I enjoyed seeing this young couple, with their newly bought Mona Lisa reproduction, in the VANS Off The Wall shoeshop at Lijnbaan in Rotterdam.
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Enthousiastic shanty choir singer
What would World Port festivities be without the music of shanty choirs!
“Rather blurry without glasses”
I assume you all understand my little joke: she turned out to be out of focus on a for the rest sharp photo…
The daily grind against a cheerful background
The Hague, the residence of the Netherlands
Markthal delicacies
Here it is again: Rotterdam’s newest pride, the Markthal.
“Women, grrr…”
Married for over forty years, so it seems…
Smile at strangers and you just might change a life
The Saturday market in Delft
In the winning mood
He looks in a hurry and she looks very happy with what she has scored at H&M’s. near Blaak station, Rotterdam.
Between the lines
The center of fhe Hague, where pedestrians, bikers and streetcars find their way on the pavement.
Mirror shopping
Rotterdam, Koopgoot – dummies, window, mirror, reflections, a shopping lady… The ingredients for a classic street photo.
Tape spaghetti
Not so long ago we needed tape for recording audio and video. Sometimes the tape did not want to stay on its reels and disappeared in the mechanic parts of the recorder, grrrr…!
More walls to tear down
In remembrance of the tear down of the Berlin wall (and the iron curtain) 25 years ago.
Poffertjes
“Poffertjes” are those typical Dutch tiny, fluffy pancakes which taste best with powder sugar and butter (and a bit of rhum, is my personal opinion). Poffertjes baker Seth had his wooden pavillion for many years on the Binnenweg and later on Hoogstreet. Since some years the pavillion has gone and Seth has a permanent location In a Hoogstraat building instead.
A Feyenoord classic (2008)
Rotterdam soccer club Feyenoord’s last trophy so far was the national cup in 2008. This one was taken during the honouring of the team by the mayor on the balcony of the city hall at Coolsingel.
They won’t bite
Another Markthal picture
I’m so sorry, I’ll get you a new one…
Exchanging glasses
Rotterdam, World Port Days, 2014
Serious snacking
Vlaardingen
Boys and their toys
Rotterdam, World Port Days 2014
Let’s keep our mouths firmly shut
Spotted on the Saturday week market in Delft
Markthal, the interior
The eelsmoker
Rotterdam, World Port Days 2014
Rev. Zombie’s Voodoo Shop
Taken in 2009 in New Orleans and saved for Halloween…
Rotterdam, Markthal (2)
About the same location as the one earlier published, now zoomed out. At your right the Laurens church, the Hoogstraat (High Street) and a small part of the Binnenrotte week market.