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Halloween and DÃa de los Muertos decoration at the Mexican Frontierland area. Excellent designed decorations full of color and ofcourse not scary at all.
DÃa de los Muertos - or The Day of the Dead is a Mexican holiday celebrated throughout Mexico, in particular the Central and South regions, and by people of Mexican heritage elsewhere.
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Disneyland Paris - Frontierland
Disneyland Paris - an entertainment resort near Paris, France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #DisneylandParis #France #halloween #event / #decoration
Fried Rings.
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Crunchy and inside just right and not overcooked. One should use the lemon, it add's a fresh touch.
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Schmidt Zeevis - Culinair
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #culinair #lunch #Culinair #restaurant #SchmidtZeevis in #Rotterdam #Netherlands
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Foggy morning at the historic fortifications, The fog and silence changes the atmosphere, it conceals what is otherwise visible and gives color to the image which is actually shaded in gray.
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Fortifications - during the time of the United Provinces Hellevoetsluis was the naval port of the Admiralty of de Maze (Rotterdam) and could accommodate an entire fleet within a special land-enclosed fortress with harbour and dockyard facilities, accessible through a canal. Thanks to its strategic situation the town grew from the beginning of the 17th century to be the homeport for the Dutch war fleet. In later years the port was fortified more and more and Hellevoetsluis therefore became a unique combination of fortified town and naval port.
The Admirals Maarten Tromp, Michiel de Ruyter and Piet Heyn had their home base here and in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution William III of Orange's invasion fleet departed from the port.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellevoetsluis
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Weather - "Fog" (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Only a king draws the Excalibur sword, it's locked solid but someday it will release for the right person to be the new King just like Merlin said.
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Disneyland Paris - formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort near Paris , France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
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About Pixels - #Excalibur #sword - #DisneylandPark #FR
A few chairs and a table. Worn out but every year still there. It's a common view in many French villages, people are used to take a seat outside in many months of the year.
It's one of those excellent places to sit and enjoy this medieval town. It looks a bit worn out but that's because of frequent use, a French custom. Imagine, just add a nice French coffee, a crispy Croissant and the local newspaper. It's one of those many healthy moments of peace in the outdoors.
Over the years, not much has really changed in this corner, at most the grape stump with fresh green leaves in early spring and to see how the grape bunches mature during the summer and autumn. Who wouldn't want to have their own terrace like this, and the time and opportunity to use it almost the whole year round.
Photo: Watching the seasons go by - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 11 Pro) / #terrace #outdoors - #urban #weather #climate / #UrbanPhotography at #MedievalCenter in #Monpazier, #Dordogne - #France
July 2023, Monpazier (Est. 1285) after 738 years in history. The year 2035 marks 750 years in the timeline of its history.
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Monpazier: Urban Photography
The small village Monpazier, a 13th-century bastide town, founded in 1285 and built by King Edward I of England for trade, commerce and justice. It almost didn't change in the past centuries, a medieval town square lined with an arched arcade, a 16th-century covered market, three of the original six rampared city gates remain and many other traces of medieval history. This picturesque small village is one of the "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France" villages, said to be one of the most atractive in southwest France.
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Beeld Frater Venantius (Wim Sonneveld).
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Beeld "Frater Venantius" (Wim Sonneveld). bronzen beeld gemaakt door kunstenares Nelly Vincken uit Valkenburg.
Deze zingende frater, een typetje van cabaretier Wim Sonneveld bezorgde het dorp in de jaren vijftig van de vorige eeuw landelijke bekendheid.
Het liedje "Zeg maar ja tegen het leven" werd een grote hit. Destijds was er ook de nodige kritiek. Veel Limburgers vonden het beledigend..
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Schin op Geul
Willem (Wim) Sonneveld (Utrecht, 28 juni 1917 – Amsterdam, 8 maart 1974) was een Nederlands cabaretier, zanger en acteur. Hij wordt als een van de "Grote Drie van het Nederlandse cabaret" van na de Tweede Wereldoorlog beschouwd, samen met Toon Hermans en Wim Kan.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / Frater Venantius Art in #SchinopGeul #Netherlands
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Demonstration SAR helicopter and Rescue Brigade. Together with the rescue brigade, the KNRM, divers and brave volunteers, a SAR helicopter shows what skills are needed to provide assistance on the water. And this is still in good weather what is different at sea...
