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Well, hello! Checking in with a picspam, because I've been on another amazing businesstrip! I went to Abu Dhabi for work and was fortunate enough to start with a weekend to explore this capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Here's day 1: I took the local bus into town, quickly figured out the place isn't made for walking outside, so I got on a Hop On/Hop Off bustour to see ALL the things :-)

( Abu Dhabi Saturday 12 April 2025 )

To be continued!

J.

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Went on a worktrip to England for two weeks(!) in January, I visited London and Windsor on the weekend in between. I already posted a short impression on my Instagram, below is a picspam of all the food in between and after work plus a full report on all the sights on the weekend. The first week was mostly me an my UK colleagues preparing for the second week when delegations from all over world came over to nerd/work together;-)

I traveled by Eurostar train which still required a transfer in Brussels, Belgium on the way to London (due to renovation of the customs building in Amsterdam), but is going directly from England to the Netherlands on the way back. From my hometown the best connection is through Rotterdam.

( Day 1: Travelday NLD Home to GBR Work )

( Day 2: 1st workday )

( Day 3+4: worklunches and take-out dinners )

( Day 5: a Saturday in London )

( Day 6: a Sunday afternoon in Windsor )

( Day 7-12: International workweek )

J.

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On Sunday September 1st, the third day of my long weekend in the South of the Netherlands, it was finaly time for the main event: Bloemencorso Zundert 2024! (More about its history and the preparations for this event in my previous post. [LJ

( Getting there )

Here we go!
I combined photos of each float from all the three times they came by to show them from all angles. The first passing was from 13:45 (quarter to 2 p.m.) until 15:15 (quarter past 3 p.m.), so it took all floats an hour and half to pass me by. Second and third passing of the parade went quicker, the last float on the way to the exhibition site passed at 18:30 (6:30 p.m.)

There were also a couple of musicbands in between the floats, but I didn't get any good photos of those unfortunately; they put on a great show!

( Let's go watch the Flowerparade! )

What a great weekend!

You can find my videos of the flower floats in my YouTube playlist: Bloemencorso Zundert 2024.

J.

Previous visits to Zundert:
2016 [LJ | 2018 [LJ].

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The goal of my long visit to the South of the Netherlands was the Bloemencorso in Zundert; a yearly parade of flowerfloats. These are organised all over the Netherlands, but Zundert is the oldest (since 1936!) and biggest corso (20 floats) every first Sunday in September. Every neighbourhood (or hamlet) of Zundert has been working for months to build their own dahliafloat. On the Friday before the parade, they start putting on the fresh flowers; it's a community effort to get all the floats ready for the Sunday Parade.

I visited the Bloemencorso in Zundert before (in 2016 [LJ and 2018 [LJ].
This year I signed up for a corsotour on Saturday, where you get to hear about the history of the event and you visit two construction sites, to take a closer look at the finishing touches on the floats! Come join me :-)

( Visiting flowerfloat construction sites! )

Up next will be my photos of the flowerparade. If you can't wait I have already posted my videos at my YouTube, here's my playlist: Bloemencorso Zundert 2024.

J.

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For my most recent long weekend off, I started planning in April when tickets for the Flowerparade in the small town of Zundert went on sale; I've been to this yearly festive event before (in 2016 [LJ and 2018 [LJ] -it's on every first Sunday of September-, but it's a long daytrip from where I live, so this time I wanted to treat myself to a hotel nearby, in Breda. I added extra days before and after, to also have an opportunity to explore that city in the South of the Netherlands. I did a boat trip around Breda and discovered an artproject with murals all over town, so even before the main goal of my visit, my cameras were doing overtime, heehee. I came home with nearly 1000 photos, haha!
I'll start with a picspam of my days in Breda and will share my Flowerparade visit later.

If you can't wait to see the Flowerparade, I have already posted a couple of videos of that over at my YouTube. (I will be adding more to the playlist Bloemencorso Zundert 2024 soon!)

( Day 1: An afternoon in Breda )

( Day 2: Cyclingtour Murals )

To be continued!

J.

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Hey hello y'all, I haven't done a proper post in a while (even though I did keep my Booklist up to date;-)
I've been working a lot and traveling* for work in the past few months as well, which I shared at my Instagram instead of here. But even though I get more feedback there, it's not as satisfying as making a full on picspam post, so I'm back here with a new travel report of my personal summervacation trip to Terschelling, one of the islands in the North of the Netherlands.

