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Heading for Amsterdam

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Hello, I am on my way to Amsterdam. First I am drinking a beer with my father in Nieuwegein and after I go to visit masha in Amsterdam. Tomorrow it will be Queens day and this will be my first Queensday in my life in Amsterdam (me as a anti-royalist) . Normally I would no go there, but now I am curious to see how it will be. I am lucky I am going now to Amsterdam and not tomorrow morning. Just have to arrange I do not have to go back tomorrow evening, because that will be disaester.

I all wish you all a nice evening !

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Busy, busy , busy and a new camera :-)

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

Yes dear viewers I am very busy these days with 1000 things, but it feels good, so yes I did had no time to update my blog. I wanted to write about the statics of this website, but you are probaly not interested and I forgive you that.

Last Saturday I bought my new camera a new Nikon D60 with a 18-105mm lens and the first results are satisfying me a lot. april2009-068 So we will continue with practising, as I do with my poetry, here the newest one:

Vivre

Il faut vivre car la vie
est finit si vite qu’on
ne peut pas l’imaginer.

Vivre c’est respirer,
vivre c’est rêver,
vivre c’est d’avoir espoir.

Je suis heureux que je puisse
vivre, mais je sais que ce n’est pas éternel.
C’est pour ça que j’essaie de vivre avec de la joie.

Maassluis (NL), le 25 avril 2009

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20/04/2009: Tadaaaa: it is spring !

Monday, April 20th, 2009

So, today it is monday and I am a bit tired and my bike is still broken. I had a wonderfull weekend wish more of these things will come. The Keukenhof was great and very beautifull, and of course I wrote a poem, I go to be very short, I am busy these days so here the poem:

Ils peuvent essayer, mais ils n’arrivent pas

Le bateau navigue vers l’autre coté et ta chère devient
au long du distance de plus en plus petit
jusqu’au moment qu’elle disparaît de ton vue.

Les vagues essaie de lui oublier,
le vent essaie de disparaître
sa voix et la nuit sa figure

Partir c’est mourir un peu et
la distance, les vagues, le vent
et la nuit te font mourir un peu.

Heureusement il y a le cœur, car le cœur
n’oublie jamais ta chère, même si
distance, vagues, vent et la nuit l’essaieront.

Amsterdam, le 19 avril 2009

They can try, but they do not succeed

The boat sails away to the other side and your love one becomes
along distance smaller and smaller
until the moment that she disappears from your sight.

The waves try to forget her,
the wind tries to disappear
her voice and her appearance

Leaving is dying a bit and
the distance, the waves, the wind
and the night try to let you dying a bit.

Fortunately there is the heart,
because the heart never forgets your love,
even-if distance, waves and wind will try to do so.

Amsterdam, 19th April 2009

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17/04/2009: Tomorrow : Keukenhof !!!

Friday, April 17th, 2009

Tomorrow I go to visit the Keukenhof, if I have to believe it one of the most photographed spot in the world. This is the second time I go there and we will see, simply see and have a nice day

So do not disturb me, have nice day tomorrow as well and Ciao !

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14/04/2009:My own poetry book now available!

Tuesday, April 14th, 2009

$Le livre De Pays-Bas au travers de l\'Europe$

Yes, wow, you sometimes can make things happen and I did it. After some hard work yesterday you can now buy my poetry in book form, see the banners above !

At this moment I am very busy, so I cannot write a long blog, but I want to inform you that I had a wonderfull weekend and birthday , thank for these who made that happen!

Wish you a nice evening and buy my book I would say

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Test easter blog

Monday, April 13th, 2009

april2009-0241

Yes this is a test! I am starting now with wordpress as blog environment

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08/04/2009: Sur l’autoroute 31

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009

Le 31 j’ai pris souvent avec mes parents,
chaque été vers le soleil quand
j’étais enfant.

C’était l’entrée de la France
et la lumière semblait différente
de mon pays plat.

Aujourd’hui je croise la frontière avec 100 km à l’heure
et la lumière n’est plus différente et je vois
que je suis devenu adulte.

Bettembourg (LUX)- Metz (F), le 3 avril 2009

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05/04/2009: De retour from Metz / Verdun (France)

Sunday, April 5th, 2009

I just returned from Metz and Verdun in France where I spend a nice weekend with my family. First I went to visit Gerald, a client from me, in Luxembourg and that was really nice to see the other side !

With Gerald I went to Metz, the capital of the region Lorraine, where he lives and there we drank a beer together and I got two bottles of French liquor: “Poire” and “Mirabelle” home made . How I can complaint with such good client ? After I was with my family and we stayed in a hotel, but first we made Metz “unsafe”. On Saturday we had a city tour and there was time for doing shopping. I made some nice pictures of the beautiful things I saw and I have to admit: Metz est belle !!! (=Metz is beautiful).

In the evening we had a dinner in Coin-les-Cuvry, which is near Metz, because there we had a dinner with a French family which my family knows since a long time. In the sixties my grandparents went with their children (my father, uncles etc.) to a SNCF (=French railways) camping in Saint-Raphaël (Côte d’Azur). That ‘s the reason why we had this French/Dutch re-union.

On Sunday I went with my father to the battlefields of the First World War in Verdun. They call Verdun “the Stalingrad of France”, in a couple of months 300.000 soldiers were killed. We went to visit the ossuary of Douamont and that was very impressive to see. After the battlefields of Verdun we went back via Orval in Belgium (yes of that beer) back to the Netherlands.

I can conclude that I passed a very nice / interesting weekend with a lot of fun! Photos you can view here: Metz 3-5th April 2009

In Metz by the way I bought some French poetry:
-from Rimbaud I bought “Poésies complètes”
-from Paul Verlaine (who is from Metz) I bought “Poesies”
-from Jacques Prévert I bought “Fatras”.

and that for 13 euro ‘s !!! My personal favourit is Prévert, so I finish now with one of him, mine will follow later :

Est-ce passe-temps?

Et-ce passe-temps d’écrire
est-ce passe-temps de rêver
cette page
était blanche
il y a quelques secondes
Une minute
ne s’est pas encore écoulée
Maintenant voilà qui est fait

Jacques Prévert

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