Photo August 2015, Vestingdagen (August 25, 1979) after 36 years in time.
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Vestingdagen
The Vestingdagen (Fortress Days) in Hellevoetsluis, an annual multi-day event since 1979. Very popular and with lots of activities in and around the former naval base of the Netherlands. With many historic and vintage ships and vehicles, steam engines, fair and market, various types of demonstrations in the air and ofcourse on the water. Also, lots to do like short boattrips, visit the various musea, watch the naval parade and fireworks show late at night. With about 200.000 visitors in total a well attended event.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #SAR #ResqueBrigade #event #Vestingdagen in #Hellevoetsluis #Netherlands
Buzz Lightyear attraction scenes - the backstory of the ride revolves around the attempts of Evil Emperor Zurg to steal the batteries (known as "crystallic fusion cells") used to power the space vehicles of the "Little Green Men". Participants are "Star Command" raw recruits sent to defeat Zurg.
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Disneyland Paris - formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort near Paris , France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
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About Pixels - #BuzzLightyear - #DisneylandPark #FR
Who needs a crowded supermarket.
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Smaller shops often provide better products and service.
Photo February 2023, Landwinkel Klok (2012) after 11 years in time.
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Landwinkel Klok - Shopping
Supermarket Landwinkel Klok - Apples, pears, plums and cherries are grown on this farm in a sustainable and environmentally conscious way. In the old barn you will find a large country shop, where you can find many other healthy products besides fruit. There is farm cheese, fresh farm dairy, local beef, vegetables & fruit, and many organic foods.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #interior #shop #Shopping #landwinkel #farmersmarket #LandwinkelKlok in #Vierpolders #Netherlands
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The cheese shop, from front to back a typical Dutch building with many nice elements such as a bridge over an old canal. Renovated with taste to the current state in which the past has not been affected. An almost timeless image in which the urban past is still clearly visible. That is precisely what makes the old city center so attractive, an area where modern, sleek architecture has not yet struck and the city still retains its history.
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Gouda - Architecture
Gouda - a city and municipality in the west of the Netherlands, between Rotterdam and Utrecht, in the province of South Holland. Famous for its Gouda cheese, stroopwafels, many canals, smoking pipes, and its 15th-century city hall. Its array of historic churches and other buildings makes it a very popular day trip destination.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gouda,_South_Holland.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #Gouda #Netherlands / #canal
Culinairy gem of Zeeland - Oysters.
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Oysters, a real specialty and delicacy. You smell and taste the salty water and sometimes experience it as the fresh surf of the sea.
Photo August 2012, Restaurant BRU17 Habraken (2012) after 0 years in time.
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Richard Poppelaars at #RestaurantBRU17 #Restaurant #BRU17Habraken in #Bruinisse - #Zeeland / #Netherlands
© About Pixels Photography - #AboutPixels #culinair / #meal #oyster.
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BRU17 Habraken
Visrestaurant BRU17 Habraken, a restaurant and fish shop specializing in mussels and many types of fresh fish and sea specialities.
The restaurant has numerous regional fish specialties on the menu and the adjoining fish shop has a wide range of products to choose from. Together they form a culinary gem in Zeeland. BRU17 is the second location along with the shop and smaller restaurant in the harbor of Stellendam.
Info: www.bru17.nl.
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Buzz Lightyear - the backstory of the ride revolves around the attempts of Evil Emperor Zurg to steal the batteries (known as "crystallic fusion cells") used to power the space vehicles of the "Little Green Men". Participants are "Star Command" raw recruits sent to defeat Zurg.
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Disneyland Paris - formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort near Paris , France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
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About Pixels - #BuzzLightyear - #DisneylandPark #FR
Among Mammoths and other prehistoric giants.
