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I'm looking forward to summer. I won't spend my days wandering around Amsterdam with my friends like last year because we'll be in Australia for 5 weeks. But I bought a ticket for deBeschaving and hoping to get a ticket to London as well, so it's going to be wonderful.

Pictures of our tiny kitchen in Eindhoven and our (much bigger) roof terrace.

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Last year I lived on a boat in Amsterdam for a while.

Living on a ship in the (in my opinion) most beautiful neighbourhood of Amsterdam was very special.

And even though the room was tiny and the heater never really worked and naked grumpy guys would scare you and it was a big adventure to get there with snow, I still miss it every now and then because I lived with an amazing little group of people and I loved coming home there.

It's too late. I'm getting nostalgic.

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"It's blue and yellow and you die when you eat it.."

"A poisenous snake?"

"Wrong! A train."

"I'm not so sure about that, nobody ever tried."

I hope you all had a nice Christmas. I did.

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I dyed my hair pink last week or so. It's only temporary, although I quite enjoy the washed out gingerish colour it has now. I also have a new camera (Nikon D70, I already had one but he kept giving up on me so I bought a new secondhand body and this one works a lot better) and I'm bit by a vampire.

I have friends coming over in a few hours for a photoshoot, so you'll probably see more of that later.

Love,

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I like to look at this street. The absence of cars, the well-kept gardens, the lovely old people and the way it can catch the light beautifully, makes it seem like it's a street from a dated movie where the women dress in beautiful long dresses with flowers and pastel colours and with their hair big and poofy and soft and shiny, and the men wear grey suits and kiss their wives on the forehead before they head off to the office.

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I like following people.

I listen to this today.

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About 9 years ago, my parents decided to move out of the city and to this little town. I didn't understand it back then. We had a life in the city, with friends and memories.

For as long as I can remember, I've been attracted to bigger places, places that will always have undiscovered bits left, places where you can be completely alone and anonymous. I could not see the beauty of this little town where everybody seems to know each other and where every day seems the same. But now that I've seen that there is more out there in the world, now that I don't live here anymore, I start to see the beauty of it. And on those rare days when I have nothing to do, no where to go, I'd like to walk through the castle's parc and to the river and just enjoy the beauty of it all. And it's days like this, that I can see why my parents fell in love with this place.

Love,