On the screen at the left is an image of this year’s Den Bosch Carnaval Prince. (New one each year.) Adding most of the rest of my Den Bosch Carnaval photos from last month, for fun. Look for the beer-cup holder attached to a tuba, and the many frogs which are also part of the whole Den Bosch Carnaval experience 🙂
All but one of the photos in this post are taken looking out of the windows in that modern addition, up at the top of the Museum de Fundatie in Zwolle to which I linked in our prior post. One house I decided to photograph outside at street level, in the gallery below, so you can compare how it looks as seen through raindrop-bedecked window on high versus looking up from ground level.
Zwolle is the capital of Overijssel Province here in NL, and I spent a (rather rainy) day & night there a few weeks ago in order to experience quite a magical concert by the combined Amsterdam Sinfonietta & Nederlands Kammerkoor which featured Faure’s Requiem, a Shostakovich Chamber Symphony, Part’s wonderful De Pacem Domine amongst other gems. Herewith a few “signs”-relevant Zwolle views, the first I’ve shown since a few posts in the summer of 2022 (!), the only other time I got out of the train in Zwolle. Spoiler alert: I’ve now been inside the unique modern addition featured in that link: something else to watch for in upcoming posts :-).
First inhabited stork-nesting platform I’d seen this season, biking home through Vondelpark a few weeks ago – above. Below, same platform seen from the other side, last weekend. And further down, since it’s spring flower season here, more from last weekend’s walk in Vondelpark for your viewing pleasure :-).
They’ve been steadily renovating and sprucing up Amsterdam’s Royal Palace – never a residence, only where the the royal head of state holds state meetings when in A’dam – for quite a while now. The gold ornaments on the roof are looking nice and shiny and, spoiler alert, I’ve managed a few more legit royal-adjacent digs visits recently, so we’ll very soon be showing you this view again- next time with sunshine :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 