Coffee

My downstairs neighbours got married today.

After going to the market with Nicole we had coffee at a newly discovered coffee place and it was indeed very nice!

I played some wow today. I was wearing my easter bunny suit.

I was checked.

Pardon me. I'm writing this blog as I come home from the pub and I'm tired...

Close to the hospital where I needed to go this morning they built some new pretty OK looking apartment buildings. These days a lot of new buildings actually look pretty alright. They use different stones / materials for different buildings which makes it look lively and the concrete blocks had pictures in them.

I had an appointment here.

On the way back home I scored a double pad-holder for my coffee maker. It's usable but I still have doubts wether or not it is the right model...

Waiting for the ferry I noticed the large amount of cigarette butts on the ground. It is rather fucking disgusting and I'd like to ask every smoker that I know to please not throw their cigarette butts on the ground but in the bin instead.

After lunch the ice cream van drove by at work.

I scored: Banana and chocolate.

After work I played two games of MTG. I lost one game from Norbert (left).

And I won a game against Geert while enjoying a nice Belgian beer that was brought in by a Belgian colleague today.

The building that burned down was surrounding a kind of separate new building on the corner. This building was spared thankfully but now you can see that doors were made between the two buildings. Lucky for them the door at the bottom floor in the middle was able to withstand the fire...

A bloody miracle more rare than the crying madonna happened today; my tram ticket was checked! Only once every 100 years or so your ticket will be checked. I guess Amsterdam is safe for a while now.

I went to the pub in the evening. I'm sorry but the music was not my thing.

Nevertheless, the company was good! From left to right: Jon K, Mr. Baker, Danny and myself.

The soup collection.

Leidseplein on my way to work.

The soup collection at work. Generally I find them smelly...

Cranes.

My friend Stephen Collins and his hair.

Stephen, Nic and I had dinner and then had a few beers.

The war-head.

After jet-setting around Austria life seems bleak today ;-) My high light was this piece of candy offered by a colleague. It was very sour indeed. A lemon tastes sweet compared to this flavour-feast!

Do not feed the monkey.

Feeding time!

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Arrival in Amsterdam. I can't see anything yellow for a while I think...

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Our neighbours have started taking care of a measle-ship.

The food-fairy had made me a batch of Dahl (also knows as dhal or daal) which I turned in to three lunches. Thank you food-fairy! :-)

The exodus

I thought I'd go see what's going on in Kaprun on the second day of Easter. So I took the bus.

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There was this pretty little church...

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Apart from that there were InterSport stores on every corner that were open and EVERYTHING else was closed. It was DEAD. I had to wait 30 minutes for my bus too...

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In the afternoon we checked out of our very nice hotel. We had great service, great food and very nice rooms. It was all good in hotel Tirolerhof.

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And then there was the yellow exodus. The people of Zell am See can take off their sun glasses again.

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We waited for our train at the station.

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Three colleagues and a friend of theirs. They were just a liiiittle bit tired ;-P

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My colleague Alex and his lovely wife. I missed the opportunity to say bye so if you read this: It was nice meeting you! :-)

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And then it got busy. We fit 7 people in our 5 person cabin for some poker. Sylvester was showing off his old-style "Happy hardcore" moves. (To get him to do this, make sure he's tired and tipsy!)

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Poker. (Mom - the money is just for decoration!)

The Zeller see walk.

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Todays activity was an 11Km walk around the Zeller see.

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The water is crystal clear.

I went with my colleague Kim, her boyfriend and another fun colleague who's name I just can't remember (sorry!)

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Again, awesome views.

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Boats. During the summer there must be a thousand of these little boats.

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The town of Kaprun lies behind that mountain. It's about 3000 metres high.

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Zell am See from the other side of the lake.

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We had lunch in the sun. It was warm and spirits were high :-)

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Duckies came to say hello.

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When I got back to the hotel I had a shower and a nap. Before lunch I had a beer with a few colleagues.