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The skeleton of the Mammoth is giant, the museum indoor section also includes a model showing how these giants actually must have looked like. Around it, various other prehistoric, some very rare, finds.
Photo April 2017, Historyland (May 28th, 2016) after 1 years in time.
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Historyland
Historyland, a unique historical theme park and museum in Hellevoetsluis. One with a high educational value. Many themes, from prehistory to the recent past that belong to history, are exhibited here. Mostly life-sized models or even real objects comprise the ever-growing collection. Often with an educational character in which you can even participate actively, such as participating in paleontological excavations or prospecting for gold, make this theme park particularly suitable as a learning environment. The park and a number of buildings offer enough subjects for a nice day with lots of fun but also an educational day.
Info: historyland.nl.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #mammoth #fossil #museum #themepark #Historyland in #Hellevoetsluis #Netherlands
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Amsterdam Expo - National Geographic "Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition" (Amsterdam 2014).
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Titanic Artifact Exhibition - National Geographic
RMS Titanic - a British passenger liner that sank in the North Atlantic Ocean in the early hours of 15 April 1912, after colliding with an iceberg during her maiden voyage from Southampton to New York City. There were an estimated 2,224 passengers and crew aboard, and more than 1,500 died. RMS Titanic was the largest ship afloat at the time, an Olympic-class ocean liner operated by the White Star Line.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic
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Amsterdam Expo - National Geographic "Titanic - The Artifact Exhibition" (Amsterdam 2014).
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #Amsterdam #Netherlands / #TitanicArtifactExhibition #AmsterdamExpo / #Titanic #exhibition #NationalGeographic
Botanic illumination by Lotus flowers and Water Lilies (or Nymphéas) at the Aquatic labyrinth - a stunning collection of more than 250 different species with beautiful flowers, large in size and in various colours. The long paths just above the waterline allow visitors to get very close to the flowers.
Photo: Lotus flowers and Water Lilies - by © Richard Poppelaars #About_Pixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 11 Pro) / #pond #flower #waterlily - #garden #Arboretum #botanicalgarden / #NaturePhotography at #WatergardensofCarsac #JardinsdeEau in #CarsacAillac, #Dordogne - #France
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Carsac-Aillac: Jardins de Eau - Nature Photography
The "Les Jardins d'Eau de Carsac", translated "The Water Gardens of Carsac", dedicated to the luxuriance of lotus, water lilies, exotic and tropical water lilies. The Three hectares of garden and lush vegetation includes a unique Aquatic labyrinth with a more than 500 meters long footbridge between aquatic flora and fauna. Also an arboretum with frogs and dragonflies who will guide the visitors.
Take a rest at the picnic area or visit the gift shop, nursery and aquatic garden center or enjoy feeding Japanese Koi carp.
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Dinosaurs - masters of the Pleistoceen foodchain.
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It is a somewhat strange sight in the landscape of the park. Scattered throughout the park in the Dinopark section are replicas of various dinosaurs such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, Triceratops, Velociraptor, Brachiosaurus and many others. Visitors can even participate in paleontological excavations. Inside the Historic Farmhouse, several real dinosaur fossils are on display, including bones, teeth, eggs, etc..
Photo April 2017, Historyland (May 28th, 2016) after 1 years in time.
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Historyland - Dinosaurs
Historyland, a unique historical theme park and museum in Hellevoetsluis. One with a high educational value. Many themes, from prehistory to the recent past that belong to history, are exhibited here. Mostly life-sized models or even real objects comprise the ever-growing collection. Often with an educational character in which you can even participate actively, such as participating in paleontological excavations or prospecting for gold, make this theme park particularly suitable as a learning environment. The park and a number of buildings offer enough subjects for a nice day with lots of fun but also an educational day.
Info: historyland.nl.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #Pleistocene #dinosaur #head #Dinosaurs #museum #themepark #Historyland in #Hellevoetsluis #Netherlands
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Laguiole - Style de Vie.
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Razorsharp and some of the most decorative knives made in France.
