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Small Wonders.119

Posted by  |  June 26, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: | Leave a comment

City Views.119

As noted in the last post, Rotterdam has a lot of funky cool modern architecture, often alongside some lovely old buildings that survived the war. This is an area called Museum Park – the tall tower is the most famous museum, called apparently Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, closed for renovation for a few years now. The mirrored round building is the “Depot” where ordinarily the main museum houses works not currently on display. At the top left is Het Nieuwe Institute, showcasing design and architecture. The reflections of large groups of school children out for some special evening of school-kid activities, all moving in real life and reflected below the mirrored skyline in the depot building, made the experience honestly rather magical for me 🙂

Posted by  |  June 25, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, Zuid Holland | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Urban Canals.79

Yes, there’s air-bubble writing in that there canal. If you can tell me what it says, you’ll win my thanks :-). Rotterdam, as every Dutch person seems to know, is a much more hip and modern city primarily because it had to rebuild itself after being very heavily destroyed during WWII, so it decided to go quite modern in its rebuilt architecture. Stay tuned for more :-).

Posted by  |  June 24, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, Zuid Holland | Tags: , | 2 Comments

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Urban Entrances.19

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City Views.118

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Small Wonders.118

Posted by  |  June 21, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Leave a comment

Urban Canals.78

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Urban Entrances.18

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Video Bonus – Dusky Leaf Monkey Mother & Baby

She was having lunch at the same time and place as me, at the top of Penang Hill today during what ended up being a much longer, more strenuous and wonderful day of hiking than I expected when I set out at 9am with a small water bottle and my wallet. I just decided walking, steep hills and all, beat standing in long lines for the funicular, first at the bottom, then again at the top. 🙂

Posted by  |  June 18, 2022 | Categories: Malaysia | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

City Views.117

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Urban Canals.77

Posted by  |  June 17, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, Zuid Holland | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

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Small Wonders.117

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Urban Entrances.17

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City Views.116

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Small Wonders.116

I always think of Alice Walker’s wonderful collection Revolutionary Petunias… 🙂

Posted by  |  June 14, 2022 | Categories: Netherlands, North Holland & Amsterdam | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment