Goodbye

After almost 5 years of blogging I have come to close my blog. It has been part of my daily ritual to select a picture and upload it. I enjoyed it very much including reading the comments and to follow other bloggers. Also the little group of Dutch bloggers meetings was nice to experience. But the recent months I have come to a point where I became engaged in other activities and changed interest.
Therefore I wish all other Dialy Photo bloggers the best, thanks for the comments and good luck blogging!

Cheers from Marcel

Le bike

The bikes in the front are not so different, but in the back there are four different bikes. One of them caught my attention, the orange bike appeard to be a real 'Holland bike' orange colours with the national vlag.

Summer

It is summer, but not that much, behind the clouds the sun shines I know. We had a few days sun and since yesterday a clouded sky again. But it doesn't matters, each day of sun is one!

Finally graduated!!

Hello fellow bloggers, it has been a while since my last post.
I have been very busy with graduation from a parttime study,
that I completely forgot about posting on Daily.
After 6 years I finally can put MSc in fornt of my name.
This means I have plenty of time again for idol activities
like posting pictures on my blog. :) ....

Last shot of snow

My last shot of the snow, it is predicted that this weekend is the last weekend with cold weather, then, the spring will start!! So predict the weathermen.

Woerden by night

Awesome night shot of Woerden centr by JK Photography.

Strange picture

The pictures I post on my blog are all made with my Iphone. Since I have an Iphone I hardly use my camera.  But this picture is weird: I never made this shot, yet it is in my photo folder... strange, I never seen this, it are Chinese dragons, I haven't been here.. That shoudn't be possible right?

Veere sea view

I am working in Goes this week, close to Goes is a small historic town called Veere. It is a beautiful town, this is a shot of the view of the sea.

A heron waiting for fish

Two guys are fishing in city-moat, patiently observed by a heron. In my perception most of the semi-wild animals who share our living space seem to be ignorant of human presence, but now the heron was focused on the hands of the fisherman. They did catch a pike, but they put it back in the moat. To the dismay of the heron I recon.

The greyhound mill in the snow

The snow will be gone for this year, I expect, so this will be my last picture of Woerden in the snow.

Moorkop

Somebody is having his birthday at the office, time for a Dutch? treat; a Moorkop, choux pastry filled with cream, topped with chocolate and cream on top.

The princes

A shot of the carneval princes, I konw the main prince vaguely from my childhood in Harmelen, but I can't place him actually.

For Carneval

Woerden is not big on Carneval, I believe it is not celebrated, but in Harmelen they do, that is the town bordering Woerden. It's my home town so I have been down there so see how things were going.

Ad

Ad from one of our newspapers, it says Good People and what good people are supposed to do and think. Personally I find the add a bit cavil/ carp. It is soaked in political correct messages. 

Old city

At the exhibition on Woerden in the .. I spotted a photo of the city of Woerden about 60 years ago. In those days the city was more or less still within the city-moat. Now a days the city has grown about 5 to 6 times it size. But the skyline has always remained the same though. I recognize it immediately.

Snow gone

Woerden in the snow, but the snow is gone now...  Back from a long week in the UK!

The former monastery

Quick shot of the former monastery across from the AH where I did some breakfast shopping (cheese union crisps).

Snow

Yes! We have snow and freezing weather. I love this type of weather. It gave the traffic yesterday a real nuisance, The Netherlands had about 1000km traffic jam, which was a new record.

Want new car

I think it's time for a new car... I took this shot when I worked for a caterer who catered for the new years party at the Aston Martin dealer. We were a bit nervous to cater for such a posh public, but the atmosphere was really releaxed and friendly. Old money is more educated then new money I guess. The good thing is we are invited to do much more catering for them, they really liked our food :)

Winter in Woerden

On an icy morning at the Singel (canal) of Woerden....

Museum in a museum

Tony  has won! It's a miniature museum in a museum :)

Museum?

Question: is this foto taken during a visit to the museum?

Ice skating

It has been a warm winter this year, so not much ice skating.. on natural ice that is. Woerden als has a small ice skating stall in the square.

Start with a coffee

The new year starts with a coffiee at the local coffee bar... :) This bar has a banister where you can look down at the bar.