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Oldenhof - Kookwinkel Oldenhof
Excellent cooking store in the heart of The Hague. They've got really everything you need in the kitchen.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #interior #kitchenware #Laguiole #knife #KookwinkelOldenhof #passage #shop #kitchenstore #Oldenhof in #TheHague #Netherlands
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Limestone cliffs along the Mediterranean sea.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #calanques #harbour #cliff - #boattrip #cruise #UNESCO / #MassifdesCalanques at #ParcnationaldesCalanques #Calanquesinletharbour in #Cassis, #BouchesduRhone - #France
The Massif des Calanques coastline is a very impressive area to visit. A calanque is a narrow, steep-walled inlet that is developed in limestone, dolomite, or other carbonate strata and found along the Mediterranean coast. At the end of the inlet it reveals small beaches or small harbours.
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Calanques inlet harbour - Calanques National Park (French: Parc national des Calanques, Est. 2012), located in Bouches-du-Rhône, Southern France. The Park, intended to protect and preserve a huge UNESCO coastline area coastline area along the Mediterranean Sea and extends over 520 km2 (201 sq mi), of which 85 km2 (33 sq mi) is land, while the remaining is marine area. It includes parts of the Massif des Calanques stretching between Marseille, Cassis and La Ciotat. Several of the park's best known features include the Calanque de Sormiou, Calanque de Morgiou, Calanque de Port-Miou, Calanque de Sugiton, as well as the Cosquer Cave.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calanques_National_Park.
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Goat cheese, using the milk produced by the many goats. You can buy the endproduct at the shop.
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Ouddorp - De Mèkkerstee
A care farm (founded in 2001) that provides with staff inclusion of disadvantaged people a business with mainly goats, a stable, simple cheese dairy, shop with many regional products and a pancake restaurant.
Info: www.demekkerstee.nl/nl/de-mekkerstee/.
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Richard Poppelaars
About Pixels Photography: #cheese #Mekkerstee #Ouddorp #NL
Eerst koffie met een Zeeuwse Bolus op Mosselschip BRU-40.
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Mosselgilde Wijnverkiezing 2018 - Wijnverkiezing Mosselseizoen 2018
Wijnverkiezing Mosselseizoen 2018 - een culinair evenement georganiseerd door het "Mosselgilde" waarbij diverse wijnkenners uit een selectie van wijnen de beste keus voor het Mosselseizoen 2018 mochten kiezen.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #Bruinisse #Netherlands / #MosselgildeWijnverkiezing2018 #Mosselgilde #krammer / #event #wineelection
A few examples to see in a Warhammer 40,000 shop. Mostly handpainted figures scenery objects including a creative designed terrain. It's always nice to catch some good close-up photos of this world. Many handpainted models are highly detailed.
Photo: Warhammer figures, weaponry and structures - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone X) / #tabletop #game - #Warhammer / #Shopping at #Shop #GamesWorkshop in #Aachen, #NorthRhineWestphalia - #Germany
May 2019, Warhammer Game (Est. 1983) after 36 years in history.
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Aachen: Games Workshop - Shopping
One of the most popular tabletop miniature wargames in the world. Set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is beset by hostile aliens and malevolent supernatural creatures constructed and painted by hand. The models in the game are a mixture of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and magical powers and includes objects and structures.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000.
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Mosselen - direct van de kweker. Uitermate vers, bijzonder goed van smaak en echt echte culinaire delicatesse.
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Mosselgilde Wijnverkiezing 2018 - Wijnverkiezing Mosselseizoen 2018
Wijnproeverij verkiezing Mosselseizoen 2018 - een culinair evenement georganiseerd door het Mosselgilde waarbij diverse wijnkenners uit een selectie van wijnen de beste keus voor het Mosselseizoen 2018 mochten kiezen.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #Bruinisse #Netherlands / #MosselgildeWijnverkiezing2018 #Mosselgilde / #event #wineelection
Signatures of a facade. Decorative architecture. Doors, wIndows, shutters, balconies, fences and other decorations. In some way they are individual identities of a building. What is is, but also for who, where or how the owners or inhabitants are.
