The most fun since… On line at the Dutch post office website you may create your own stamps. This is just a sampling of what I’ve done. You choose between national and international, upload your design/picture/whatever and within 36 hours you have the finished product in your mail box. There is the surcharge of about …
Author Archives: The Chronicler
My New Flame
Life is good if I have fire! Discovered this unopened and packaged in a box in my favorite second hand store. The description on the box was German, but hey, close enough to Dutch. It is the most fun idea. Bio-ethanol. Supposed to be the future of indoor fires. At the inauguration, did invite the …
In This Day & Age
Who ever thought this packaging was appropriate. This is from a “Wegman’s” sort of grocery store. First the display of all the sorts of licorice available and then the particularly offending one.
A Scandal of the Highest Order
Tourists are being ripped off at Amsterdam’s famous flower market, with just 1% of bulbs sold at the floating bazaar ever producing a blossom, investigators have said. An inquiry commissioned by the Dutch capital’s municipality and tulip growers also found often only one flower resembled the pictures on the packaging, and that there were fewer bulbs than …
The Light Fall
The theory is that the water in the air makes the light fall unlike light fall in other places. This is a good example.
More Hermitage
This ‘tool kit’ was in the possession of the lady-in-waiting 24/7. Worn either as a necklace on a chain or attached at the waist in a style similar to a watch fob. All the little tools are made of gold.
All These Years!
When I moved to the Netherlands as a sweet young thing, there was so much to learn, especially on the culinary front. One lesson I took in was not to purchase kale before a freeze had hit the fields. The reason? The frost changed the chemistry, made the kale sweeter. Well what do you know. …
Now THAT’S Power.
Casually docked in the small harbor. Could not take my eyes off the power on the stern.
A Modern Train Station
This train station used to remind me of New York City’s Penn Station. Oppressive spaces, old fixtures, low ceilings, not welcoming, but efficient. [Penn Station has been upgraded with some major improvements, therefore no longer so dark] But this station has had more than a face lift. This is a total body redo. The accompanying …
Travels #3
This was the wood pattern on the back of the door in an Airbnb where I stayed. What I saw? What do you see?