breaking and entering

A sad sad movie with the most handsome guy Jude Law. He just has something... But how can love hurt and not talkinga bout it, when you stop tlaking. And when all your stuff you just have worked for, is goen, because of stupid boys. And how to take advantage from another persons sadness, loneliness. Why?

the beautician and the beast

A distraction from what I was actually doing. HEnce, this movie does not have quality, and is not surprising, it is just liek a romantic comedy and it also has the same experience. Very stigmatic, about russia, about Amerika, but love survives, boehoehoe.

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marleen

groen

four roses

buckshot

de wensput

b&b in leersum

oslo

I went to Oslo as the first business trip for one of my projects. A consortium meeting. Which was very cosy.
the first night we had dinner in the middle of Oslo, on a terrace, nice weather.
the second night the organizers brought us with a boat to one of the fjord islands surrounding Oslo. We had a typical Norwegian dish, a potato with some vegetables and not that much for vegetarians. You could take a swim, which I didn't, and we played a game in which you had to throw something towards blocks that were standing in front of you opponents. liliane and I had a lot of fun, also because of the wine.
This time Oslo looked different from the first time I came there. then I visited Kim and later on went to trondheim to visit Gro. I met them in Australia and are still in contact. Then it was a white Oslo and now it was summer Oslo. Funny to see it again, see the restaurant where we had dinner, where we had a coffee, where we walked.

etang de longeau

thomas

burcht st oburg

After climbing a hill (byc ar) we came at this ruin of a burcht. It was crowded with families, and that explained all the children's thingies at some places.

altenahr

Altenahr is a kind of place you would never think of going if you don't accidentally end up there. We were driving just like that and apparently we though this was a nice place to stop,place our tent and walk around. There was a small castle on top of a hill, we walked around it, how entertaiing. THen we took the car and drove to the touristic centre of Altenahr. Mostly visited by elderly there was a large danicng bar where elderly coudl dance int he middle and tohers wathcing them, it looked sooo stupid. We had pizza and went bakc to the campingsite. It appeared it was close to a racing track for motorbikes and the whiole night we heard motorbikes runnnig over our tent, just at the other side of the A-river.

nancy

Why did we go to Nancy, just becasue. Like the rest of the holiday we just did it because it was possible. We didn't know anything about Nancy, about it being interesting or not, but we went ther. Parked the car and were looking for a tourist information office, because we also wanted to camp there somewhere. After a few chocolate croissants (finally) we asked an old lady where it was, adn it appeared we were very close. They gave us directions to the cammping site.
But next top that the tourist office was next to a square which ahd tohe most gigantic golden thingies. So we walked around, came in a park, entered a church, had a coffee (french capuchino is not good). and after some chopping went to the camping site.
THe samping site was quite empty when we arrived, but later that eveneing many dutch people with large caravans were using it to spend the night. We played some beach ball on a volleyball field, and read and had some dinner.

expo atomium

After dozens of pictures I now have finally seen it myself. It took a while to get there (we missed some signs, or belgians are not good at it). It is immense and great and just nice. Ther were some peopel playing music, nice music, happy mood.

recyclart festival in bruxelles

After sme wandering in the streets of Bruxelles we finally found this festival. It has to be said, the regualrs were there. smoking, doing acrobatic things, have dreadlocks or bold, and sit to do nothing, but above all drink beer. WE also sat there for a little while, but were not very entertained by the band that was playing, so we left after being there only 15 minutes.

hoge bomen in hanoi

This february I am going to Vietnam with my dad. So I decided to prepare myself for that and bought some boosk about Vietnam. This is one of them. It has a very factual character, but read easy enough to finish it, better than history books. It i snice to read something about the daily life, hwo people are still living with the war and how the different parts of Vietnam are different. This makes it easier to choose between what to do and what not to do.