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Limeuil - Architecture
The village of Limeuil, located at the confluence of the Dordogne and Vézère rivers historically both commercially and strategically on the highways of trade. This region was primarily a wine-producing area for subsequent delivery downstream to Bordeaux, on large, flat-bottomed "gabarres". Nowadays a very nice historical village and on the list of the "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France", the most beautiful villages of France.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limeuil.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #facade #Architecture #LPBVF in #Limeuil #France
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The Queen is a stunning beauty, all the kids were very impressed too. And me.....
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Walt Disney Studios Park
Disneyland Paris - an entertainment resort near Paris, France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #DisneylandParis #France / #WaltDisneyStudiosPark / #SleepingBeauty
Vintage SMEG water cookers.
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A water cooker like these is a very nice addition to your kitchen.
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Oldenhof - Kookwinkel Oldenhof
Excellent cooking store in the heart of The Hague. They've got really everything you need in the kitchen.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #interior #kitchenware #waterboiler #SMEG #KookwinkelOldenhof #passage #shop #kitchenstore #Oldenhof in #TheHague #Netherlands
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Carriages, harnesses, harnessed horses, coachmen, valets and passengers revive, the time of the visit, the art of master body builders. The cars of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries are presented in decorations on the themes of the city, the countryside and hunting.
The estate offers an exhibition of two trades: the saddler-saddler and the blacksmith. Finally, an exhibition of equipment for horses. Harnesses, bridles, bits and other maintenance equipment.
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Vaux-le-Vicomte (Est.1658) - a baroque French château on a 33 hectares (100 acres) estate with formal gardens along a three-kilometer axis. Built between 1658 to 1661 as a symbol of power and influence and intended to reflect the grandeur of Nicolas Fouquet, Marquis de Belle Île, Viscount of Melun and Vaux, the superintendent of finances of Louis XIV.
The château was an influential work of architecture in mid-17th-century Europe. The architect Louis Le Vau, the landscape architect André le Nôtre, and the painter-decorator Charles Le Brun worked together on this large-scale project. This marked the beginning of the "Louis XIV style" combining architecture, interior design and landscape design. Their next following project was to build Versailles.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaux-le-Vicomte
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About Pixels - #museum #design #stables #carriage - #VLV #Maincy #FR
Neoclassical architecture of Villa Volta.
The light-colored building with formal garden exudes a mysterious atmosphere, without being too emphatic. The architectural style pf Villa Volta (Est. 1996) is neoclassical, complete with Corinthian columns and many vases on all corners. There are plenty of goat head ornaments on the walls.
Photo November 2018, Efteling (May 31, 1952) after 66 years in time.
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Efteling - Villa Volta
Efteling (Est. 1952) - one of the oldest theme parks in the world. A very popular full-sized fantasy-themed amusement park with many attractions and a wide array of amusement rides that reflect elements from ancient myths and legends, fairy tales, fables, and folklore.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efteling.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #architecture #Neoclassic #VillaVolta #Marerijk #Efteling in #Kaatsheuvel #Netherlands
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Vintage and classic rides.
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American Cars and Classics - Classic Cars
This event is a gathering of a whole collection of various car brands, in models and years. From a time period of car design that is so easily recognizable, special use of materials and especially specific appearance that is so visibly linked to only that period.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #sports #classic #vintage #cars #ClassicCars #event #AmericanCarsandClassics in #Hellevoetsluis #Netherlands
Salamanders in nature. We don't see these protected animals that often, but if you know where they live and with a bit of luck you will find them. Together with the other animals and nature, they are part of our habitat, some are endangered species so let's take good care of the nature in our environment and we also take good care of ourselves.
Quote: Als we goed voor onze #natuur en #tuin zorgen, tref je opeens weer een Salamander en andere dieren aan.
