1) Zakopane - In the Tatra mountains
2) Zurek - Sauerkraut soup
3) Białowieża Primaeval Forest - The last part of the primeval forest of Europe
4) New Town - Warsaw
5) Intercontinental hotel Warsaw
6) Mazury Lakes
7) The polish people
8) Polish Language - Its has some really nice words
9) The low prizes... ;-)
10) All the new development
Because my mother are sisters maried with two brothers - the genetic material of Ruud is almost the same. Add up a similair upbringing (neighborhood, school, holidays etc. etc.) and you almost have a clone :-)
The children of Ruud and Christl remind me much of my brothers and sister and children of my brothers and sister. Funny how that is.
It was nice to visit Warsaw again. Of course during the set up of Funda Polska I have been back and forward to my old hometown - but every time something new has been added.
We stayed in my favorite Intercontinental hotel in Warsaw. Right in the middle of the centre and with a swimming pool on the 43st floor - excellent rooms and service.
I flew to Warsaw today with my mother and aunt to visit my nephew Ruud and his wife Christl. The flight was only 2 hours but a bomb scare on Chopin airport made us wait for a couple of hours...
I must admit: I forgot to set the DVR for the second debate. But I found on The New York Times website a brilliant interactive video of this event. You can search for words, go to subjects (red for McCain, blue for Obama) and the transcript will scroll accordingly. It is the best Video application I have ever seen - Maybe next time I skip the DVR all together and watch the third debate of The NYT website immediately...
Thanks Photoshop for saving the day!
I was visiting my dear friend Marianne and her animal farm. I made a picture with my iPhone of one of her horses - at least I thought I did. This was the result... ?
Actually I don't care so much for the story; for my just the fact that Vin is in it is more then enough... ;-)
1) Casino Royale
2) Golden Eye
3) Dr. No
4) On her Majesty's Secret Service
5) License to Kill
6) The Man with The Golden Gun
7) Live and Let Die
8) You only live twice
9) Thunderball
10) From Russia with Love
After 15 years of Porsche - the new for a roomier car - started a new era today: The AUDI era. First impression: I like it :-)
My new Obama iPhone app :-) The application shows how many calls have
been made nationwide and how many I made so far and shows local events based on GPS.
1) Drole de Felix
2) Der Bewegte Man
3) Krampack
4) Big Eden
5) Get Real
6) Gods and Monsters
7) SommerSturm
8) Y Tu Mama Tambien
9) Torch Song Trilogy
10) Ma vraie vie à Rouen
Based on the true story of Harvey Milk - one of my all time heroes - finally the movie: MILK.
Adobe did it again: the amazing new version of Photoshop has some sweet new functions like this content transform which protects the main part of the picture and so let you crop in a whole new way... I cannot wait.
At the Bovens auction Eddie and I couldn't resist to this (huge) plate of Karel Appel. It really makes you smile doesn't it?
In the latest foler of department store The Bijenkorf (The hyve) this offer for a two and a half hour space flight for only $200.000 - OK and € 3.500 of Bijenkorf points :-) Eddie and I have all ready other holiday plans...
We visited Noor and Niek to view their extended gardens and to meet their new dog - a Italian Brack Dog ("Keetje"). Both were beautiful. As is this car of Niek...
1. Deusche Bracke
2. Irish Wolfhound
3. Jack Russel
4. Labrador Retriever
5. Doberman
6. Otter hounds
7. Weimaraner
8. Barzoi
9. Jura laufhund
10. Pointer
We celebrated the birthday of Ger and Mien with the whole family. It was nice to see everyone again.
The Next Web Salon was a nice event at Boris en Tessas' home. I met new interesting people, heard some nice stories and had great food.
Tom is a guy at the Oscar Romero School in Hoorn and he is suffering from bone cancer. Because of his radiation treatment he lost his hair: so did his class mates :-))
New work from photographer Erwin Olaf of his Fall series. Now at the The Hague Gemeente Museum.
"To run a business you have to have a lifetime of experience in
business," Carly says. "But that's not what Sarah Palin, John McCain, Joe
Biden or Barack Obama are doing." Isn't Carly the same woman that was fired at HP as CEO because she was destroying the company?
If John McCain's top economic advisor doesn't think he can run a
corporation, how on Earth can he run the largest economy in the world
in the midst of a financial crisis?... :-|
In his new flick: Babylon AD Vin Diesel rides a Lazareth Customs bike. Look pretty good...
I like flowers more then just plants. These are my favorite ones: follow the link to see great pics at flickr...
1. Orchids - just beautiful
2. Cala Lili - gracious
3. Cherry Blosom - brings back life to nature in spring time
4. Tulip - Dutch
5. Poppy - Simple
6. Sunflower - Real sun power
7. Roses - scent
8. Iris- striking colors
9. Crocus - they are first
10. Daisy - just funny
Everywhere were you ride you can see stuff related to the battle in 1943 between the last german forces and the advancing Allied troops. This tank seems to be stuck in this villages (Celles)...
The first thing we did when we arrived in Spa was... to swim and to linger in the Spa - which is a very modern complex. So modern that Ingo had an agrument with the electronic lockers ;-)
Together with Ingo I went of to a long weekend riding our bikes in The Belgium Ardennes. It was pooring with rain all the way down to Belgium. Luckily we were wearing our Rukka Motor suits - which are terrific and we were completely dry and warm ourselves. It took us - through a special tour almost 7 hours to reach Spa (the orginal one).
It sounds like something you'd only see on the Discovery Channel:
people pedaling ferociously to create enough energy to power the
television, stereo and lights. Launched last week, his "human-powered" gym (The Green Micro Gym) is one of few fitness
centers in the world that runs on power generated by people working out. The goal is to generate 100% of the electricity used in the Gym. With my workout routine that would be peanuts...
I was with Noelle and eddie at the special ballet performance for Rudi van Dantzig commemorating his 75 birthday. It was a unbalanced evening with some highlight and some downsides.
I did see it at the moment but good old Thijs sent me this analysis of NYT - the stage of the democratic convention was a copy of... the White House setting!
