St. Anthony church - no further comments - but that it it's a lovely day.

The Sun!

I have to do it, this picture is nothing particular, but one thing, the sun is back!
Hurray, it is as if spring is starting, it has been dark and grey for so long that the coming of the sun is reason for wistheling :)

Love is the fundament

In the very old days, up to 1700, rough guess, it was the custom to give a house a plaque or commemorative stone. This stone had all kinds of motives, artifacts, the owner’s occupation, religious themes and so on. This one in particular wants to say that love is the fundament of life or family life.

There is a group which works to maintain and restore the surviving stones. Restoring is to paint them back into the original colors since they were always brightly painted. I have the evidence that they actually do this. In June 2009 I pictured this same stone.. See the difference.

The stone before..

Very very old

Very very very old church door, imagon what this door has seen pass through!

Food assorti

A shot taken at the local deli, all looks good!

Girl in museum

A girl in a museum :)

Mind your head

Living in an old town can be lovely. The historic houses, scenes and the presence of the past everywhere around you. However in the past people used to be much smaller; notable at these stairs in a restaurant, the sign is a necessity.

Flag

Somebody did put out the flag yesterday. There are offical rules when you may flag or not. We may do it on days when somebody of the Royal Familie has their birthday. Or when there is a National day. It was neither of both, so somebody was probably just feeling patriotic...

We have a George Clooney!!

My bosses at work are 'bourgondic' which can not really be translated to English, but it means something like 'to dine heartly'. I means of coffee is that we drink Nespresso since we moved to the new office... hurray!!
This is my colleaugue showing the selection box.

Rubens exposition

Currently there is an exposition in the Hermitage of Amsterdam, Rubens, Van Eijk and Jordeans. It was a fabulous experience! I seen paintings which I seen before in the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg.


Discussing art...


An Ecco Homo as I have never seen before. This painting never been in a church but belonged to a private collection.


Inside the musuem, the Hermitage of Amsterdam is very big, but only a part is used for exhibtions.