Photo: A healthy environment brings Salamanders - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D7200) / #Salamander - #animal #amfibie / #Nature at #Fauna in #Hellevoetsluis #VoorneaanZee #VoornePutten, #SouthHolland - #Netherlands
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Hellevoetsluis Nature
Salamanders are vertebrates that belong to the amphibian class. There are five species of salamanders in the Netherlands and Belgium that belong to protected species, some of which are endangered species, which would be a shame for animals that have been known since the Jurassic period, about 187 to 144 million years ago.
Italian mini boxes.
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If ypu need that extra Italien touch this migh be a nice addition to your kitchen decoration.
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Oldenhof - Kookwinkel Oldenhof
Excellent cooking store in the heart of The Hague. They've got really everything you need in the kitchen.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #decoration #kitchenware #KookwinkelOldenhof #passage #shop #kitchenstore #Oldenhof in #TheHague #Netherlands
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Images of the past with some nice lantern and projector models. It's one of those nice objects to find at the Brocante Market with lots of other interesting things to find.
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Brocante Market - Brocante
Brocante market at Issegeac - it's a very popular brocante market during the summer season. Lots of nice vintage and antique objects to discover among lots of other goods. Just give it a try!
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Issigeac - a picturesque small village with many 13th to 15th century medieval timbered houses circling a church and a 17th century Bishop's Palace. The weekly market and brocante market is very popular with a nice variety of products and goods. Also, enjoy the local restaurants, it will sure make your visit complete. This village should be listed as one of the "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France" because it's exactly that type of a nice quaint French villages to visit.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels in #Issigeac #France / #BrocanteMarket / #camera #lantarn
A few examples to see in a Warhammer 40,000 shop. Mostly handpainted figures scenery objects including a creative designed terrain. It's always nice to catch some good close-up photos of this world. Many handpainted models are highly detailed.
Photo: Warhammer figures, weaponry and structures - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone X) / #tabletop #game - #Warhammer / #Shopping at #Shop #GamesWorkshop in #Aachen, #NorthRhineWestphalia - #Germany
May 2019, Warhammer Game (Est. 1983) after 36 years in history.
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Aachen: Games Workshop - Shopping
One of the most popular tabletop miniature wargames in the world. Set in the distant future, where a stagnant human civilization is beset by hostile aliens and malevolent supernatural creatures constructed and painted by hand. The models in the game are a mixture of humans, aliens, and supernatural monsters, wielding futuristic weaponry and magical powers and includes objects and structures.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warhammer_40,000.
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Aantrekkelijke menukaart.
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Er staat genoeg op het menu om in het restaurant te nuttigen. Wijntje erbij, geen prbleem! Dat hebben ze gelukkig ook.
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Schmidt Zeevis - Culinair
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
© About Pixels Photography: #AboutPixels / #menu #Culinair #restaurant #SchmidtZeevis in #Rotterdam #Netherlands
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It's very nice to visit the brocante market. Found a "Orient Express" bathroom tap, with chaud and froid. It's one of those nice objects to find at the Brocante Market with lots of other interesting things to find.
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Brocante Market - Brocante
Brocante market at Issegeac - it's a very popular brocante market during the summer season. Lots of nice vintage and antique objects to discover among lots of other goods. Just give it a try!
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Issigeac - a picturesque small village with many 13th to 15th century medieval timbered houses circling a church and a 17th century Bishop's Palace. The weekly market and brocante market is very popular with a nice variety of products and goods. Also, enjoy the local restaurants, it will sure make your visit complete. This village should be listed as one of the "Les Plus Beaux Villages de France" because it's exactly that type of a nice quaint French villages to visit.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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A group of five dolmens (D21, D22, D23, D24 and D25) located near the place Borger - Bronneger in the province of Drenthe. Dolmen D21 contained most of the archaeological finds dated to 3400 BC. It is also the most photogenic dolmen due to the huge beech tree. Also a short distance away are two burial mounds from the Bronze Age.
Photo: Almost 5500 years old Dolmens from the Neolithic era - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 8) / #Hunebed #Dolmen - #Hondsrug #Geopark #UNESCO / #UNESCOGeopark at #Bronneger #DeHondsrug in #Borger, #Drenthe - #Netherlands
September 2021, Bronneger Dolmens (Neolithic period - 4000-3000 BC) after +/-5421 years in time.
