Latest addition to my blog http://www.hansgroen.com Sat, 27 Aug 2011 16:50:17 +0200 Via the link, you can buy prints and downloads of the best pictures I took.
And here is the link directly to the gallery page where you can find more pictures of the Hartjesdagen 2011, and other events.]]>http://www.oypo.nl/pixxer.asp?id=0C9903608DF394A3 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 08:44:39 +0200pictures, and I also took the opportunity to extend the list of gps-tracks with routes that will lead you along the fields.]]> Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:11:11 +0100Edelweiss) was one of the first of these connections, and specially for this service, these trains were build and were put into service in 1957. Decommissioned in de mid 70s, they served in Ontario. Four coaches are now back in Holland and being restored in their original colours. It is a far cry from the deplorable state Dutch Railways are in now. High speed connections take too long to build and start service. Everyone is blaming each other, and the privatisation. It's rather incompetence and total disinterest of the parties involved, I think. A real shame, because travelling by train is so enjoyable. Luckily other companies are doing their best. DB, for one, has plans to put in a direct link between Amsterdam and London.
Above the train sitting east of Amsterdam Central station; one coach still showes the partly stripped colours from Ontario.]]>http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nederlands-Zwitsers_TEE-treinstel Sun, 19 Dec 2010 11:09:40 +0100If you think the image is a bit bubbled: it is a scan from the paper bag I got, which traveled back home in my backpack.]]>http://www.wdrmaus.de/ Mon, 29 Nov 2010 20:45:34 +0100I have published an internet book called "Naar de Stad." Unfortunately for people who do not speak Dutch it is in Dutch. It contains reflections and ideas on city life, city building, city decay, encounter and public life, gardens and promises. Enough interesting stuff for you to check if there is a Dutch course available near you. The lucky people who do speak Dutch are invited to walk around through the pages. As I say in Dutch: "Ga wat grasduinen over het asfalt en tussen het beton."http://www.hansgroen.com/NaarDeStad/ Sat, 27 Nov 2010 17:31:20 +0100On behalf of the Foundation Christian Social Congress and the Foundation Socires, I am developing a website for the European Social Weeks. Similar to the website of the Christian Social Congress, this website will be a meeting place for organisations and people. That is a challenge, because internet and social websites are basically made, populated, and visited by persons, not organisations. However, there is the potential that it can be more, and that lively clusters/networks of organisations can be formed -- a facebook for organisations so to say.