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Cow barn near Khabarovsk. Outside -25 degrees Celcius. Inside -5 degrees? I didn’t measure, but it felt very warm.

His street is the race course today. Waiting for the caravane...

Kermis in Utrecht. These used to be very busy, but nowadays it is silent. Finished business.

Skiing in Joue du Loup / Superdevoluy. Tried to keep up with my kids on their snowboards. Result: nope, impossible to beat them downhill. All I got was a nice injury, have to see a surgeon now…

Today it is a hotel, but previously it was the Abbaye des Prémontrés in Pont-à-Mousson near Metz.

Like the interior of a space ship.

January 2013, I am driving back from a meeting in Paris. I am not in a hurry, so I leave the péage and take the smaller roads. RN17, small village after small village, and then all of a sudden a war cemetary with a Dutch flag near Orry-la-Ville. Just over one hundred graves. Most of these boys died in Dunkirk in 1940. I walk around for a few minutes, take some pictures.

This is the former NSA listening post on top of the Teufelsberg in West-Berlin. The Teufelsberg is not a natural hill, it is man-made, from the rubble of Berlin after the second world war. The hill made a good place to build a listening post for monitoring communications in East-Germany. After the Berlin Wall fell the listening post was decommissioned, but the buildings remain. The exterior of the building is just canvas clothing.

Queens Day 2010, Amsterdam near hotel Americain.

This is on the Oostvaardersplassen in The Netherlands, 4th January 2009. We had had some good ice that winter, and although the thaw had started on Thursday we still tried to skate a little more on Sunday. But skating on ice with just one millimeter water is nerve wrecking, and cold. You never know if there is a hole ahead. OK, you know there is no hole, at least yesterday there was no hole, so.