Category Archives: Discoveries

I’d like a ticket to…

Posted on March 22, 2009 | Leave a comment

Report of Impakt De Zondagsschool #7: Travel held at March 15, 2009 in Utrecht.

The seventh edition of De Zondagsschool (Sunday School), hosted by Impakt, focused on contemporary travel experiences. Travel is about discovery, about experiencing something new, and you don’t always have to pack your suitcases to do this. Merriam-Webster defines travel as ‘to go on or as if on a trip or tour’. And thus, you can travel at your own leisure, from the comforts of your own lazy chair. If you would actually like to go somewhere though, you can nowadays travel further than you’d ever imagined, far over the horizon.
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Holden Caulfield would have liked them. Angus and Julia Stone at Rotown.

Posted on May 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

May 17th, in the middle of the night, I suddenly found myself wondering: why can’t alternative music sound like other alternative music? I’d been to a concert, one I’m about to review, and my friend told me: “If you are going to write a review, you have to listen to Martha ‘Stewart’ Wainwright and Joanna Newsom first”. So, after figuring out she meant Martha Wainwright and not Martha Stewart, I realised I know her songs, and I googled Joanna Newsom, and yes, my friend was right. The music of Angus and Julia Stone sounds similar to that, I however fail to see the problem. And really, they are quite different. While Julia Stone has a trumpet, Joanna Newsom has a harp, and Martha Wainwright has … Rufus Wainwright.
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I don’t need a garden, I share a park – Loesje

Posted on May 12, 2008 | 1 Comment
Because this is a blog of reports and reviews, I thought it would be nice to share with you my new backyard. Just a few minutes away from my modest rooms in a shared house, lies the Vroesenpark, next to Blijdorp Zoo.

I live in the middle of the city, and what is a city without a park? So I searched on Google Maps, and there it was, all shiny and green. I grabbed my bicycle, my camera and a book, and ventured out into the undiscovered.
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