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Thelma & Louise strike again, this time in the Netherlands, Belgium, and France.
These countries are so driven by wind, water, and light. It was inspiring to capture.

(Photos are forthcoming, but images from le Chateau can be found here)

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schmoo > The Old World

Music is "Escape Artist" by Zoe Keating

schmoo > At SFO, I'm tingling with fear and excitement. Two years ago i would never have dreamed of traveling overseas by myself, even if one of my best friends was waiting to receive me on the other side!

I had never traveled KLM before. And here I bid goodbye to the beautiful summer clouds of San Francisco. Even as we passed overhead there was a sheet of fog below us, a tiny tip of Sutro Tower poking through.

schmoo > After I arrived I begged to go to the Crumpler store in Den Haag, since I had not brought a camera bag with me. So we went there and afterwards walked around in the rain, and enjoyed a good lunch.

This store was amusing to me. I was of course one of the shortest people anywhere we went! And this sign was well above (my) eye-level. So much for being "very small!"

schmoo > Bikes, boots, and European fashion in Den Haag.

I had noticed through the week that what people wear in San Francisco is vastly different from what people are wearing here. And what people were wearing in Paris (later in the week) was very different from what they were wearing in the Netherlands.

schmoo > Streets in Den Haag, in a bit of rain.
Must. Have. Bicycles.

schmoo > We went Bananas! I think it's becoming a theme...

Here we have one banana case, one banana potholder, and one, uhh, banana. :)

schmoo > Beautiful rush hour traffic outside of Antwerp. We took a day trip to see what we could find in the woods. ;)

(It was a castle)

schmoo > The beautiful town of Dinant, in Belgium. We had two ginormous salads in a restaurant that specialized in mussels.

The proprietors of the place were so typically European, and one was a short old man and one a tall skinny youngster. Like the two men who ran the noodle shop in Tokyo, I think they moonlighted as a superhero team!

schmoo > I cannot remember the name of this little restaurant in Delft (something in Dutch about two pigs?) but it was an adorable, quiet little vegetarian place off the canal. I have scarcely been in a homier restaurant!

schmoo > The funny story about it was that we were looking for it along the street but couldn't find it, but in searching there was an ambulance out front. We joked that it would be really funny if the emergency happened to be for the restaurant.

It turned out that it actually was! And the first thing the proprietress assured us when we were seated was that the medical emergency was not related to the food. :D

We had (as we usually do) the same thing: Some curry soup to start, and the Moroccan tajine.

schmoo > The follow day, we visited the Hoek van Holland which is a very busy industrial waterway. It was very very windy, but so quintessentially Dutch, I think!

Everyone (myself included) thinks of blue, orange, creaky wooden windmills, dikes, and wooden shoes. The Dutch are very technologically forward, clean, efficient, and have excellent trade. The Hoek was all of those things wrapped together.

schmoo > Big ships at the Hoek van Holland.

schmoo > Attempt at some abstract stuff.

schmoo > I think Ivar was driving on this shot, as I'm in the corner!

The Old World

Music is "Escape Artist" by Zoe Keating

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