Family

 

My sister Rebekka has returned from a month in Chile so the family had a little get-together. Luca was happy to see his cousin Boaz, Matthies enjoyed some quality time with his grandfather and Uncle Ben was roped in for some additional babysitting. 

Dirty strike

The last few weeks the garbage collectors in Amsterdam have been on strike. As a result the streets are no longer cleaned and are full of ever increasing piles of garbage. Across from me there is a garbage collection point with underground storage that was filled up quickly. 

Late night Genius

Instead of watching another downloaded episode of one the American series I follow, I ended up enjoying iTunes and the magic that is the Genius Mix. Culled from my eclectic music library Steve Jobs and his minions at Apple presented me with songs from Kylie, Toni Braxton, Matt Munro, the Dreamsgirls soundtrack, All Saints, Take That, George Michael, Boyz II Men and others. The 90s hits made me think of all those times as students my friends and I would spend our evening playing songs from each others cd collection. Nothing beats musical nostalgia...