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Rozengracht 28/12/2020 11h49
I don't really remember ever taking a tram photo here at this tram stop. On the occasion of the disappearance of this tram series and because there is no sunlight anyway, this may be a good reason.
The 12G 824 on tram stop Marnixstraat before turning right into the Marnixstraat,
This photo is taken and uploaded during the last week this type of tram is dominating on tramlines 19 and 24. The 12G series (817 - 841) built by BN in Belgium in the early 1990's will be put aside first. Later the 11G bidirectional 11G trams (901 - 920) will follow when enough new CAF Urbos 100 GVB 15G trams are available for service on line 5.
This 824 has been delivered to the GVB on 13/03/1991 and was first in service on 25/03/1991 (line 24).
More information about line 19:
Opened: 22/07/2018
Route: Diemen - Middenweg - Sarphatistraat - Weteringschans - Leidseplein - de Clercqstraat - Admiraal de Ruijterweg - Sloterdijk
Length: 12.8 km
Depot: Remise Havenstraat
Equipment: Standard BN 12G trams (817 - 841)
[ 12/2020 ]
BYE BYE 12G TRAMS (all photos taken after the news this tram series will be phased out)
Dam 16/12/2019 16h51
A merry Christmas from Amsterdam.
Dam
Dam (somtimes referred as 'Dam Square' by tourists) is a town square in Amsterdam, the capital of the Netherlands. Its notable buildings and frequent events make it one of the most well-known and important locations in the city and the country.
Dam Square lies in the historical center of Amsterdam, approximately 750 meters south of the main transportation hub, Centraal Station, at the original location of the dam in the river Amstel. It is roughly rectangular in shape, stretching about 200 meters from west to east and about 100 meters from north to south. It links the streets Damrak and Rokin, which run along the original course of the Amstel River from Centraal Station to Muntplein (Mint Square) and the Munttoren (Mint Tower). The Dam also marks the endpoint of the other well-traveled streets Nieuwendijk, Kalverstraat and Damstraat. A short distance beyond the northeast corner lies the main red-light district: de Wallen.
On the west end of the square is the neoclassical Royal Palace, which served as the city hall from 1655 until its conversion to a royal residence in 1808. Beside it are the 15th-century Gothic Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) and the Madame Tussaud's Wax Museum. The National Monument, a white stone pillar designed by J.J.P. Oud and erected in 1956 to memorialize the victims of World War II, dominates the opposite side of the square. Also overlooking the plaza are the NH Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky and the upscale department store De Bijenkorf. These various attractions have turned the Dam into a tourist zone.
The Dam derives its name from its original function: a dam on the Amstel River, hence also the name of the city. Built in approximately 1270, the dam formed the first connection between the settlements on the sides of the river.
As the dam was gradually built up to it became wide enough for a town square, which remained the core of the town developing around it. Dam Square as it exists today grew out of what was originally two squares: the actual dam, called Middeldam; and Plaetse, an adjacent plaza to the west. A large fish market arose where ships moored at the dam to load and unload goods. The area became a centre not only of commercial activity but also of the government, as the site of Amsterdam's town hall.
[ Source: Wikipedia ]
Hartveldseweg 22/03/2020 16h22
Major reconstruction works on the Hartveldseweg in Diemen. Tram line 19 has been shortened to Voorlandpad in Watergraafsmeer from 25/02/2020 till 31/03/2020. This is all part of the Oost-West As (East-West axe) in Diemen.
At this time about 300 meters of rails has been renewed including the subsurface. The main workshop (HWT in Diemen) has been inaccessible by rail for about a week.
More information about line 19:
Opened: 22/07/2018
Route: Diemen - Middenweg - Sarphatistraat - Weteringschans - Leidseplein - de Clercqstraat - Admiraal de Ruijterweg - Sloterdijk
Length: 15.4 km
Depot: Remise Havenstraat
Equipment: Standard BN 12G trams (817 - 841)
[ 03 / 2020 ]
Amstel | Magere Brug 08/04/2020 15h48
Crossing the brigde of bridges...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Country: The NETHERLANDS & WEST GERMANY (loco)
Operator: NS & DB
Item: STEAM
Class or Maker: DB/64
Wheel Arrangement or Type: 2-6-2T
Number: 64.475
Place details: ZWOLLE Exhibition or 'Stichting Zwolle 750'
Additional notes: Gauge std
LCGB Steam in Holland Tour
S.S.N. (Stoom Stichting Nederland)
Original source material: Kodak 35mm colour slide
Photographer: Robert W. Bridger
Copyright: Photographer
Library locator reference: RWBR_0507
30937 Transport Photograph Database
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Avalon 25/02/2020 11h03
The Sword in the Stone with Andy on a view point of the area Avalon.
