Recently I promised more photos from den Bosch, et voila. I (and work) treated me to a week of intensive Dutch at a school just south of the city, which ended on the weekend of Carnaval. Den Bosch is one of the two main provincial capitals in which I’ve always heard they take the whole Carnaval thing seriously. Above is the Saturday car parade with Den Bosch Centraal train station in the background: frogs, the red – white – yellow, jackets (usually black) with many patches, and general festivity are the theme. Below, more from Saturday and Sunday.
99% certain I’m showing you the city of Ijmuiden, a lot of North Holland (the province) including Amsterdam, the Markermeer & the Ijsselmeer, a lot of Flevoland (the province) and even bits of Overijssel & Friesland (the provinces)…what makes me 1% unsure is that, enlarge it as I try, I can’t really quite find Amsterdam landmarks that I recognize, which just goes to show how perspectives can change, or how much resolution one mobile phone’s camera can generate. These are all from shortly after takeoff for my December flight to ORD.
It’s night on two years since I last shared views from Den Bosch with you, but having recently spent a weekend staying there, these are the first of more to come.
Posting a bunch of photos from an afternoon walk last month around my neighborhood on a cold Sunday afternoon. During my most recent walk past this new stork platform above, I didn’t yet seen indications of any nesting storks taking up residence, but I do think I’ve seen a few storks soaring through the sky already.
Final shots from last June’s short Rome visit: above, a bay on the west coast of Italy heading south, and below, over the alps then about to land in Amsterdam a few days later. If you’re viewing this on your phone, you might see how you like the “full view” now and then – that way, you’d see circles of smaller photos below and a larger photo above, instead of four square same-sized photos top to bottom. Just sayin’ :-).
(so much world, so little time....) 