The buildings

From the ferry this morning. I really like these buildings. Great architecture I think.

This big-ass cruise ship came in.

The Chevy / Sail 2015

This car's been parked in my hood for a few weeks now. It's a Chevy, possibly an Impala but I'm not sure. The plate is from Turkey. That was a long drive!

It's in reasonably good shape though.

Nice!

From the ferry I saw this yellow submarine docked close to my work.

Today Sail 2015 started which means a lot of tall ships were sailing past my work. I went up the roof with some colleagues to make photos. I was a bit early so I took some photos of the surroundings.

The "Kraanspoor" building. You need to click the photo to enlarge so you can actually see it ;-)

Colleagues walking down below.

The first tall ship to sail past was the "Stad Amsterdam".

One of my bosses was flying a professional drone with a camera which was very cool! The police doesn't think it's cool though so he pulled it in when the chopper came very close ;-)

A navy ship was second.

A guy from the shipyard next door made the painting booth his personal skybox :-)

Pigs in space ;-)

More ships followed, click the photos for larger versions:

This is a secret in our building. A little bar in the top of the little tower. It's got a beer-tap, sink and a fridge. It's friggin' dirty upthere but it's professionally made with very nice wood.

Ceiling light.

And then more ships came:

It was fun seeing all those ships sail past but I couldn't stay till the last one...

In the evening I cycled to the other side of Amsterdam Noord with Simone and Milan to see where he had to go the next morning.

The MSC Splendida

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When I went to work this fine morning, my ferry passed this incredibly big cruise ship. Lateron today I read in the news that this was the largest cruise ship ever to dock in the Dam. I have to say, it was very impressive.

Welcome from the Amsterdam harbour.

The MSC Splendida. Huge.

On the way home I tried standing in the shade of a pole because it has gotten a bit hot in the sun nowadays. Summer must be arriving soon!

The dragonfly

This little guy is docked outside the office. I don't think it belongs to a colleague. They usually come by car...

I found a dead dragonfly in the hallways at work. It was lying there just like this. It's a little bit damaged though, odd. This is a frontal view.

Top view.

Side view. I like it. Never managed to see one from this close. Usually they don't sit still very well ;-)

In the evening I went to Diewertje. She's moving house soon and needs to get rid of some plants. I took some home. She can have them back when she has room for them. I hope they like it here with me...

Chimneys, ships and a crane

It was very cold today but the sky was clear so I took my big camera with me to take photos.

Small chimney.

Big chimney.

The Psycho Cowboy is still there. I'm waiting for it to just sink. There's already holes in the damn thing on the other side where it bangs against the concrete block...

Sailing ship.

Old NDSM wharf crane in the morning.

Old NDSM wharf crane in the evening.

The repair manual

I received the book about repairing Mustangs with V8 engines today. I bought it second had for a tenner. Nice!

I felt like opening the blinds today and put plants in the window. It made it look nice and warm and homey, I think I'll do it every day from now on!

Here's Tanja in front of a flying ship.

Told ya it flies...

The crane ship

This morning when I arrived at work I noticed the crane ship was lifted out of the water a little.

A little higher towards the end of the morning.

Lunchtime.

Mid afternoon.

And it was all the way up when I went home again.

Pretty awesome structure. It's actually delivered at it's destination by another ship that it sits on. Then the ship lowers and the crane ship maneuvers it's self in place.