Avalon
Avalon is located in the north of the park around a former fishing pond. The theme area is themed medieval and mythical and opened July 7, 2018. Avalon has two attractions and a restaurant. The first restaurant in the park where service is available. The main attraction is of course Fēnix (a steel wing coaster of Bolliger & Mabillard )and also Merlin's Quest (boat tour and dark ride).
Fēnix is a steel Wing coaster opened on 7 July 2018. Fēnix opened as part of Avalon, a new area with a theme based on Celtic legends. It was also the first Wing Coaster in the Netherlands.
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Spookslot 08/03/2022 12h33
Everybody who has stood in line for the main show at Spookslot might recognise this sign on the entrance doors of the main show.
After the 2022 Summer period, the attraction from 1978 will be permanently closed and demolished. The Efteling will announce this on January 24. According to general manager Fons Jurgens, the haunted castle is due for replacement after 44 years.
"The Spookslot was, if we are very honest, perhaps ten years ago no longer of this time," he says in conversation with the Brabants Dagblad. That is why a new attraction will take its place, which will cost 25 million euros.
Efteling does not want to say anything about the attraction type yet, except that it will be a covered addition with a theoretical capacity of 1250 people per hour.
The Spookslot was the first major Efteling attraction designed by the late creative director Ton van de Ven. Later he was also at the helm of, for example, Fata Morgana (1986), het Volk van Laaf (1990), Droomvlucht (1993), Villa Volta (1996) and Vogel Rok (1998).
Spookslot
The Haunted Castle (Dutch: Spookslot) is a haunted attraction in the Efteling in the Netherlands. It was designed by Ton van de Ven and was the first attraction built outside the Fairy Tale Forest.
On July 24, 1976 the announcement on the making of the world's biggest haunted castle appeared in Brabant's daily newspaper, Het Brabants Dagblad. The article mentions that the castle would be built between the Fairy Tale Forest and the rowing and canoeing pond. This was a strategic choice, because the location of the attraction would attract visitors to the normally ‘forgotten’ southern part of the park.
The main reason for this mega-attraction was declining numbers of visitors at Efteling. Aiming for a more general public, with an attraction that didn’t depend on the weather conditions, Efteling authorized their young designer Van de Ven to start designing the ride.
Van de Ven designed the castle as a walk-through attraction and, in the style of Anton Pieck, the castle was designed to look old and decayed. It is meant to look as though it was once beautiful and majestic, but is now hahttps://www.flickr.com/photos/meteorry/unted and in ruins and somewhat romantic.
The construction took about 18 months and the castle was officially opened May 10, 1978.
On May 12 a television special was broadcast with Kate Bush singing in and around the castle. She had a big hit around the globe with "Wuthering Heights" at the time.
The waiting hall is a dimly-lit area, with several spooky items, of which an oriental ghost with a crystal looking glass is the most notable. The glass uses the pepper's ghost technique to show a beautiful woman turning into a skull. In the tower area a hairy arm stretches from the roof, holding a big chandelier. Once in a while one might have a glimpse of three horrible batlike creatures, leering down at the visitors.
Upon entering the main attraction hall, a number of scary statues and scenes prepare the audience for the main course: a look into the inner court, graveyard, and the ruins of a monastery at night. When the clock strikes twelve, a violin (also a pepper's ghost effect) starts playing the Danse Macabre of Saint-Saëns and the graveyard comes to life and a number of skeletons and ghosts are visible. One tombstone is labeled in Latin "Puella Innocenta" (innocent girl). The years on her stone (in Roman numbering) reveal that she has been living backwards in time, however it is possible that it is merely a mistake of the artist who made the stone. There is also a tombstone inside the mansion with the name "Den Hegarty", an Irish rock singer who happened to be on the radio when the stone was made. Also, it is said that the main show's appearance was influenced by the 1971 horror film "Tombs of the Blind Dead".
The maintheme of the show is a shortened version of the Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saëns. The movements of the animatronics are synchronized with the music; the violin that opens and closes the main part of the show demonstrates this. The show itself has been adapted four times. During the opening season in 1978 the show lasted about 12 minutes. Three months later it was cut back to 8 minutes. In 1987 the show was renewed and in 1989 the final version was completed.
