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Archive for June, 2009
Animals…
Tuesday, June 30th, 2009
Dutch TV about Serbia
Wednesday, June 24th, 2009I saw the documentary from Paul Rosenmöller (former head of the Dutch Green Left party) “the borders of Europe ” and the last episode was about the Balkans. David Jan Godfried journalist in Belgrado wrote a nice blog about it, please look here.Unfortunately it is only in Dutch
, but the moral of the story is: this documentary (link) was to narrow minded, to Anti Serbian.
It was about Bosnia/ Slovenia and Kosovo and with Kosovo you know there will be problems when you make a TV-documentary. It was stated that North Kosovo is the most criminal part of Europe, and yes in Northern Kosovo that is where the Serbs live. Hard-line Serbs were interviewed…. Come on, that is too easy.
The Serbs I know are just like you and me: they care about life, the latest gadgets, love, work, study, friends, family and they are far from nationalistic. Yes they are proud of their country, like you and me dear viewer (I am less and less proud I am coming from the Netherlands, but I am proud that I come from Europe).
Of course Rosenmöller could not interview a single ordinary Serb, which I met in dozens last month. His party, which should support peace, voted in favor of the NATO bombardments in 1999 on Serbia. You could travel across the borders of Europe, because of my tax money and make such kind of television, because this is the Netherlands.
I travelled along the borders of Europe and in two weeks I will do it again, with my own money, with the people I like and I will make my own judgment about it, I don’t need a highly subsidized program for that and especially not presented by a “salon socialist”.
I had discussions with my Serbian friends about the Dutch position against Serbia and I can tell you it is hard to explain the Dutch point of view in Serbia: at this moment the Netherlands is the only country (yes ok, with the support of Belgium) which blocks Serbia to join the SAA (Stabilisation and Association Agreements). The Netherlands blocks it, because they want first Ratko Mladic and Goran Hadžić in The Hague and I told my Serbian friends that I think this is only because of the Dutch role in Srebrenica. BUT what we forget is the ethnic cleansing of Serbs in Croatia, Bosnia and Kosovo, think about that. And the innocent victims of the Nato campaign in 1999. In a war both sides commit crimes, never forget that.
I will not dispute the role of the Dutch army in Srebrenica, because then I can write pages full, but it is ridiculous that my government make Serbia a hostage of two men. These kinds of TV-documentaries does not help to have a better image about Serbia, I hope I can….
One month ago
Tuesday, June 23rd, 2009Exactly one month ago I had that little bus accident in Orbtici, Bosnia Herzegovina (Republika Srpska) and I do not want to be sentimental , no not at all 
Just want to share a link with you from the Radio-Televizija Republike Srpske
Look between the minutes 22:59 and 23:15… Wow 16 seconds !
Have a nice evening !
Nuages qui emmènent mes rêves
Saturday, June 20th, 2009Sur mon dos je me repose dans le gazon
dans la pause du travail au midi.
Le soleil brille, le vent souffle et
je regarde les nuages qui passent.
Par le vent ils seront emmenés vers des pays
inconnu en emmenant mes rêves.
Une goutte tombe du ciel sur mon œil
et je ne sais pas si je pleure ou si je rêve.
Je veux garder mes rêves de la vie,
de l’amour et du futur.
Ça semble que je ne peux rien faire contre car
les nuages qui passent emmènent mes rêves.
Ça va comme ça, comme toujours
et rêves resteront rêves, s’ils sont emmener ou pas.
Le soleil, le vent et le temps les emmènent
vers l’éternité.
‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), le 19 juin 2009
Flying with a Fokker F50 from the royal dutch air force
Thursday, June 18th, 2009Yesterday it was a familly day at the airforce base Gilze Rijen and I was invinted by my mother who works there. She arranged that I could join a flight with an F50 and that was really nice: enough space for your legs, no annoying security checks and a good view, because we did not fly that high. We flew above Zeeland and Rotterdam, it took one hour. Pictures I will put soon on my website of course, but here are some.
Sleep well!
En attendant
Tuesday, June 16th, 2009Le temps passe en attendant quelque chose.
Malheureusement on doit attendre beaucoup
dans la vie, c’est presque que c’est pour ennuyer la vie.
Aujourd’hui j’ai attendu mon destin dans le train
en passant des paysages, rivières et villes
et je suis y arrivée finalement.
Quand le train m’a déposé sur un quai vide,
j’ai marché vers le bateau qui doit
m’emmener vers l’autre coté.
Par surprise tu m’as embrassé quand j’ai attendu le bateau
et tu m’as accompagné vers l’autre coté.
Ce n’était plus attendre, c’était l’amour.
Amsterdam (NL), le 13 juin 2009
Ce que les cygnes montrent aux humains
Saturday, June 13th, 2009Le résultat de leur amour est accomplit
car ils ont donné
la vie aux trois bébés.
Tous les trois ils se nagent
maintenant au lac
accompagnée par leurs fières parents.
Leur amour continuera
et ils le donnent maintenant aussi
aux leur enfants.
La vie hectique des humains autour le lac continuera,
comme il y a rien changé, mais ces cygnes
ont montré que le vrai amour existe.
‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), le 11 juin 2009
What swans shows humans
The result of their love is finished
because they give
life to three babies
Every three they swim
now in the lake
accompanied by their proud parents.
Their love will continue
and they are now also giving it
to their children.
The hectic life of humans around the lake will continue
as there is nothing changed, but the swans
have shown that true love exists.
‘s-Hertogenbosch (NL), 11th June 2009
Minsk-Belarus
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009Hello everybody,
I go the 3th of July to Minsk with Masha. We have a stopover in Prague for 1 day and we will stay of course by Lars. A day later the plane of Czech airlines will bring us to Minsk in Belarus. The tickets are booked, my free days arranged at work and now it is only waiting for my visa. The 15th of July I will return to Prague, with again a visit to Lars.
I am looking forward to this trip, it will be the third time this year that I will visit a country where I have never been (other countries were Bosnia Herzegovina and Montenegro), so that is not bad at all 
But what is even even better is that this time I will be not alone, because I will be Masha
Minsk: the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit, from: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Belarus-Minsk-Cathedral_of_Holy_Spirit-3.jpg
Balkan pictures
Thursday, June 4th, 2009I made a great effort this evening, but they are online, look here:
http://www.fabian-vendrig.eu/english/photo.html
Pozdrav,
Fabian
Tito ‘s railway
Thursday, June 4th, 2009Last monday I traveled from Kraljevo (Serbia) to Podgorica (Montenegro) by train on one of the most scenic railways in Europe. The railway Belgrade-Bar was planned and created by Tito, who wanted a railway line form Belgrade to the Adriatic coast and he succeeded…
Here a poem….now I go to sleep and dream about it, I am back in the Netherlands…
Une voie que je n’ai pas rêvé
De Beograd a Bar Tito voulait
créer un chemin de fer et il a eu succès.
Les voies croisent des rivières
et la vue est superbe.
Le paysage change au chaque virage
et au fin des nombreux tunnels.
Le paysage du Balkan semble de disparaitre
et être remplace lentement par le paysage de la cote Adriatique.
C’est une voie ferrée que je ne pouvais pas rêver
car c’est trop belle, trop magnifique.
C’est une voyage que je n’ai jamais eu dans mes rêves,
mais aujourd’hui’ hui le voyage n’ est pas une rêve, mais réalité.
Pozega (SRB)-Podgorica (MNE), le 1er juin 2009