koninginnedag

At queens day I went to Franeker with Tjitske, Jelmer and Ymkje. A nice little town in Friesland. But like every other queens day, there is not much to it, except actualy that the royal familty was visiting Franeker this year. Finally I have seen them all in real; willem, maxima en bea and all the others of the family.

grillerije

After a long day of walking through Franeker, we went to this sweet restaurant. After the meal we sat in the lounge chairs and had a nice irish coffee.

nynke laverman

Nynke did a performance for the royal family in Franeker as she does frysian songs. Nice to see this and I like her music.

kaap doorn

I stayed here for a few nights because I had a course there, workshop kind of thing. Persoonlijke Effectiviteit, where we had to think about what we are and what we want to be. What keeps us from doing certain things and what our own principles are and where they come from. Interesting and exhausting.

zomerhitte

A nice dutch movie, based on the book of Jan Wolkers. Just simple and feel good.

voorhuis

Kitty and Maarten got married and had their party in this theatre in Delft. I had performed there once with de pit lela lela. Some dancing going on and the viavias did a small act of course.

angels in america, toneelgroep amsterdam

This is by far the best play I have seen in ages. It was a four hour play, long that is, but there was not any moment it was boring or in any other way not good to look at. The story is about the gay scene in New York when aids was first discovered and spread among a lot of them. Not a very happy theme, but the way the characters changed from healthy to ill was just very well acted.

de heeren van Delft

A really good restaurant on the beestenmarkt in Delft. We had dinner there at the bachelor party of Kitty. Good portions, sophisticated and well decorated.

het festival.nu

Some dance workshops, a buffet and swing night on one afternoon and evening. I did a workshop tango, as I am determined to dance tango again from september on. And a workshop Egypt belly dancing, which was really really hard!! I thought I was quite flexible but it appeared not to be for belly dancing. I have to practice a lot!
The swingnight was with bare feet, I had to go early, to much bare feet for me.

club kalashnikov in het pakhuis

A dance night with balkan tunes and hindi music. I danced like a maniac, completely stupid. Was nice to talk to sebastiaan again and made me forget the busy week and thingd to do.

viva la focus

On the first Mobile Film Festival Liliane and I went to do some networking activities with people that can help us in a project. It appeared to be a fruitful and entertaining afternoon-evening and we could make appointments with some infleuntial people. THe best thing was I didn't even know I was talking to the wethouder, after I told him what our project was about. Nice way of introducing yourself!

the holiday

But I liked this movie better, because I just like Jude Law. ANd it was romantic, maybe a bit too much. But also sweet and makes me happy.

Volver

This is one of those movies everyone says you have to watch. My mom recorded it from canal+ and on a good afternoon at Renate and Erwin we watched it. Good movie, nice, eh, spanish, and also a bit weird. But nice.

doppio

I alwasy passed this coffee bar as it looked to posh and sophisticated. But it turns out they have really good coffee. The weekend we had to do some more rehearsels I first went to the doppio for a takeaway capuchino and then went to the theatre. A good apotion also for the early mornigs when I have to go to Delft

kaap hoorn

A fancy cafe near het hoornse meer. First afternoon the sun was so bright you could sit outside without the need of three coats and with the need of sunglasses. Sjoerd showed me his car and we dorve around to do some promotion for our play.

Volksvernietiging - universiteitstheater

Three times we played in het Universiteitstheater last week. It was a very busy and intensive week, as I had to work in the morning and went to the theatre around 2 or 4 pm. All three shows went well, though each of them was different. It was nice some people I knew came and watch me, always nice to do it for them. It wasn't even that bad...

het paard van troje

A new cafe in Groningen, right across the pintelier. Also nice to have a beer and chat. It was the last night we played in het universiteitstheater and it was nearly big enough to fit all the people in there.

Uitspanning boslust

And the morning after we had a capuchino and apple pie in boslust in the centre of Utrecht. Where parents go with their kids, an elderly couple, two girls drinking tea and having a cosy lunch. Back in the real world my head is still slow, my mouth is dry and then I have to go to a concert that same night.

derrick

Apparently you better not end up in this dancing, but we did. And we misbehaved. It was very late when we came home, and I don't know how we dealt with the time and beers and guys, but I had to wake up, because hanneke's mom was coming for a visit.

heereplein

A cafe for the young working class. Very crowded. I ran into a former colleague of mine who moved to Utrecht a year ago. Quite a coincidence.