Back in November I was feeling sorry for myself. Stuck with physical therapy twice a week [more on this, in Dutch, in this post], I needed to make plans for the new year that would clear my dark mood.

Along came a message.

A concert in London, the O2 Arena, in May.

For me, a once in a lifetime concert.

So, I bought the ticket (at 9:30AM, patiently refreshing the ticket website), without realizing the exact date: that would not be a problem (and, luckily, it wasn't!).

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With an early Friday break for my Easter weekend, I visited the Keukenhof together with friends Ingrid and Bjorn.

As the three of us (well, some more than others) are quite keen photographers, we were armed with batteries, memory cards and tripods (mine's a monopod), and of course our cameras.

An approximate 450 photos later (my count), we went our way again and headed home. The Keukenhof by now was a very crowded place and I cannot blame the other visitors. The weather was gorgeously hot and the tulips (and other bulbs) were blooming for our enjoyment!

By the next day I had checked and rechecked my photos, of which about 40 made the cut to be placed on flickr: Keukenhof April 10 @ flickr

[related post: Major photo update]

This past weekend I spent in Frankfurt, visiting Katie and joining Judy&Stan for a brief weekend of fun and touristic outings.

As I was lucky to have a Canon 300D with me (and about 6GB of memory cards), I took loads of photos. Tonight (and last night) I downloaded and uploaded the photos to my flickr account, and you can find the best of the approximately 600 photos I took right here: Frankfurt@flickr.

Enjoy!

(and thanks to Katie and Frank for showing us Frankfurt and the Rhine!)

The Loreley (Rhine river)

The Liebfrauenkirche in Oberwesel

Schloß Schönburg

Hildegard von Bingen

A character from 'Der Struwwelpeter'

The Bull at the Exchange

Below a link to a very poignant video, which I recommend you watch and send forward!

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

www.humanrightsactioncenter.org
Created by Seth Brau
Produce by Amy Poncher
Music by Rumspringa courtesy Cantora Record

If ever a post of mine belonged to the WORLD category, this is it!

This upcoming weekend - October 11&12, a two-day walking event will take place in the Netherlands, organised by A Sister's Hope. This event is dedicated to raising money for breast cancer research and services; committed to helping individuals realize their own power to make the world what we dream it can be.

My very good friend Nancy will participate for this 2x 30 kilometer walk.

Wish her good luck, and donate some money!

Some beauties, it seems, are destined for the semantic scrap heap. The editors at Collins have decided that they can dispense with [-] 24 rarely-used words [...]

http://timesonline.typepad.com/comment/2008/09/vote-to-save-a.html

have I been?

visited 14 states (6.22%)
Create your own visited map of The World.

And in the US?

visited 22 states (44%)
Create your own visited map of The United States.

(At least for the US, I think I have covered them all!)(And Utah and Arizona are a bit of a fib: I was at Four Corners USA) (As for New York, I was only in NY NY)

Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.

All the world was amazed by the absurdity of a show where a kidney would be given away!

Fuck, what a good show!

Sign up, people! Get registered as a possible donor!

[and it's not scary, I have been one since I was 14 and my parents had to co-sign with me!]