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De Hondsrug ïn Borger - Hunebed (Dolmen) - a megalithic burial chamber from the Neolithic (4000-3000 BC) of the Trechterbeker (Funnelbeaker) culture. As a portal grave built from huge stones that were dragged along by the ice from southern Sweden and Finland during the Ice Age for about 150,000 years. There are 52 dolmens in Drenthe and two in Groningen and traces of dolmens have been found in at least thirty other places, but without the large stones. Originally there would have been at least 88 dolmens in the Netherlands.
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UNESCO Geopark de Hondsrug - the only European Geopark in the Netherlands, a landscape with ridges and valleys that originated in the Ice Age about 150,000 years ago. Known for the various Dolmens from the Neolithic and burial mounds dating from the Bronze Age. In 2016, the Hondsrug was added to Unesco Geopark areas.
Visit to the Vineyard.
Photo: Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Apple iPhone 4S) / #winery - #ClosDYvigne #Saussignac #PatriciaAtkinson #vigneron #writer at #Saussignac #LeClosDYvigne in #GageacetRouillac, #Dordogne - #France
An attractive farm like house in a silent small village. In fact it's a winery with award winning wines and with a really nice story attached to it. Read the best-seller book "The Ripening Sun" by the self made vigneron Patricia Atkinson and read all about her life here in the Bergerac region, the village and all about producing wine. The full "terroir" of wine will come to life.
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Le Clos D'Yvigne - Brought to a thriving succes by Patricia Atkinson, a self made vigneron in the small village of Saussignac who restored this vineyard with award winning wines and to become a best-selling writer with her book "The Ripening Sun" about her remarkable story doing so.
Rain, the terraces are empty, the walking people rush inside. The always many cyclists pass quickly. Dutch unsteady weather, people get used to it, also because it's almost like yesterday.
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Gouda
Bookstore Smit, one of the many small shops in the center of Gouda. Often old buildings that stand side by side in many forms of architecture. That is exactly what makes the old city center so attractive, an area where modern, sleek architecture has not yet struck and the city still retains its history. Unfortunately, we don't read books that often anymore..
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Visit and tour.
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Easy to find your way to visit the Catacombes de Paris.
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Catacombes de Paris - History
The Catacombs of Paris is the largest collection of underground cemeteries in the world, containing the bones of approximately six million Parisians in underground burial chambers and galleries.
Underground in Paris is a nearly 300 km long network of quarry tunnels used for the building blocks of many Parisian buildings and monuments such as Notre Dame. Because the Parisian cemeteries were overcrowded and very unclean, it was decided to close the cemeteries and move the bones to the underground passages.
It would take two years to empty the majority of Paris's cemeteries. Beginning from an opening ceremony on 7 April 1785 with nightly processions of black cloth-covered wagons carrying the millions of Parisian dead. The property itself was transformed into a sort of museum for all the headstones, sculptures and other artifacts recuperated from the former cemetery. The human remains were dumped into empty chambers and covered with a neatly stacked wall of skulls and bones. Plaques indicate which cemetery the bones come from. Until well into the 19th century, the Catacombs of Paris remained in use for the storage of bones.
Today, about half a million visit a 1.7 km section of the tunnels. It is a former quarry from the 15th century containing the graves of up to the 18th century. After a descent of 25 meters of stairs, a walk takes the visitor past one of the catacombs where the stacked bones and skulls lie, arranged by cemetery where the bones come from and the year they were deposited in the catacombs or by events in the Parisian history.
Info: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catacombs_of_Paris.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Mammoet.
Photo: Winners of the Lampoin Parade - by Richard Poppelaars © #AboutPixels #Photography (Nikon D90) / #lampions #attendees #awardceremony - #evenement / #LampoinParade at #Lampionoptocht in #Hellevoetsluis, #SouthHolland - #Netherlands
September 2015, Lampionoptocht (1st anual edition 1948) after 67 years in time. In the year 2023 it's 75 years since.
