Last Friday I got on a train to Amsterdam to cycle around for the Light Festival with brotherdearest. Was a little apprehensive because last year the installations were disappointing, but this year's artworks totally made up for that; so many gorgeous designs! After two hours of cycling (and stopping to take photos) we took a short dinner break and ( Read more... )

Ten days ago I put up my final tweet and I've been trying to shift my focus to other social media instead. I do miss my fandom friends, most of them are still mostly active on Twitter. Just in case anyone is looking around for any interaction, I'm not only BeeLikeJ at Dreamwidth.org and Livejournal.com, but I keep a daily Dutch blog at Blogspot.com ( Read more... )

Last week I had my offical summerholiday and I spent three wonderful days at Vlieland, the smallest of the West Frisian Islands in the Wadden Sea up North. (I put up some pics at my Instagram). Of course the reason I had only a few vacationdays left is because I spent them all in New Zealand and Australia after the conference in Auckland back in ( Read more... )

Right after I got back home from visiting ArtZuid in Amsterdam back in September, I did a quick Instragram post with ten pics, meant to be an appetizer for a long picspam follow up on LiveJournal & DreamWidth a couple days later. But then work took over my life for a bit and the final preparations for the SPN_ReverseBang ate up a lot of time too ( Read more... )

Ahw, my final day in Haarlem, so I'm saying goodbye to the fancy Royal Suite *happy sigh*. For my last bit of vacation away from home, I'm meeting up with brotherdearest H. He often cycles from Amsterdam through Haarlem to get to the beach and he was happy to show me a couple of sights that I had missed on my first visit ( Read more... )

Went to London with my mom for a long weekend, made over 700 photos, here's a selection *grins*.

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Tower Bridge and the Shard at sunset, view from the Thames river, London. (Movies on the River, July 5th, 2019)

( Thursday, July 4th: Ferry from Hoek van Holland )

In December I went to Amsterdam, not only to pick up my awesome birthday cake, but also to visit the LightFestival 2018/2019 with brotherdearest. For this edition of the grand outdoor exhibition of light art installations, the route was set up all around the Herengracht (the third canal ring) and you can see it by foot, by bicycle or by boat. We ( Read more... )

Last Saturday I went to Amsterdam to visit brotherdearest and to do some bookshopping. I had planned this before I was aware it was the day of the Canal Parade of the GayPride week. I'm not a fan of big crowds, so I spent most of my day in the not so busy part of town with my brother, exploring the new subway (plus the archeological finds that were ( Read more... )

Last week I'd taken Friday morning off work to spend a day with my mom in Groningen, the town where I used to go to university back in the day;) Had not really been there since then, so when I got a coupon for my birthday from my sister in law for a Mini High Tea and there weren't any places in my own town that served it, mom and I decided to ( Read more... )

It's been a long weekend; not just because of Easter and an extra day off, but also because it was filled with adventures ( Read more... )