It’s me!

Yes, I can smile! Here is the proof

Thinking was something I did at an early age…

Photo’s from the past

These photo’s are a selection made with my first digital camera, Kyocera finecam L4v; boughtback in 2005.

My house. On my way to home, I made the first photo’s with my camera to test it. Nowadays there is no gass station anymore in front of my apartement. Which made my place more worth, and that’s good in times when prices of houses are getting less. My apartement is on the topfloor, in the middle

This photo is taken during the European School 2 in Rotterdam. An European School is a training event of AEGEE, to prepare 25 youngsters to get active on the European level with more skills. On the photo is Jaap, he’s a long time member of AEGEE-Rotterdam. If you want to have a party with great cocktails, invite him, he can make them all very well.

This statue of Willem IV is in front of the history museum of Rotterdam. He gave city rights to Rotterdam in 1340.

This statue is cool, and also functional, you can sit on it. With certain art pieces in Rotterdam you can have a big Questionmark… wht? It’s representing characters of the comic Olivier B. Bommel, written and drawn by Maarten Toonder, whom was born in Rotterdam in 1912.

The famous Cubic houses, all together called “Blaakse Bos” since the Dutch architect Blom saw it as a forrest (=bos, it’s called Blaakse, since it’s above the street Blaak), the 38 Cubus houses are build between 1982 and 1984.

Agora Torino, the typical sleeping place for the general members meeting of AEGEE. I like this kind of way much more then hotel Agora’s, since here you have a real group spirit, and you can find different group of nationalities whom are singing from time to time.

The best Polish wodka! Finally at the Agora in Torino, I learned about the secret of Poland… the Polish people always take one special wodka with them, which I really don’t like, but at the agora in Torino finally a Polish friend brought with him this herbal wodka which is now my favorite.

I found this in a church in Torino… advanced religion. I really don’t like this, you pay for litting one of the “candles”… This is not how it’s meant to be. That the religious people accept this, I can’t understand.

This is one of the pieces of the biggest Egyptian museum outside Egypt in Torino. I stayed one more day after the Agora, specially to visit this museum, and it was worth it!

I don’t know what it means, but I liked it a lot.  Another piece of the Egyptian museum in Torino.

The Romanian Embassy in the Hague. I never saw such a long line in front of polling on an election day in Holland. Also, they had over 60 parties to choose from, each different nationality have his own party, amazing.

Yeap, that’s finally me. The only way to get me normally on photo, is with at least one lady, and here I have two Spanish ladies One of them is the sister of the flatmate with whom I’ve lived for 3,5 years together under one roof, the other lady is the friend of the sister. We had a lot of fun while shooting this photo at the lake near my house.

A concert with my Spanish flatemate Juanma, in those times I went quit often to a Classical concert…

Nice roses on the flower market in Amsterdam.

The best party I’ve had in the CD house, the birthday party of Alexey Korostelev, as you can see a lot of delicious Russian food; and the party after the dinner was wonderfull. I pledged to never show the photo’s )

Heidelberg, one of my favorite places in Germany. Each city with a river like Rotterdam, feels almost like home, I’ve noticed that during my travels. On the mountain you see in the back is the castle of Heidelberg. Normally there is each year the Ball of AEGEE-Heidelberg, 300 germans and 50 foreigners An event you must have done!

The four ladies At the European Board Meeting of Valetta, I had a nice mixed room. When I arrived in Valetta, the organiser thought I was a girl, since I asked to stay in one room with Benedetta, our Turkish friends had the same, so instead of four girls as expected by the organisers we had a nice mixed room. I asked to stay in one room with Bene, because we came to Valetta to give a workshop about our project. We prepared the workshop on the rocky beach of Valetta; while the natives were having it cold, we saw some Dutchies going for a dive in the sea.

The coolest text I’ve ever seen in a public transport bus in Valetta: “Don’t panic, no comment, Sit down & relax” ) And it was a nice ride

This is a photo of the start of the Hungarian version of Idols. This day I will never forget since it was the day the Polish pope died… they didn’t know what to do, when the news reached the organisers, and they stopped the program and showed the breaking news which was on the national television… after a while they went on with the show.

These are real turtles, and this is in a restaurant in Budapest. You’re sitting above water, where they are living. It’s an interesting experience.

So.. Go home and make love! Now! I loved this sign in Vienna

Another sign I like, aren’t we allowed to walk hand in hand in Vienna??? ) I made these photo’s on my one day visit, while I was on vacation in Budapest… on our way my friend Mariann said, why are they driving here so slow… and I said “Mariann, we are in Austria, here they don’t go 180….”

My mother would be proud on me when she sees this photo, me cooking This was during my visit in Budapest at Mariann’s place; which I can call my second home Because when I go to Budapest, I always stay at her place.

Three good friends, Aga from Poland, Bene from Italy and Mariana from Romania, at another agora, this time at the Agora in Enschede

 

I like the architecture of this building in Berlin, I was there around new year 2007, with a group of 11 people and 6 different nationalities… and this was not even an AEGEE event )

Doesn’t every woman wants this Ipod of Swarovsky )) I saw this in Milano.

I love cats, and this one was so sweet… we met at 2 Mai at the black sea of Romania.

 

The sunset at the North sea, I like this photo because of the tractor.

Another photo of a new visit to Berlin, which is one of my favorite cities in Europe (number three after Istanbul and Budapest).

The Holocaust monument in Berlin, an amazing place. I can advice everybody to go there when it’s evening/night, that gives a special feeling.

New year 2008/2009 in Heidelberg. The castle by night. Just 4 days before NYE, I was chatting with Laura about what to do with NYE, and spontanious we decided that I would take the train two nights later to celebrate NY in Heidelberg together with Laura, and that was the best choice!

Here the story ends of my Kyocera, after the trip to Heidelberg, I bought a new digital camera, the Nikon D80.

Upside Down

Rivers of affection
Turn into teardrops
Seconds become eternity

This rainfall does not break
Tiny drops of grief
Become oceans of agony

But even drowning
Won’t set me free
When love means sorrow

For yesterday
Is tomorrow
Today

- Werner Domroese -

Copyright (c) 2009.09.12 by Werner Domroese

Storm of Silence

Wedding Laura & Lucien

At the first day of my visit to Romania, I attented the wedding of two friends whom I met many years ago in AEGEE, Lucien (Rotterdam) & Laura (Cluj).

Here is an impression of the day.

 

Crazy days in Arieşeni

Here some photo’s of my crazy days in Arieşeni. We arrived Friday evening in the Apuseni Mountains, near the village Arieşeni in a wooden house, and some of us slept in a tent. That evening the master cooks made us a great BBQ, and after that we had a long lasting crazy party
Saturday we had a nice walk, a campfire, and again a marvelous sky with so many stars. I hope to be next time able to shoot the stars…

 

Photo’s visit Cluj-Napoca September 2009

After the wedding in Cluj, I started to discover the next days this new city in Romania. It’s the third biggest city of Romania. Many of my Romanian friends are living in this city; but in the past 8 years I didn’t managed to visit it.

It’s a cool city, and a lot to discover. These are some of the photo’s I took, before I went on in my journey in Romania. I was from 5th of September till the 7th in Cluj.

Photo’s Gala Utrecht 2009 – Second gallery

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Photo’s Gala Utrecht 2009

Vienna by my camera

ViennA

I’m in Vienna right now, and the weather is great so instead of staying inside I will go out!