Via Dolorosa
The Via Dolorosa is were Jesus walked to his crucifixion, he stopped a couple of times on the way. Strangley enough nowadays they sell women underwear at his stop number 4...
Meanwhile on Facebook
A message of Compare People.
Your friends have voted on your strengths and weaknesses:
STRENGTHS:
best dinner companion - yep! that is because I don't drink!
nicest smelling - Is it me or my Terre from Hermes?
most reliable - that is for sure.
WEAKNESSES:
best to hang out with for a day - yes better make it a year or so
person with the best body - This must be a mistake! :-)
Your friends have voted on your strengths and weaknesses:
STRENGTHS:
best dinner companion - yep! that is because I don't drink!
nicest smelling - Is it me or my Terre from Hermes?
most reliable - that is for sure.
WEAKNESSES:
best to hang out with for a day - yes better make it a year or so
person with the best body - This must be a mistake! :-)
Looking for miracles...
With our guide Henriette and our driver Arafat (sic!) we went to tour the Northern part of Israel is search of miracles. We found the places of the miracles of the transformation of water into wine, the multiplication of the fishes and loaves, the walking on water - we even saw with our own eyes that the dessert was blooming. We saw were people are baptised in the Jordan river but even better: we witnessed an original baptism celebration in a Greek Orthodox church.
Yad Vashem
A must see - maybe it is better to say "A must experience" in Israel is the famous Holocast Museum Yad Vashem. It was truly a moving moment. It is an excellent museum with a shocking overview of the holocast. Lot's of Dutch references and I even found in the names register of all the victims a dozen people or so with the name Joosten - which was a surprise.
Jerusalem here we come!
A short and pleasant flight brought us to Tel Aviv and after a very efficient border control we drove to Jerusalem. Because we arrived at 3 AM we went to bed as soon as we arrived in our (great) hotel: The American Colony. Later that day we visited the Israel Museum and saw the dead sea books, found in the 1940's in the special purpose build part of the museum. We were just in time for the friday prayers at the West Wall and we thought it would be a good idea to join in - only we were a little suspicious for not wearing black as the other guys - but orange ;-)
Singapore TV fined for showing gay couple
The city state's government-owned broadcaster was fined £5,500 for airing a lifestyle programme featuring a gay couple with their adopted baby. The state regulator said the episode "normalises and promotes a gay lifestyle".
Prison Population
Nice graph from The New York Times of Today: amount of prisoners per 100000 per country. Lowest? Iceland (32 - total 133 prisoners), Highest USA - (751 - 2.3 million -that's a quarter of all prisoners in the whole world - OOPS!). Holland a modest 117 - still quite high though in Europe.
Kraak & Smaak
Kraak & Smaak, the team of Mark Kneppers, Oscar De Jong and Wim Plug does it again! After their great "Boogie Angst" album, they released Plastic People which is even better funky dance music. Not bad for a couple of guys from Leiden. I really like the song "Ready for Life" - I guess this wil be a huge hit in a couple of..uh..days? listen at www.kraaksmaak.nl
New Zealand's Maori rediscover themselves in tattoos
Traditional tattoos, or ta moko, were once a source of discrimination
against New Zealand’s half a million Maori population, but the art has
been revived amid renewed ethnic pride.
Lots of Maori now are getting tattoos again - but not so much on their faces anymore; shame actually ;-)
Lumix with build in WiFi
Panny's Lumix DMC-TZ50 isn't brand new or anything -- after all, we first caught wind of this WiFi-equipped point-and-shoot late last month
in Japan. Nevertheless, Panasonic is now announcing that said camera
will be heading Stateside with 802.11b/g capabilities, access to
T-Mobile HotSpot service and the ability to upload photos directly to
Google's Picasa Web Albums. Yours for about $450.
Play your Birth Tune
What was the #1 most popular song on the day you were born? Has this question been keeping you up at night? Then today’s your lucky day. On this site,
you can specify your birth month and date. The site will show you which
song was at the top of the Billboard charts on the day your life began.
PS: Mine is Duke of Earl by Gene Chandler...Hmmm ;-)
At the Den Bosch Art fair 2008
The art fair in Den Bosch is always fun because of the quality of the artifacts and the affordability. We went (as usual) with No & Go and they surprised us with a present in the form of a really great print of Alma Tadema which we immediately liked the moment we saw it. I am glad to say that I now hangs pretty in our home :-))
An other picture that struck me at once was Fuel station by the Dutch artist Jan Ros. It looks like a photograph, but actually is a painting. We bought that one as well.
There were some other nice things to see - like glasses from the 18th century at Lameris, but at that time we thought we bought enough and called it a day.
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