On Sunday September 1st, the third day of my long weekend in the South of the Netherlands, it was finaly time for the main event: Bloemencorso Zundert 2024! (More about its history and the preparations for this event in my previous post. [ LJ

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The goal of my long visit to the South of the Netherlands was the Bloemencorso in Zundert; a yearly parade of flowerfloats. These are organised all over the Netherlands, but Zundert is the oldest (since 1936!) and biggest corso (20 floats) every first Sunday in September. Every neighbourhood (or hamlet) of Zundert has been working for months to ( Read more... )

For my most recent long weekend off, I started planning in April when tickets for the Flowerparade in the small town of Zundert went on sale; I've been to this yearly festive event before (in 2016 [ LJ and 2018 [ LJ] -it's on every first Sunday of September-, but it's a long daytrip from where I live, so this time I wanted to treat myself to a hotel ( Read more... )

Hey hello y'all, I haven't done a proper post in a while (even though I did keep my Booklist up to date ( Read more... )

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... )

Been back to work for a week already since my vacation and as always I'm surprised how fast the routine sinks in again and I forgot all the good intentions about reordering my daily life after traveling, haha. Oh well, I'm a human of habits I guess. Here's the second part of my short trip to the island Ameland, these are the final two days in which ( Read more... )

Yesterday I came home from a lovely four day trip to one of the Wadden Islands up in the North of the Netherlands: Ameland. It's an hour by train and half an hour by bus plus another 50 minutes by ferry, so just enough travel to make if feel like a true vacation:-) I had booked a fancy suite in a 'boutique' hotel with 2 (two!) rain showers and a ( 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... )

Had quite a busy few weeks, so it took a while to sort through my photos, but here it finally is: the last picspam of my hoteltrip to Doetinchem. On the second day of my visit, I explored the city. As it happens, on top of all the regular sights, there was a creative street exposition of World Street Painting! I also discovered one of the awesomest ( Read more... )

If you follow me on Twitter you may already know that from Oct. 1st I will have a permanent position on the geodata project I love so much! The past few weeks were particularly stressful because I was about to reach the maximum on the temporary contract I've been working on for the past 5,5 years, pfff. The option of steady jobs on the project came ( Read more... )