FACTS & FIGURES:
Opening: 10/05/1978
Design: Ton van de Ven
Costs: 3.5 milion Dutch guilders (€1,588,823)
Capacity: 800 - 1000 per hour
Show time: 6.27 minutes
Source and more information:
Waterlooplein 23/12/2024 18h02
The only installation of the Amsterdam Light Festival which is not visible from the water. In front of the Stopera together with the information center of the 13th edition of the festival.
Literally..."Lost in Light"...
LOST IN LIGHT
Artist: Abdo El Moudawar (LB)
Amsterdam Light Festival
Amsterdam Light Festival is an annual light art festival in Amsterdam. Artists, architects and (light) designers from all over the world bring their light artworks and installations alive during the festival every winter.
Edition #13 is from 28 November 2024 until 19 January 2025. In total 27 light artworks will illuminate the iconic canals of Amsterdam. For Amsterdam Light Festival 2024-2024 the theme is Rutuals. Rituals have traditionally helped us through all kinds of transformations; from past to future, from winter to summer, from youth to adulthood. Light plays a vital role in many rituals, as a vibrant symbol of joy, energy and life. We use fireworks to usher in the new year, candles to commemorate, and midsummer fires to welcome the solstice. Light adds something mystical and sacred to a ritual like no other element can. And rituals unify. Rituals bring people together.
That’s why we celebrate Amsterdam750 with light. With art. With each other. With Edition 13: Rituals.
Museumplein 16/03/2017 16h57
Rushing home...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Stationary and logo designed by André Cremer, UNA (Amsterdam) designers 2001.
From Graphic Design for the 21st Century by Charlotte and Peter Fiell.
Museumstraat 11/02/2021 13h52
Urban proof basket, urban proof bike and urban proof man...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
Muntplein 18/07/2024 18h35
Fatbike'n the city...
More AmsterdamPeople (album with candid and non-candid shot of people in Amsterdam)
PLEASE, NO invitations or self promotions, THEY WILL BE DELETED. My photos are FREE to use, just give me credit and it would be nice if you let me know, thanks.
"NO PICTURES" are allowed, this is taken seriously and your camera could be thrown in the canal if you try. These were taken from a distance and across the canal.
The women are all in bikinis and under black lights, did not see more skin than this.
VARPALOTA TRAINING AREA, Hungary - A Soldier from the 11th Royal Netherlands Army Maneuver Brigade conducting a dismounted patrol calls out orders during Exercise Saker Falcon 2014 here, April 2. Saker Falcon is a multinational training exercise involving roughly 200 Soldiers from U.S. Army Europe's 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, two Dutch Air Assault battalions, and Hungarian military forces. The objectives of the training include enhancing joint combined interoperability with allied and partner nations and preparing participants to operate in a joint, multinational, integrated environment with support from Hungarian governmental agencies. Saker Falcon, underway from April 3 through April 17, reinforces U.S. Army Europe's strategic objectives to increase regional flexibility, preserve and enhance NATO interoperability, and facilitate multinational training. (U.S. Army Europe photo by Spc. Joshua Leonard)
President Barack Obama makes a statement to the press during a meeting with President Park Geun-hye of the Republic of Korea, left, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan at the U.S. Ambassador's residence in The Hague, the Netherlands, March 25, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)
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Location: Berlin - 575km from home.
I was quite surprised to find an i8 from the Netherlands in Berlin. They're incredibly common to see here and certainly did lose their "coolness", but spotting a foreign one is quite a rarity, although I managed to see a few.
Amsterdam is the capital and most populous city of the Netherlands with a population of 872,680[12] within the city proper, 1,380,872 in the urban area and 2,410,960 in the metropolitan area. Found within the province of North Holland, Amsterdam is colloquially referred to as the "Venice of the North", attributed by the large number of canals which form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Amsterdam's name derives from Amstelredamme, indicative of the city's origin around a dam in the river Amstel. Originating as a small fishing village in the late 12th century, Amsterdam became one of the most important ports in the world in the Dutch Golden Age of the 17th century and became the leading centre for finance and trade. In the 19th and 20th centuries, the city expanded, and many new neighbourhoods and suburbs were planned and built. The 17th-century canals of Amsterdam and the 19–20th century Defence Line of Amsterdam are on the UNESCO World Heritage List. Sloten, annexed in 1921 by the municipality of Amsterdam, is the oldest part of the city, dating to the 9th century.