( Links to travelpics on Instagram )

( My history with the Wadden Islands )
Now, without further ado, here's an old fashion picspam with loads of babbling about my most recent travels: Four days on Terschelling!

( DAY 1: Arrival and first exploration )

( DAY 2: A bit of Cycling )

( DAY 3: A horse-drawn wagon )

( DAY 4: A museum visit )

I had an excellent time \o/ The end.

My next work-trip will be in about two weeks, to England again and I'm currently working towards the big biannual international conference in September), destination to be revealed later; (What is my life?!)

In between work and travels I also participated in another Phase of Land of Art, I will share graphics in the near future (promise;)

J.

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Last Friday I got on a train to Amsterdam to cycle around for the Light Festival with brotherdearest. Was a little apprehensive because last year the installations were disappointing, but this year's artworks totally made up for that; so many gorgeous designs! After two hours of cycling (and stopping to take photos) we took a short dinner break and then did another final hour to finish the whole route. My butt didn't appreciate it, but (ha) it was an excellent evening:-)

( Here's a complete photo tour! )

Is it really you? - Studio Mast (NLD)
Another favorite: this installation starts with just coloured dots and then different faces are drawn with lines connecting the dots.

( More photos and links to videos! )
The current edition is running until January 21st. For everyone who wants to see more, I made a list of previous Light Festival picspams below:)

J.

December 2022 (LightFestival 2022/2023) Boattour with Mom and Brotherdearest, photos on Instagram

December 2018 (LightFestival 2018/2019) Cycled with brotherdearest, photos and video post on Dreamwidth (and LJ)

December 2017 (LightFestival 2017/2018), unplanned walk with brotherdearest, I only posted 2 photos on Instagram:
ships in the harbour and a gif of my face lit up in a box:-)

Januari 2017 (LightFestival 2016/2017) with Mom, J. and brother H., photos+gifs+videos in Livejournal:
Part 1 is a walk called Illuminade,
+ Part 2 is the boattour section called Water Colors

December 2015 (LightFestival 2015/2016) Walked with Mom, photo and videos in LJ

November 2014 (LightFestival 2014/2015) spotted two artworks on a random walk with brotherdearest, picspam of Amsterdam in LJ

Playlist of all the Video over the years on my YouTube

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Been back to work for a week already since my vacation and as always I'm surprised how fast the routine sinks in again and I forgot all the good intentions about reordering my daily life after traveling, haha. Oh well, I'm a human of habits I guess. Here's the second part of my short trip to the island Ameland, these are the final two days in which I do more cycling and reading (in a bath with bubbles of course) plus a walking excursion through the dunes. Come explore some more with me!

( Day 3: Cycling to the Lighthouse )

( Day 4: Back on the boat )

If you are a fan of nature, Ameland is definitely worth a visit. I understand summer can be quite crowded there, but it looks like it's a pretty awesome destination year round!

Picspam Day 1 + 2 [LJ]

J.

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Yesterday I came home from a lovely four day trip to one of the Wadden Islands up in the North of the Netherlands: Ameland. It's an hour by train and half an hour by bus plus another 50 minutes by ferry, so just enough travel to make if feel like a true vacation:-) I had booked a fancy suite in a 'boutique' hotel with 2 (two!) rain showers and a free-standing bath tub. I had brought a whole bunch of books to read and hadn't really planned to be very active. Beforehand I had checked if I could hire a regular bicycle, but found they only had bikes with gears or e-bikes available and neither suits me. But upon arrival at the hotel I discovered there was a rental bikeshop just around the corner so I decided to ask in person and they had a perfect bike available after all. I love cycling lots and it's so much easier to move around than walking and I couldn't resist exploring the island beyond the tiny village I stayed in. Want to come along? Here's a picspam of my first two days...

( Day 1: Travel to Nes )

( Day 2: Cycling to 't Oerd )

Size facts about Ameland: the island is 25km long and varies in width from 4km in the West to only 2km in the East. There live about 3700 people permanently and all year round there are about 40,000 visitors (25,000 from Germany)!

To be continued!

J.

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Right after I got back home from visiting ArtZuid in Amsterdam back in September, I did a quick Instragram post with ten pics, meant to be an appetizer for a long picspam follow up on LiveJournal & DreamWidth a couple days later. But then work took over my life for a bit and the final preparations for the SPN_ReverseBang ate up a lot of time too and then I went to London and then I went to Amsterdam for another exhibition and this is the first weekend in a long time where I had nothing planned, so I'm finally getting around to a sorting out my photos!

