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... )

If you've been following me for a while, you may remember my visits to the big Flowersculpture Parade in Zundert in 2016 and last year; a long train- and bustrip to the South of the Netherlands that takes about three hours. This year I decided to explore two smaller events nearby; these are only a 50 minute busride away from my town! I have one ( Read more... )

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(A remix by Marius KC based on original Sammy!video by Sarah K:)

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This was a pretty good year for me. I made a couple of cool trips, hung out with friends and met new people. Here's a picspam that ticks all those boxes: in September I traveled to the South of the Netherlands for the Corso in Zundert, a yearly flower sculpture parade. (I visited it in 2016 as well:) This year I met up there with longtime LJ friend ( Read more... )

Another favorite challenge: fanmix/CD covers! In the past I have done a few of these for fandom projects with music chosen by authors I collaborated with. This time I went through my own archives of (old) mixtapes/CDs after picking my objects of affection ( Read more... )

Heh, it seems all I do at LJ these days is post picspams. I plan to return to regular browsing and commenting and updating tomorrow. With my calf still healing from that whiplash, I've been feeling very blah and not up for anything after getting home from work (when I finally have managed to climb the stairs up to my apartment) *sighs ( Read more... )

So. London. I got home on Sunday and had planned to do a picspam the next day, but then I got a massive attack of snot and the barking cough, so I had to take it slowly. But I finally managed to sort out my photos; how did I make so many in only two days? I narrowed it down to 62 (...) plus a video of Big Ben:

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Hey, remember that watch-list I made of Jeffrey Dean Morgan interviews on the LateLateShow with Craig Ferguson? This morning I found a clip of his most recent appearance with the new host, the lovely James Corden. Guess what? James couldn't stop himself flirting either. This. Man.

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