The walk

I went for a walk in the Amsterdamse bos (Amsterdam forrest) with Simone and her kids. The weather was great.

This is the open air theatre.

Some art...

Flowers.

In the evening Marjolein came over for dinner and afterwards we went to Mulligans. Jon, Alex and Kees were there as well. We laughed a lot :-)

I played "which beer mat does not belong in this collection?"

There was a session as well. Some balkan musicians were attending, they were pretty good!

The conference

I was attending a conference of forensic mental health organised by the Dutch ministry of public safety and justice. This conference was about treating people for mental disorders by court order. The software that I work on can be (and is) used by a few mental hospitals.

I went there by train.

The location was pretty cool.

It was held in a converted old factory.

They left a lot of spaces looking very raw.

I liked.

I wonder what the spaces were used for when it was still a factory.

This was one of the more interesting talks. The host was telling about how he asked his patients before each session to rate how they were feeling about themselves, their surroundings, their place in society and in total. If the treatment is going well this should increase over time. If it doesn't, something's wrong with the treatment or the patient just can't be treated...

Nice conference!

Same place as the first picture but then 8 hours later on the way back.

I went straight to the pub where I met Mic. We had a pint and then went for shoarma! God that stuff is delish! Mic smiled for a photo by accident ;-)

Then we went back to the pub for more Guinness.

Alex came in as well. Sean was behind the bar and we had a lot of laughs together. It was a good night.

Halloween 2013

I quickly shot this photo while walking to the tram stop. I like it.

In the evening Marjolein came over for dinner and then we went to Mulligans for halloween. She wasn't the only devil, Paddy was one too!

Miriam.

Barry.

Yours truly.

Kees.

Petra.

Jos and Danny.

Martijn and Patricia.

All of us.

And Alex was there as well.

The old sugar factory

I went to Zwanenburg to look at a new garage for my car. The new train station is right next to the old sugar factory that they are converting in to a shopping area.

Main building of the old factory.

The old silos have already been converted in to.... something...

When i came home again I went in to town to get some new clothes. I passed the "Papagaai" church and noticed it was open. I went in to have a look. Not many people know there is a full blown church in the Kalverstraat.

I lit a candle for the friends I've lost the past years. They died so young...

Then I went for 1 pint. Ended up having 4, without lunch. Needed food BAD so got Indian with Gerrit and Alex. I should've made them pay as it was mainly them who got me halfway drunk and hungry! ;-)

The Kitzsteinhorn, again!

Click the photos for bigger, sometimes JUMBO-TRON sizes!

So this morning I open the blinds and low and behold, the clouds have gone and it's bright and sunny!

The plan for today was to walk around the Zeller see but since the weather is so good we decided to go to the Kitzsteinhorn one more time to actually enjoy the views.

We caught the bus at the train station, which is next to the Zeller see. Never miss an opportunity for lake photos!

It was quiet and calm and even the ducks were lazing in the sun.

So here we are again. This time we can actually see all the way up the first part of the mountain.

There were icicles the size of a small tree!

That sky...

Below we saw traces of little mountain creatures everywhere.

Pretty soon we felt like we were on top of the world.

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Marlon came with us because Alex was ehm... not quite fit enough for anything at the time ;-)

My sunshine.

Me.

Mountains.

The Kitzsteinhorn with the Gipfelwelt lookout point.

Lookout point.

The view was sensational. It felt like there was nothing higher. (Actually there is a mountain called "Großglockner" not too far away which is Austria's highest mountain and stands 3798 metres tall).

Being high.

Compare this with yesterday's photo. There is actually a view!

"Is the photo done yet?" I was a bit quick with looking back...

More view.

We only had time for a quick tea but it was a nice rest.

Then we had to go down again. This is the tallest pylon in the world.

One of the rides.

Awesome-ness.

Marlon. She was actually quite brave today because she's afraid of heights!

Marjoleintje :-)

One of my favourite mountain tops.

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When we came back we had a few drinks.

Alex' drink, my new drink, my old drink, Bas' drink.

After an early dinner at 4PM we packed up and the exodus started. Here Bjorn and my boss Hans are walking past.

Marjolein with Geert, Norbert, Alex, Marlon and Ira's sister in the background.

"Chippies" (ChipSoft employees) started walking towards the station from all directions like little streams forming a river.

Marlon and Alex.

Bye bye Zell am see. Till next time! :-)