golden tulip centre

A huge tower just behind the train station of Antwerp Central. The rooms reminded me of the rooms in Houten, same kind of style and luxury mark. A lot of African and Chinese people here, probably because it is close to the diamant area of Antwerp; when walking there the next day it was as if I was somewhere else; Also a lot of Amish people and Indian people walking around.

kassa4

Cafe where we also went when Fleur and I were in Antwerp the day before we went to India. You can still smoke in cafes! It was nice to catch up with Timothy again in this kind of art-cafe.

de ruif

I met with Roel and Kitty for some food on one of the nights I hd to stay over in Delft. We wanted to go to the kleine griek, but as their boat terrace was full already we went to de Ruif boats terrace instead. I had some thing with a lot of cheese, not particularly good, but it was food.

de groene weide

A cafe near the noorderplantsoen. We met with some colleagues to do board games. We did weerwolven and carcassonne. I would not meet here again, though I think for groups it is a nice place where you can also have a some food.

brigitte kaandorp

Finally I saw this comedienne live! Her show was like her shows in the good old days and I enjoyed very much! The theater wasn't that nice though.

opera

Johanneke and I wanted to have a cheese fondue again. We alrady had one at brussels lof and kult, were planning on going to boven Jan, but that was full. On our way to het zwarte schaap, who has cheese fondue as well, we came across this restaurant in the poelestraat. Not many people there, the fondue wasn't that interesting.

mammoth

Slow and subtle movie of the same director as Fucking Amal. He shows in a painfull way how the west destroys the east even more, how peopl make decisiions in their life and think they can't chnage it. How we are detmerined to do something later, when the time is there, when I am older, but in the end we never do it. It shows the limitations of the world today.

Wall-E

Mbaye African Dancing

In the Sionskerk there was a workshop on African Dancing tought by a Senegalese person Mbaye (something). So much energy, with singing, and I just had to go, made fool of myself when doing the solo. But I loved it, also the teacher and the drum player.

power yoga groningen

As I did yoga in Dusseldorf, I decided to try it in Groningen as well. I did the Ashtanga course, but am not that enthusiastic about it yet. I will try several other courses, as they have a whole scala. Pilates, Anasura yoga, poweryoga, let's see...

Afrikaanse Dans Lily Maarsingh

I started a course African Dancing from Lily Maarsingh. FLeur did it last year, but I didn't have time then. Now I could finally do it and I love it! So active, big, expressive.

De witte aap

Because the tiki bar wsa closed we had to move to the only cafe in the witte de with that was open. Becuase it was the only one, it was very busy. I could catch up with Thomas and had a chat with Jason. Cafe is not that special.

2 many djs

I was already ready to go to sleep, but the djs managed to get me out of my dip. I danced for 2 hours on their bootleg music mix. I felt sorry for the dj that had to do after it, as many people were going away.

runaway jury

Motel Mosaique

A festival for the alternative music scene. All bands that come in Vera will also come to MOtel Mosaique (or the other way around). In the afternoon it is possible to go to the 3voor12 tent, to listen to 20 minute snippets of the artists that will perform that evening. I saw Jon Hopkins, handsome dj, and Mocky, which nearly missed the boat of being a nice performance. Later I also saw BLK JKS, Loney Dear and Hjaltalin. A very good selection! I met a lot of people I still recognized from Delft, strange to see them again.

loney dear

A bit psychedelic performance with a lot of back light which made all the musicions just silhouettes. The music was wonderfull, almost like a fairytale, and it made me very peacefull. It was in the big room in de Doelen, it was nearly full, I was happy to sit.

hjaltalin

Very good music from Iceland! The instruments were special, but I just love it. A violin that was played by a concentrated violin player. The fagot musician was a woman, what a heavy instrument that is! And the singer also was funny and just made the atmosphere very good in Lantaren/Venster.

blk jks

South African band that made very nice rock music. I was actually hoping for the real African sound, but that was naive. They had a lot of breaks, changed the beat, which made it hard to dance on it anyway. This was in the Watt, what used to be nighttown.