hotel du commerce

It was busy in Fecamp. It is a small sea town with a rock shore with falaise parts in it as well. We had a beer on the terrace and then had to find a place to sleep. After some hotels we came to this one, which had a room without a shower for a reasonable price. We were too late for the breakfast the next morning, which was a pity, but the owner of the hotel was very friendly and parked my car. Probably because he didn't trust me with it in his backyard.

restaurant in st Omer

Because the rain was falling, we didn't want to continue walking anymore. We ended up in one of the few restaurants of st. Omer, a very little town. We both had the got chees salad and a cafe au lait and then decided to talk the same road back, as rain still didn't stop.

forgetting sarah marshall

An absurd movie, you have to be in the mood to watch it. It tells about a loser who loses his girlfriend, his girlfriend acts in Crime Scene series. They both meet in Hawai where a new love starts. The loser makes a dracula musical, because that is his dream.

le grand cerf

After some 6 hours of driving we arrived in neufchatel-en-bray just after 11. The key was placed just behing the board, which allowed us to enter the family hotel. Hearing the snoring of wone of our neighbours, made sure that we were not alone in this hotel. We went to the local kebba place to get some beers to start our small holiday properly.

le normandie

On our last night in Normandy we staid at the shore of the Seine in Caudebec-en-caux. A sweet hotel, with a completely pink hotel room. Breakfast was good. The village appeared to have some party of the centuries ago in big cloths, long hair and beards all curled up. When we sat at the locla bar for a beer, both too numb to talk anymore, the local youth also found place there. It was veyr interesting having two girls sitting on their terrace, one fo themost interestng things that has happened in weeks I suppose.

golf hotel

In Clecy we ended up in this Golf hotel in Dirty dancing setting. We had to giggle about the "patrick swayze" of the hotel, we just ordered the day menu and had a bottle of white wine together. People at the back appeared to be Dutch, a lady with sun bathing teint, a man who just had the whole bottle of red wine because his wife was the bob. After we made them aware we were not 18 year olds on the exam break, but hard working women with some money, on everything we said they said we had start playing golf. Yeah right, it is very good for your network, meet a lot of peopl, blabla. We had great fun though

definitely. maybe

Maybe I have posted about this movie before. I know I have seen the whole movie, but now I just watched the end. Sweet movie.

anders

I had dinner with Annalily in this quite little restaurant that is on the shore of the canal. We couldn't sit outside anymore, but inside was a nice ambaince. Instead of teh salmon we had the tuna, which was very well prepared.

Glasmuseum

For one of my projects I spent a few days in het Glasmuseum in Leerdam. THey also have Glasblazerij just across the small canal. I never had such a carvingto find out more about glas, but it is quite interesting really. And the glas is really nice.

hotel lucullus

one night in Leerdam, one night in the only hotel of Leerdam; hotel Lucullus. I would never go here again, although it was reasonable. THey try to be a grand cafe, but in the end it is really just a buurtcafe. The room had the worst beds, but the bathroom looked nice. The shower was not ideal though.

Sonny Boy

Nice book based on real facts about a family in World War 2. Cultural differences and a disaster on the background. I couldn't really feel empathy with any of the characters, and you feel like an observer than that you get absorbed in hte story

the happening

strange and quite cruel movie. A movie that makes you think of what on earth we are doing on earth and why we are doing thethings we are doing. Is this really going somewhere?

schaduw van de wind - carlos ruiz zafon

Each book with such a tremendous plot and superb storyline deserves to be read by everyone. The more than 500 pages are far from sufficient, as you want to read more, know more about all the characters that play a part in this book.

johan noorloos yoga workshop

A great ashtanga yoga workshop by this yoga teacher from amsterdam. the poweryoga centgre I am currently following power yoga lessons, doesn't have a proper Ashtanga yoga lesson. I really miss this kind of yoga in Groningen! We also did a vipassana meditation after it, which might be something I will do more in the future.

bridget jones - the edge of reason

sarphaet

cafe where I had lunch with a colleague on a very sunny day. Nice sadnwiches, capuchino not so good.

plan B

On my walk through Antwerp I came across a whole bunch of cafes. I finally sat down at Plan B. I had a great lunch, although I first thought it was quite expensive, but it was a great mozzarella tomato sandwich. I arrived just before 12, but soon there were a lot of people from the offices nearby that came there for lunch. Everyone seems to drink wine with their lunch. I miss this in Netherlands.

The role of international business in developing countries

One of the few JongTNO activities that really has my interest. Quite obviously because it is about working in developing countries. The minister of development cooperation mister Koenders held a speech about why it is important to stimulate the private sector to invest in development cooperation and start business in India or Africa. With the crisis at the backdrop, investment might be hard, but Shell, TNO, KPMG, Philips and some others are willing to and try to do it.

zoo Antwerpen

I haven't seen any animal, but I only stayed int he darwin hall just near the entrance of the Antwerpen Zoo. A big skeleton of a dinosuar made me wonder if they really did exist, has that really taken place?

war photographer

This was a crude, painfull and confronting movie of the war photographer James Nachtwey. An introvert, but gentle and warm person that gets so frustrated about the world he lives in, but uses the frustration to put him self in dangerous situations and show the rest of the world how crazy humankind van be. I watched this movie just the day before a Suzuki Swift killed 7 people in Apeldoorn on queens day. With tears in my eyes I made the train trip back to Groningen, why are we creating these kind of people, why are we creating a society that is so hard for some people to live in? What is wrong with it? I get sad about it, but what keeps me going is the same as James; the belief that in the end the good will win it from the bad.

pizzeria

I went to dinner with Snder the dday before the final meeting of CitizenMedia in Antwerp. We had to go through the sex-street with SEX and GIRLS screamed to us to come to a reasonable good restaurant where I had instead of a pizza a pasta arabiata, my favourite one. Nice conversation with Sander about work, ambition and plans.

great lake swimmers

A country band from toronto. Audiotransparent was the prelude to their performance, but I didn't particularly like the great lake swimmers. It got boring. Call me a music barbarian, but it is just not my kind of thing, the country. He has a nice voice, but it gets too monotonous after some time.

Audiotransparent

Another band of my dear friend Sebastiaan. Although he is "just" a guest in the band as a cello, it is exactly the sound of snare instruments that makes the music so special. Melnacholic, that gradually becomes a bit more happy. Will definitely hear more of them.