ArtZuid is an outdoor art exhibition in the South of Amsterdam that's organized every two years, with pieces from sculptors all around the world. For this year's edition I got on a train with my mom and we hired public transport bicycles at the Amsterdam South station from where brotherdearest H. guided us around. I think we only missed 4 or 5 sculptures from the total of about 90! I didn't get good photos of all of them, and some of them had to be captured from more angles; this picspam contains 87 photos in total;) Enjoy!

( Let's get on our bicycles and go! )

J.

I thought for sure I had shared photos of previous years ArtZuid, but the only one I could find was from 2013!

Crossposts: https://beelikej.livejournal.com/571285.html

Had quite a busy few weeks, so it took a while to sort through my photos, but here it finally is: the last picspam of my hoteltrip to Doetinchem. On the second day of my visit, I explored the city. As it happens, on top of all the regular sights, there was a creative street exposition of World Street Painting! I also discovered one of the awesomest artinstallations I've ever seen. Join me on a walk with a bit of history, architecture, (street)art and butterflies!

( Day 2 in Doetinchem )

( Day 3 in Doetinchem )

The End.

Hope this was as much fun for you as it was for me! (Part One)

J.

Crossposts: https://beelikej.livejournal.com/570866.html

If you follow me on Twitter you may already know that from Oct. 1st I will have a permanent position on the geodata project I love so much! The past few weeks were particularly stressful because I was about to reach the maximum on the temporary contract I've been working on for the past 5,5 years, pfff. The option of steady jobs on the project came right on time! In order to round up my current contract properly, I had some collected vacation time left to burn, so I took last week off for another short trip to a Dutch area I hadn't been before: the Achterhoek! ("the back corner";)

Booked myself two nights in the so-called 'waterfun' room of a fancy hotel in Doetinchem, which is about 90 minutes away by train from Z. To end up right on the front steps of the hotel, the public transport app recommended a route by train and bus, so that's how I chose to travel. Here's my picspam of Day 1!

( Doetinchem, Day 1 )

...to be continued...

Off to mod claims on the SPN_ReverseBang! *runs*

J.

Crossposts: https://beelikej.livejournal.com/570501.html

Had a very good night's sleep after all the walking (and eating) I did on my first day in Zaandam. For my second day I had nothing planned but reading and relaxing. But since I hadn't had a chance to go inside the main tourist attraction yesterday, I put that bit of sightseeing on the program as well. My main event however was a visit to the Wellness floor of the hotel... but let's start with breakfast. Twice!

( Thursday August 12: Czar Peter's House & Wellness )

( Friday August 13: Zaanse Schans & Home )

The end.

J.

Crossposts: https://beelikej.livejournal.com/569870.html

By way of summervacation I took 4 days off and arranged a short stay in a fancy hotel in an unknown town in the Netherlands: here's a picspam of my first day in Zaandam. This town is mostly used as a extension of Amsterdam for tourists and it shows; the whole decor is aimed at foreign visitors and oozes colourful kitsch. The village and its surroundings is a collection of Dutch history as a lot of buildings (and mills) were moved or rebuild in the Zaan area for conservation. It was fun to see how the Netherlands presents itself here:)

( Wednesday August 11: walking through Zaandam )

To be continued...

J.

Crossposts: https://beelikej.livejournal.com/569649.html

Ahw, my final day in Haarlem, so I'm saying goodbye to the fancy Royal Suite *happy sigh*. For my last bit of vacation away from home, I'm meeting up with brotherdearest H. He often cycles from Amsterdam through Haarlem to get to the beach and he was happy to show me a couple of sights that I had missed on my first visit.
The past few days were rainy, but we were lucky to have dry weather, so we could stick to our plan of cycling to the beach together!

( Steep dunes and cloudy skies )

It was such a great little vacation.

J.

Day 1: Exploring St. Bavo & fangirl meet up [DW] | Day 2: Bubblebaths & fancy dinner [DW]

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After spending the first day of my autumn trip exploring Haarlem in the rain, my second vacation day was going to be a mostly indoors day, because I had planned to spend my time lounging (and bathing:) in my luxurious hotel suite:) I only went outside in the morning to buy a bubble bar at Lush and get some buns for lunch, before staying in for the rest of the day. Here's a small picspam of the short walk, and my fancy dinner:)

( Of bathbubbles and fantastic food )

J.

