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 Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 7:36 pm Post subject:
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My wife and I will be passing through Amsterdam in a few weeks, and we thought we would stay for a few days.
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Unfortunately- our trip has been delayed somewhat.
I will know more details soon. Once I have that info, I'll get back in touch.
Thanks for all of the suggestions! Still looking forward to this trip (whenever it happens), and meeting everyone.
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| Posted: Fri Jun 08, 2007 11:04 pm Post subject:
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wow- thanks for the info.
I gotta find out from Wout where that synth museum he used to work at is. |
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| cappy2112 wrote: | wow- thanks for the info.
I gotta find out from Wout where that synth museum he used to work at is. |
That's in The Hague (Den Haag), about three quarters of an hour from Amsterdam. It's where Rob Hordijk and c.s. lives.
At the moment there isn't much in display, but in Leiden there is an exhibition called 'Soundbites', where some of the instruments (like the modular Moog) are displayed 'in loan'.
The museum in Leiden is called 'Boerhaave'
http://www.museumboerhaave.nl/
Leiden is only half an hour away by train.
Anyway, if you are in our neighborhood (The Hague) we (Rob, Kassen, Kees, maybe Blue Hell, and me) surely like to meet you and your wife and have diner on the beach, if the whether will allow us...
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:11 am Post subject:
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[quote="Wout Blommers"] | cappy2112 wrote: |
Anyway, if you are in our neighborhood (The Hague) we (Rob, Kassen, Kees, maybe Blue Hell, and me) surely like to meet you and your wife and have diner on the beach, if the whether will allow us...
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That sounds great!. Even if the weather isn't good enough to eat outside, I'm sure we can find a place inside.
Is it easy to get to the Hague by train?
If so, would you PM me explicit instructions on how to get there from (and which train)? |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:31 am Post subject:
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if you go to Den Haag YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MAURITSHUIS MUSEUM. Nowhere else you will be able to see the painting that Marcel Proust considered the most beautiful ever painted. You could judge for yourself if he was right 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 9:42 am Post subject:
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So when is this going to happen ? It might be a good excuse for me to go to the Hague for a day 
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:21 pm Post subject:
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| seraph wrote: | | if you go to Den Haag YOU HAVE TO GO TO THE MAURITSHUIS MUSEUM. Nowhere else you will be able to see the painting that Marcel Proust considered the most beautiful ever painted. You could judge for yourself if he was right |
We hope to see at least one art museum while we are there.
We will have basically 2 days, possibly part of a 3rd.
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | So when is this going to happen ? It might be a good excuse for me to go to the Hague for a day |
We are arriving July 3rd, leaving July 6.
How far are you from Amsterdam? From The Hague? |
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 1:30 pm Post subject:
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Good call Carlo! We have recently seen the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring', which is loosely on the painting on the home page of that museum. Just how many art museums are in Amsterdam? And of course, the Van Gogh museum.
(Hmm, 2 days isn't going to cut it, with all that I would like to see.)
How do I convince my boss I need "more time" than I'm already taking? 
It looks like Brussells is about 1 hour away by train.
(and I will be in town 1 month before that event) 
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| cappy2112 wrote: | | We are arriving July 3rd, leaving July 6. |
in the middle of a week, too bad ...
| Quote: | | How far are you from Amsterdam? From The Hague? |
About two hours and a bit, which wouldn't be a problem in a weekend, it is on working days though.
Funny how foreigners seem to know best what to visit here ... I've never even been at most places mentioned (not meaning they are bad suggestions, more like I could always go, and so it never happens).
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | So when is this going to happen ? It might be a good excuse for me to go to the Hague for a day |
Since when do you need an excuse, dear Jan
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| cappy2112 wrote: | | It looks like Brussells is about 1 hour away by train. |
That seems a bit optimistic to me for a 200 km distance (Amsterdam to Brussels), when I try to find a train I get 3 to 4 hours of traveling time.
try this for planning train trips in the Netherlands (or to Brussels).
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| cappy2112 wrote: | Good call Carlo! We have recently seen the movie "Girl with a Pearl Earring', which is loosely based on the girl in the painting on the home page of that museum. Just how many art museums are in Amsterdam? And of course, the Van Gogh museum.
(Hmm, 2 days isn't going to cut it, with all that I would like to see.)
How do I convince my boss I need "more time" than I'm already taking?
It looks like Brussells is about 1 hour away by train.
(and I will be in town 1 month before that event) |
Proust was right, BUT IF Vermeer would have looked over his shoulder, he would have painted 'View on The Hague'
Wout
BTW if you go by train to The Hague, the Mauritshuis with some Rembrandt and Vermeer is at walking distance of the Central Station.
If you and your wife have decided about your plans, let us know. |
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| Wout Blommers wrote: | Since when do you need an excuse, dear Jan :D
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Ah Wout you know, 'need' is such a big word ...
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | Ah Wout you know, 'need' is such a big word ... |
Motivation 
If you want I always have a spare bed.
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 6:21 pm Post subject:
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| Wout Blommers wrote: |
Anyway, if you are in our neighborhood (The Hague) we (Rob, Kassen, Kees, maybe Blue Hell, and me) surely like to meet you and your wife and have diner on the beach, if the whether will allow us...
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Sure. If I'm around and nothing is claiming my time I'll be there.
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Funny how foreigners seem to know best what to visit here ... I've never even been at most places mentioned (not meaning they are bad suggestions, more like I could always go, and so it never happens). |
don't worry Jan it's always like that. I live in a city "crowded" with museums but I have not seen all of them even though there is people coming from all over the world to see them (and, as a result, there are, almost always, very long waiting lines in front of them).
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| Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 11:41 pm Post subject:
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | [Funny how foreigners seem to know . |
It was the same with me. There were many sites of interest I never saw in my home state (same town Mosc is from ), until I moved to California. Now when I go back to visit family, we usually get to see something new each time. |
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| Blue Hell wrote: | | cappy2112 wrote: | | We are arriving July 3rd, leaving July 6. |
in the middle of a week, too bad ...
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You look as though you could use a day off .... |
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| cappy2112 wrote: | | You look as though you could use a day off .... |
What do I see!?!
Real people?
I thought a pot smoking cat was coming this way!
Wout
who isn't a patch cord really... |
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| Blue Hell wrote: |
Funny how foreigners seem to know best what to visit here ... |
That's why I once stayed home during my holidays and acted like a foreigner, who knows to talk Dutch very well. I visited all the sites in my town all those strangers do. I learned a lot, even about myself...
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 10:50 am Post subject:
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| Wout Blommers wrote: |
who isn't a patch cord really... |
Well, if you don't look like a patch cord, then I'll have a hard time finding you in The Hague.
(I've seen images of Rob, Kees, Kassen, and Jan) |
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| cappy2112 wrote: | | Wout Blommers wrote: |
who isn't a patch cord really... |
Well, if you don't look like a patch cord, then I'll have a hard time finding you in The Hague.
(I've seen images of Rob, Kees, Kassen, and Jan) |
Well...
Who is who?
The blond guy is Joker Nies.
Pictures made on board the ferry bringing us to Great Britain.
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| Posted: Sun Jun 10, 2007 3:27 pm Post subject:
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| Wout Blommers wrote: |
The blond guy is Joker Nies.
Pictures made on board the ferry bringing us to Great Britain.
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I would think the gent in the white shirt is Rob, and you must be sitting next to him.
In the lower picture, I think that Kees on on the left. |
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