The Van
Category: Travel
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Photographs, Video and Stuff
The Train
Join me on a transatlantic KLM flight heading towards Europe. Listen to what the pilot has to say.
Please join me at the vibrant Amsterdam Central Station. Listen to the announcements and people and trains coming and going.
Until Dr Beeching came along, Banff was connected to the rest of the United Kingdom by a railway line. The railway line to Banff finally closed in 1968. A pity. Given the general state of the roads in the UK (overcrowded and often in disrepair) and the need for us to reach climate targets, perhaps greater use of modern railway trains might have helped us in the longer term. But then, UK governments (especially the so-called Government we have in place now), can’t seem to plan beyond the end of the next week, let alone a year or more’s time. Long term planning? Forget it!!!
Where there were once railway tracks, there are now walking/jogging paths. Every cloud has a silver lining…
We’ve now left Holland and we’re on the move…….but where to? A new house waits for us somewhere. All will be revealed…
A bit of fish-eye!
I remember a time when only the very wealthy flew around the world…
It shouldn’t be this way.
“Where there is a lack of sanitation, human waste often returns to the environment untreated, affecting human health and degrading ecosystems.”
We should all be helping here.
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Please click on the Soundcloud link below, close your eyes and join me on the streets of Amsterdam for the King’s Day (27 April) celbrations. Amsterdam turns into one big street party on King’s Day and boats with very loud sound systems and celebrating crew members tour the city’s canals having what can only be described as a very good time!
See all other soundscapes here.
See my King’s Day video here.
See my King’s Day Spark here.
Please click on the link below, close your eyes and join me in the main lobby in Central Station Amsterdam (a natural echo chamber). Towards the end you’ll here a station announcement but the natural echo in the main lobby makes it hard to hear what is being announced.
See all other soundscapes here.
You can’t beat a five minute sit-down…
The Sitting
From one aircraft to another at Schipol Airport
The Wave From the Pilot
For millions of people in London, this is the daily slog. Never a pleasant journey.
What better way to spend a lazy afternoon in Amsterdam…
Eagle-eyed readers will spot something strange here…
There’s something appealing about graceful curves…
The bus service in the Netherlands must be the most clean and efficient service anywhere.
Here’s a flashback to 2015 – Amsterdam Sail. The next Amsterdam Sail will be in 2020.
WARNING. Some brief (very brief) nudity!
Sail Amsterdam 2015 – by Richard Broom from Richard Broom on Vimeo.
People seem to have lost their way today. This will get you home. Steady as she goes!
The interestingly named Burger restaurant in Amsterdam…
Find the Burger Bitch here.
