to reflect

For many years we listen to all kinds of performances of the music composed by Simeon ten Holt. Many of these have been created by two piano fanatics. In May 2010, we met Jeroen van Veen and his wife Sandra Mol for the first time in person. We visited a very special concert...

http://www.platomania.eu/

Even though John doesn't play an instrument, he very much appreciates music. For years, he visited concerts on a weekly (or at least monthly) basis, generally classical...

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The 'Cruquiusgemaal' (the pumping-station at Cruquius) is one of the three pumping-stations that were originally used to reclaim the Haarlemmermeer, between Amsterdam, Haarlem...

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http://www.dk-spb.ru - in Russian

In July 2009, we went to St. Petersburg (Russia) for the first time, to attend a conference. Whenever we had free time – which wasn't very often – we wandered through the city looking...

http://galignani.com/index.php

In November 2008, we visited Paris for the first time together: we had been invited to the Salon des vins. During our wanderings, we found… a bookshop of course. And it was a very special...

This contemporary composer creates incredibly beautiful music, mainly for piano. As far as we’re concerned his best piano composition is Canto Ostinato. We have heard it in many different...

http://www.dereyghere.be/

During our first visit to Bruges, we discovered this great bookshop on the Markt in the centre of Bruges. De Reyghere is the oldest Flemish bookshop; it exists over 120 years! What makes...

http://www.selexyz.nl/winkels/4/amsterdam/koningsplein-20/

When in the early '80s he started working as a database designer in mainstream IT, John needed access to professional literature. Most of it was published in the UK or the US and...