As the commercial capital of the Netherlands and one of the top financial centres in Europe, Amsterdam is considered an alpha-world city by the Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) study group. The city is also the cultural capital of the Netherlands. Many large Dutch institutions have their headquarters there, including Philips, AkzoNobel, TomTom and ING. Also, many of the world's largest companies are based in Amsterdam or have established their European headquarters in the city, such as leading technology companies Uber, Netflix and Tesla. In 2012, Amsterdam was ranked the second best city to live in by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) and 12th globally on quality of living for environment and infrastructure by Mercer. The city was ranked 4th place globally as top tech hub in the Savills Tech Cities 2019 report (2nd in Europe), and 3rd in innovation by Australian innovation agency 2thinknow in their Innovation Cities Index 2009. The Port of Amsterdam is the fifth largest in Europe. Amsterdam Airport Schiphol is the busiest airport in the Netherlands, and the third busiest in Europe. Famous Amsterdam residents include the diarist Anne Frank, artists Rembrandt and Van Gogh, and philosopher Baruch Spinoza.
The Amsterdam Stock Exchange is the oldest stock exchange in the world. Amsterdam's main attractions include its historic canals, the Rijksmuseum, the Van Gogh Museum, the Stedelijk Museum, Hermitage Amsterdam, the Concertgebouw, the Anne Frank House, the Scheepvaartmuseum, the Amsterdam Museum, the Heineken Experience, the Royal Palace of Amsterdam, Natura Artis Magistra and Hortus Botanicus Amsterdam. They draw more than 5 million international visitors annually. The city is also well known for its nightlife and festival activity; several of its nightclubs (Melkweg, Paradiso) are among the world's most famous. It is also one of the world's most multicultural cities, with at least 177 nationalities represented
-Wikipedia
Veerseweg 06/03/2021 17h05
If houses could talk and make faces ...
Middelburg
Middelburg is a city and municipality in the south-western Netherlands serving as the capital of the province of Zeeland. Situated on the central peninsula of the Zeeland province, Midden-Zeeland (consisting of former islands Walcheren, Noord-Beveland and Zuid-Beveland). Middelburg is the starting point of the N57 and is located on the A58 and the Roosendaal - Vlissingen railway line. The city is bisected by the Canal through Walcheren.
In terms of technology, Middelburg played a role in the Scientific Revolution at the early modern period. The town was historically a center of lens crafting in the Golden Age of Dutch science and technology. The invention of the microscope and telescope is often credited to Middelburg spectacle-makers (including Zacharias Janssen and Hans Lippershey) in the late 16th century and early 17th century.
The city of Middelburg dates back possibly to the late 8th century or early 9th century. The first mention of Middelburg was as one of three fortified towns (borgs) erected on Walcheren (then an island) to guard against Viking raids. In 844 a monastery was built on the site, which remained an active Catholic foundation until the Reformation. Foundations for Middelburg's "stately and picturesque" main church were first laid in the 10th century; additional construction continued through the Middle Ages.
Aside from the town of Middelburg, the municipality also includes several population centres, including: Arnemuiden, Kleverskerke, Nieuw- en Sint Joosland and Sint Laurens. The town is close to the coast but the distance of 10-15 km means the winters are somewhat colder with especially lower winter minima and higher summer maxima.
Middelburg has a railway station with intercity train connections to Vlissingen, Goes, Roosendaal, Rotterdam, The Hague, Leiden, Haarlem, and Amsterdam. Two trains leave every hour in both directions.
Population: 42,055 (2021)
Area: 53,05 km²
Density: 1,003/km2
Harkstraat | Schoffelstraat 14/06/2021 08h53
After the reconstruction of this street (somehwere between 2016 and 2018), a wadi (kind of small valley) has been created in the middle where the excess rainwater can enter the ground in a natural way. The Watergraafsmeer was once a lake and is still a pit.
Betondorp
Betondorp (popular abbreviated to BeDo) is a neighborhood of Amsterdam, Netherlands. It was built in the 1920s as an experiment in building affordable housing with new, cheap building materials, chiefly concrete. The name translates as 'Concrete Village'. The houses are built in a sober, minimalist form of Art Deco.
Betondorp is located in the Watergraafsmeer neighbourhood. Famous Dutch footballer Johan Cruijff was born and raised in Betondorp. In his teens hning ground right across from where he grew up. Another famous Betondorp native is Dutch writer Gerard Reve who based the see joined Ajax, his hometown club that had their stadium and traitting of his most famous novel, De Avonden, on Betondorp.
[ Source & more Info: wikipedia - Betondorp ]