Want to get a good look at that Royal Suite? Check the video from Day 1 [DW]

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Yay, I finally had time to take a longer break from work and I took a week off for a bit of a vacation. I arranged a short get-away to the same hotel in Haarlem that I had discovered in July. This time I treated myself to two nights (2!) in the Royal Suite which had a bathtub that promised a full immersion instead of the bottomsoaker experience I had in that design hammock bath last time;)
On my first day in Haarlem I also met up with

sillie82 for some socially distanced fangirling. While we caught up on life and fandom, we explored the St. Bavo church (where we discovered Pillar Biters!:)

( Haarlem in October: Day 1 )

J.

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Had a wonderful night in my hotel in Haarlem; the bedroom is next to a quiet garden and I slept very well. Because of Corona measures, breakfast is in timeslots and I'm assigned 10-11 a.m, which is fine with me. I want to make the most of my time in this fancy Presidential Suite, so I'm in no rush to leave my room and thus start my day with another soak in the hammock bath, haha! Beware of my smug bubblebath pose below;)

Although I already did a bunch of sightseeing yesterday, there is still a lot of exploring left to do. So, let's have a hearty breakfast and go!

( Haarlem DAY 2: Monday July 20 )

Day 1 in Haarlem [DW]

And then I spent a whole day making picspams, haha, it truely felt exactly like days worth of traveling:)

J.

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After weeks of training new people at the office, I was very happy to finally be able to take a couple of days off. I spent the first two days reading on the couch with lushious breakfast and lunch in between, it was bliss. For a true summervacation feel, I wanted a bit of time away from home as well, within the limitations of social distancing, of course.
Since intense traveling wasn't possible, I figured I'd make the most of a nearby destination with just enough traintravel to make it feel like a journey but still be comfortable in these pandemic times. I was thrilled when I found a hotelroom with a bath in a town I hadn't visited before. It wasn't just any room: I arranged the PRESIDENTIAL SUITE for a night in a very fancy hotel in Haarlem. And this suite didn't have a regular tub, but a ... hammock bath. I couldn't wait to find out what that was like!
Before I check in though, let's do a little exploring!

( Haarlem DAY 1: Sunday July 19 )

To be continued>>> Day 2 in Haarlem [DW]

J.

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Before I travel towards the final destination of my roundtrip through Japan, I decide to spend a leisurely morning in Hiroshima. I've discovered an old garden nearby my hotel that I want to explore. It's lovely not to have to get up super early to catch a train:) Of course there will be some traveling in the afternoon when I have to make my way to Osaka, from where I'll be flying home the next day. But first let's go on a lovely stroll!

Day 9: [Monday, October 14, 2019]
( Shukkeien Garden - Hiroshima )

Watch on YouTube

View from the Shinkansen (bullettrain) from Hiroshima to Shin-Osaka. See how it speeds up, woohoo!

( Traveling to Osaka )

Day 10: [Tuesday, October 15, 2019]
( From Osaka to Amsterdam )
The End.

Previous travel reports: Part 1: Traveling to Japan | Part 2: Temples in Tokyo | Part 3: Nikko
Part 4: From Tokyo to Kyoto | Part 5: Nara | Part 6: A stormy day in Kyoto | Part 7: Hiroshima & Miyajima

J.

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Entries tagged with picturepost

Worktrip to Abu Dhabi (United Arab Emirates)

Worktrip to England: London & Windsor

Long Weekend part 3: Bloemencorso Zunders (2024 Flowerparade!)

Long Weekend part 2: Flowerparade preparations!

Long Weekend in the South of the Netherlands, part 1: Breda

Trip to Terschelling

Amsterdam Light Festival 2023/2024 edition

Trip to Ameland [2/2]

Trip to Ameland [1/2]

Amsterdam ArtZuid 2021 [SEPT]

Short trip to Doetinchem (part 2/2)

Short trip to Doetinchem (part 1/2)

My short summervacation in Zaandam (part 2/2)

My short summervacation in Zaandam (part 1/2)

My mini autumn vacation, Day 3/3 [Oct 7]

My mini autumn vacation, Day 2/3 [Oct 6]

My mini autumn vacation, Day 1/3 [Oct 5]

My mini summervacation, Day 2/2

My mini summervacation, Day 1/2

My train trip through Japan part 8/8 [October 2019]