So I got nabbed by the police the other month for riding my bike on the pavement to get INTO the train station bike parking?!?!. I received a lovely 30 euro fine for my troubles in the post two weeks later. I tell you what they could have been doing… moving the junkies and making the place safer to walk, it’s not a nice place to be in even during the day, with over aggressive beggars and the odd loon shouting his balls out over his crack whore. Oh thats right… they don’t have 30 bucks to pay their habit let alone pay a fine, why go after them, when we can have these rich folks money that they earn slogging their guts out everyday to pay our wages…..ARSE! . I mean am I crazy?.. or is it just this place I’m living in?..well apparently I’m not that crazy anyway.
This article, police in Nijmegen fining cyclists using the pavement while the path is under repair.
riding on the pavement when your cycle lane is being repaired…seems like a good idea.
the police think differently me thinks
GEEN STIJL (No Style)
In Holland if a buiding has been empty for more than a year, it is legal to squat it. (well this was the law, and maybe it changed recently). Anyway, this is the way they deal with them over here with riot vans, water cannons, military police and helicopters. The strange thing is the police leaflet the area a few days in advance, so everyone come to see, including squatters from other buildings to cheer things along…. anywho,, heres a pic from the phone.
clickety pop
A Wuppie is a small fully ball with eyes and feet, created originally by Father Abraham (a crazy Dutch guy who sang tthe Smurf song) . Now its been miniturised into a supermarket give-away for the World Cup, in the traditional colours of Red, White, Blue and of course ORANJE! They are kinda taking over the country with people reporting their cars broken into, all for Wuppies! .. .
Anywho, get your revenge on these evil little marketing tools of the devil (Wuppie stands for “World Unique Promotional Product Identity & Emotion)
KILL THEM NOW!
(thanks leo!)
Just an update to an earlier post.
The new trainline between Schiphol & Utrecht is now running!
The train departs at 13 and 43 minutes past the hour from Platform 3
The 1st stop is Amsterdam WTC, next stop Utrecht. It only takes 29 minutes, which is a reduction of 10 minutes (and no change).. NOTE you do NOT have to change trains!.. you just zoom past Duivendrecht..Huzzah!
Single 7,20
Return 13,30
Go check the trains website www.ns.nl for other information
This week the Dom Tower (aka Dom Toren) has been lit up bright green apparently as part of the campaign for the release of the new Xbox360.
Seems as the ‘arctic front’ has really started to hit here in Holland, as the Dutch say, “nice bad weather”, the wind is so strong that it actually stopped me on the bike today while cycling down Kanaalstraat. I think I’ll now hibernate for the rest of the weekend until I have to brace the cold Monday morning for my exciting new job in Rotterdam.
anywho, to celebrate the bad weather here’s a lovely little song, spelled out quite clearly (although in Dutch) you can view it here or Download FIETS.rar (winrar file here)
music by Henkie – De Fiets
Animation by Michel Mol
The starting conversation goes as follows: “Hey Henkie, lovely cycling weather ay?” (fiets weer), “nice bad weather?” (vies weer), “noo…cycling weather!” and it goes on about how Henkie on his bike that passes correctly by with his tyre, on the wheel….etc etc
sooo…
Mrsmule is in (not so cold) Barcelona, She’ll be most pleased to hear how shocking the weather is here I’m sure.
So while she is away, thoughts turn to love and we’re also having our honeymoon at last…(thanks papamule) we booked a week in Norway (I thought it was cold here!?!) the weather at the moment there is snowy and misty -4 Celcius with a windchill of -10Celcius (GULPS) more Norway weather stats here and a webcam pic taken this afternoon:
Excited???!!!!..LOL
Monday 14 November a sparrow knocked down 23,000 dominos during the setup of ‘ domino D-Day’ and an ateempt at the world record.
We watched a repeat of the domino toppling on TV, it was most amusing.On the train from Rotterdam we we’re taking about the newspaper article, and people around us were joining in the laughter at the thought of some supersharp shooter taking out sparrow among 4 million dominoes.
anywho if you heard about this, here’s the dead sparrows website (which is also reportedly being hacked) and carries a book of condolence, should you wish to pay your respects.
dodemus.nl
and here’s a news article
reuters
and here’s a tree sparrow yesterday
Huge collection of social/urban daily photo life in Utrecht to be found at www.kwark.org
looks like it is updated weekly with random colourful images
found via GeoURL
TIKKY has a lovely new update, as promised it was launched today 01.11.2005. Nice new look!.. I await the lovely new content now.
Lots of lurvley graffitti pics to behold!
woOt!
Recent online charity auction for ToyExpo & the Dutch masters.
Here are the results of the auction – listed in Decending order of final bid price.. with linky goodness!
DHM - €195,00 – 14 bids
Bfree – €149.50 – 8 bids
Two Things – €122.50 – 7 bids
Krusty the Skull – €122.00 – 8 bids
Menno Schenk – €114.00 – 10 bids
Cirque de Pepin – €103.49 – 8 bids
Ckoe – €102.50 – 3 bids
Wood – €96.50 – 7 bids
Keitai – €86.50 – 5 bids
Arjen de Jong – €81.50 – 8 bids
Out of Order – €81.50 – 7 bids
Freakin Sitnie – €71.50 – 4 bids
Tiquestar – €70.00 – 7 bids
Playskewl – €67.00 – 4 bids
Delicious Ink – €66.50 – 5 bids
ATTI – €61.50 – 5 bids
Ottograph – €61.50 – 3 bids
Eelco van den Berg – €50.00 – 3 bids
Ewos – €46.50 – 2 bids
Mamacita – €40.00 – 1 bid
Hypnoteis – €40.00 – 1 bid
Juice – €40.00 – 1 bid
Boxie – €40.00 – 1 bid
robots will kill