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2021

June

Amsterdam’s architecture under dramatic May skies

May

My Covid-19 vaccination story Cherry blossoms and rose-ringed parakeets

April

My last flight

February

The Night mode on iPhone

January

Discovering Vilhelm Hammershøi Curfew in the Netherlands A long rant about the second Covid-19 wave in the Netherlands 2020: My year in music

2020

August

The story of my integration tests (Inburgeringsexamen)

July

The library during the lockdown

May

Sort-of-quarantine Diaries, Day whatever: The Haircut King’s Day in the time of a pandemic

April

Quarantine Diaries, Day 35 Quarantine Diaries, Day 34 Quarantine Diaries, Day 33 Quarantine Diaries, Day 32 Quarantine Diaries, Day 31 Quarantine Diaries, Day 30 Quarantine Diaries, Day 29 Quarantine Diaries, Day 28 Quarantine Diaries, Day 27 Quarantine Diaries, Day 26 Quarantine Diaries, Day 25 Quarantine Diaries, Day 24 Quarantine Diaries, Day 23 Quarantine Diaries, Day 22 Quarantine Diaries, Day 21 Quarantine Diaries, Day 20 Quarantine Diaries, Day 19 Quarantine Diaries, Day 18 Quarantine Diaries, Day 17

March

Quarantine Diaries, Day 16 Quarantine Diaries, Day 15 Quarantine Diaries, Day 14

January

The old cassette player 2019: My year in music

2019

December

A day trip to Capri

November

A gable stone for a time traveller from the past

October

Patterns of bricks on sidewalks of Amsterdam

September

Listening to the soundtrack of Tezaab after 25+ years Heatwaves Impressionism in Canada

July

Postcards from New York City

June

Spring Snow

April

Spring A visit to the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid

February

A day in Pisa

January

The bathroom drain 2018: My year in music

2018

December

Pictures from a foggy day in Amsterdam London Redux

November

London Autumn Light

October

A personal history of video games

August

A very warm July

June

Day Calendar as a plot device

April

The tiled façades of Porto

March

Two Hong Kong trips seventeen years apart

January

2017: My year in music

2017

November

Man and machine The photos in the corridor

October

Spoke too soon? Summer is over Zippers

September

My top three favourite movies

June

Summer 2017 in Amsterdam… Appreciating Trees Seville - Day 2

May

Rainbow over Brouwersgracht

April

Phone cameras and depth of field Seville - Day 1 Spring

March

Blue skies and teapots

February

Kaleidoscopic Dutch houses Warped

January

A little mixed up On global warming 2016: My year in music

2016

December

My Dangal Review

October

Autumn colours in Amsterdam Bergen’s Funicular Winter’s footsteps A musical street in Istanbul

September

From Bergen to Flåm and back Welcome to my new blog!

February

Global warming etc.

2015

August

Mariza in Amsterdam Photoblog: Photo #75 - De Lezende Kip

June

In which Amsterdam poses me a musical riddle

May

Photoblog: Photo #71 - The antique book/art shop

March

On watercolours

2014

December

A bridge in Cologne On Vivian Maier

September

Photoblog: Photo #48 - Scale

August

Photoblog: Photo #47 - The view from IJdok

March

Even and odd

2013

April

Seeing faces

March

You and I and gro-cer-y

February

Marken’s wintery landscape

2012

December

Not all who wander are lost The canal in IKEA’s Amsterdam photo

September

Unfinished books

April

Cricket: a year on

February

On coming back to Amsterdam A personal history of listening to music — the record player

January

A personal history of listening to music — the old radio Florence Cathedral

2011

November

Fogged up

October

Marken - Volendam - Edam

September

In which I try to define homesickness

June

This non-committal summer

May

The Book Fair at Dam Square If music be the… Rough Draft: On Letting Go Maastricht The Old New Home at Amstelveen Koninginnedag (Queen’s Day) in Amsterdam

April

Rough Draft: Spring/Summer etc. Keukenhof Rough Draft: The first three days in Amsterdam

2010

November

That nagging feeling

August

Karthik Raja ‘borrows’ from Mahler

July

Ladakh in April - Day 4 - Snowfall in Leh

June

Number 9 Dream

April

iPad vs Kindle vs Wood pulp

2009

September

Ladakh Vacation - Day 1

August

Notes from a Coorg visit in June

April

Munnar Yet another short trip to Coorg

February

Devdas - of the Kamal Haasan variety

January

From today, I won’t be mopey about mops Ghajini or how I shouldn’t have begun my new year

2008

December

My dogged determination to sleep runs into dogs

September

Cambridge A Crow

August

The Lion King Galaxies 61 Years Of Indian Independence Devil May Care Mendicant An Archer Framed Into A Wall Hungry Pigeons + Fries = Chaos Electric Monochromatic Rainbow Bhutan Redux

July

Three Heads Stamens Crouching Monkey Hidden Lens Pitter-Patter Hangin’ About It’s lonely out here

May

Bhutan - Last Day - Paro Bhutan - Day 4 - Wangdue, Punakha Bhutan - Day 3.2 - Bhumtang Bhutan - Day 3.1 - Trongsa Dzong Bhutan - Day 2 - Thimpu To Trongsa Bhutan - Day 1 - Phuentsholing to Thimpu Bhutan - Day 0 - Getting There

2007

April

A Short Trip To Coorg

2006

May

Photofriday: The Road There are other colors too

April

Coffee Bean Tan