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Hellevoetsluis - Tht anual Lampoin Parade in Hellevoetsluis (since 1948). A festivity with lots of home made lampion decorations with a nice parade in the first darkness of the september evening. Still early enough for the many children who really enjoy this event.
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Lekker smullen voor de kinderen, al is het maar een aardappel.
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Fokveedag Hellevoetsluis - een traditioneel agrarisch evenement sinds 1957. Voornamelijk een verkiezing van de mooiste koe met verder talrijke andere activiteiten en veel te zien met als basis het boeren bedrijf
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Inviting outside terrace.
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It's a bit like a perrace in Paris, also a very nice vintage type of architecture adds to the atmosphere.
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Dudok - Brasserie Dudok
A typical grand café as you also see in Paris. Open since 1991 and since then Restaurant Brasserie Café Dudok has been a very popular catering location. They are named after the architect of the same name, Willem Marinus Dudok.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Foggy morning at the historic fortifications, The fog and silence changes the atmosphere, it conceals what is otherwise visible and gives color to the image which is actually shaded in gray.
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Fortifications - during the time of the United Provinces Hellevoetsluis was the naval port of the Admiralty of de Maze (Rotterdam) and could accommodate an entire fleet within a special land-enclosed fortress with harbour and dockyard facilities, accessible through a canal. Thanks to its strategic situation the town grew from the beginning of the 17th century to be the homeport for the Dutch war fleet. In later years the port was fortified more and more and Hellevoetsluis therefore became a unique combination of fortified town and naval port.
The Admirals Maarten Tromp, Michiel de Ruyter and Piet Heyn had their home base here and in 1688 during the Glorious Revolution William III of Orange's invasion fleet departed from the port.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hellevoetsluis
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Weather - "Fog" (Hellevoetsluis/NL)
Buzz Lightyear attraction scenes - the backstory of the ride revolves around the attempts of Evil Emperor Zurg to steal the batteries (known as "crystallic fusion cells") used to power the space vehicles of the "Little Green Men". Participants are "Star Command" raw recruits sent to defeat Zurg.
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Disneyland Paris - formerly Euro Disney Resort, is an entertainment resort near Paris , France. It is the most visited theme park in Europe.
It encompasses the theme parks:
Disneyland Park (Est.1992) - based on Disneyland and the Magic Kingdom in Florida.
Walt Disney Studios Park (Est. 2002) - celebrating show business, films, and behind-the-scenes.
Disney Village - an entertainment district containing a variety of restaurants, entertainment venues and shops.
See: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disneyland_Paris
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Dark furniture with strong lights.
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It looks nice and spacious but the floor reflects sound. Strong light compensate the dark tones but it doesn't seem to be in perfect balance.
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Tomiko - Restaurant Tomiko
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Shopping at Givenchy.
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Just near Paris Charles de Gaulle (CDG) Airport, you'll find a Champs-Élysées like Outlet Shopping Center. It includes 110 exclusive top fashion and homeware boutiques.
Even the village like architecture, including the small bistro's, is exquisite and colorful indeed. The (price)tag #lavalleevillage could be the new trend for some time to come.
Photo April 2023, La Vallée Village (2000) after 23 years in time.
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La Vallee Village - Givenchy
Val d'Europe "La Vallée Village" (Est. 2000) - in an idealized "briarde" architecture, more than 120 clothing and other luxery brands, including 15 of major brands, with lots of goods for sale at discount prices. Also a few known fast food and some famous delicacy places to actually taste some nice European types of cuisine.
Info: fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_commercial_Val_d'Europe#La_V....
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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Dolende Nymphen in de binnenstad. Met een indrukwekkend dansje en grote groep echt een gave deelname van deze dolende nimphen in bruidsjurk.
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Halloween Spooktocht - Halloween
Halloween Spooktocht Brielle - een jaarlijks Halloween evenement waarbij in een optocht door de historische binnenstad publiek en deelnemers in een wisselend thema maar altijd op een leuke wijze Halloween beleven.
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Photo - Richard Poppelaars.
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