extremely loud and incredibly close

A very sweet book about a boy who looses his father in 9/11. Actually it has two storylines intertwining and it took me a while to figure out how they were related. Because you read everything from the boys perspective, it is hard to make a good picture of reality. Sometimes I really felt that he was fantasysing. And he is also very naive, which is also sweet.

new: recipes on my blog

In my creativity I combine some ingredients I never thought I would. How to make the most brilliant meals with the few ingredients you have at home. Past two days I made the following:

rice with tomato fish and sperziebonen

boil the rice with salt
Cut one piece of garlic and 3 dried chillies into small pieces and stir it in a hapjespan or wok. Put one small can of tomatenpuree in it with 3 cans of water (first pour out the tomatepuree and then hold the same can under the tap three times and throw the water in the pan). Stir it. Add some kurkuma and coriandre powder and salt. Cut the fish (I used pangasiusfilet) in blocks of 2 by2 cm approximately. Dop the sperziebonen and cut them in half. Put the sperziebonen and fish in the pan, cover it with a lit (deksel) and let it steam for approzimately 20 minutes until fish an sperziebonen are cooked.

pasta with capsicum, dried tomato and yoghurt

boil the pasta with salt
Cut one piece of garlic and heat it with some olive oil in a frying pan. Cut the red capsicum in small pieces and fry it for 5 minutes. Cut four dried tomatoes and two dried chillies in small pieces and add it. Add some salt and fresh basil. wait untill the capsicum is soft enough.
Take a small boil with some yoghurt and mix it with some mayonaise.
Mix the pasta with the capsicum and yoghurt.

VENcE wins bandcontest

After being very tired of Oerol (had I said that before?) I had to go to the concert of Sebastiaan in the Toeter. It was the final of the bandcontest Groningen and couldn't miss this last episode as being their true groupie from the moment I heard them for the first time.
They played like maniacs, sweat all over, cabaret in between, one more cup of coffee, new songs and the voicemail of Sebastiaan was clear: they won. Now they can record a demo which will be promoted which will hopefully give them some more gigs and more people can enjoy their music!

le vagabond - rotterdam

This is a cafe on the nieuwe binnenweg in Rotterdam, close to Rotown. Nice, brown cafe. We (Roos and I) arrived late on the graduation party of Salome. Almost all her friends had left already, because they had to take the last train to Amsterdam. I felt stared at, by all the locals of Rotterdam that were not used to fresh blood and different looks. I chatted with some left-overs, and after they had left, the locals started talking to us. We went home

productiehuis 'n Meeuw - Metamorfose

After being so tired of the Oerol weekend, I did not have the energy to tell something about the most fabulous show I have seen in months. Now is the time!
A group of approximately 15 children aged between 15 and 20 manipulated me into a fascination for 60 minutes. It was incredibly well directed, acted, sung and performed. The theme of oerol was "sterke verhalen" and this group had all ancient greek mythical figures in it. The story of each of them was followed by another and all were interacting in each story. Do I make sense? Just, if you can, try to watch this show, it is great!

Greetje Bijma - Campagne Vocale

At festival Etcetera we went to a musical story in the armandomuseum. She could do alot with her voice slash mouth. A perfect resemblance of birdsounds, a door opening, insect sounds in a forest. The story was hard to follow, but this woman surely has a voice to be treated as a precious treasure.

Theaterfestival Etcetera

Amersfoort, always a stop when going from Delft to Groningen or vice versa. I do not know this city that well, but it was our destination this sunday. Together with my parents and sister we went to the theatre festival, in doubt when and where exactly it woudl take place. The lievevrouwenkerkhof was the site for a parade like set-up with small cabins in which short theatre cabaret acts were performed. In the middle was a bar with on top the on the move big band performing as the sunday morning concert. I was in a passive mood, hence a poem read to me in a caravan was too much and only Annet and Yvonne attended.
In the afternoon the sun was shining and we had lunch outside. It's a cosy festival, but hard to say something about; we had to leave at 14.30hrs.