Tag: Netherlands

Wadden Port


Watching the Wadden Sea through a salty port window in the bar of the Friesland ferry travelling to the dutch Wadden island Terschelling, at sunset Dec. 2016. Wadden Port | 20201203 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Shut Off Dike


Motorway on the Afsluitdijk (English literally : Shut-off-dike) – filmed here in Dec. 2016. The dike runs between the North Holland province and the Friesland province in the Netherlands over a length of 20 miles (32 kilometres) with the Wadden Sea on the one side and the IJsselmeer lake on the other side – the fresh water lake that used to be the sea inlet Zuiderzee (English: Southern Sea) before the damming off in 1932 to protect the inland against flooding. Shut Off Dike | 20201202 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Sing Shoes Sweets Sinterklaas


Sinterklaas folklore St Nicolas – At bedtime Dutch children place their shoes before the chimney or the door (called ‘je schoen zetten’) – with carrots or apples for the horse of St Nicolas – and sing a lot of songs for St Nicolas and Black Pete, hoping to find some sweets in their shoe the next morning. Filmed Nov. 22nd 2018.
Sing Shoes Sweets Sinterklaas | 20201128 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Wadden Sea Sparkle #InverteFest

Wadden Sea Sparkle #InverteFest ~ Fireworks from Sea Sparkle – Noctiluca scintillans – in the port of the dutch Wadden Sea Vlieland, midnight July 21, 2018 . Wadden Sea Sparkle #InverteFest | 20200823 | Michel van der Burg | 1-memo•com

Deportation Train | 20200414 v20200415


Deportation Train
Deportation train departure 19 May 1944 at the dutch Westerbork transit camp filmed by Rudolf Breslauer. Shortly thereafter 20 km north in the dutch town Assen, train cars are added from the belgian Transport XXV (25) from transit camp Kazerne Dossin (Dossin barracks) in Mechelen, and the combined transport with Jews, Sinti and Roma, including Settela Steinbach, continues to the east …

Filmed by Rudolf Breslauer 19 May 1944 in Camp Westerbork, Netherlands. From Westerbork film montage reel 1 (RVD cat.nr. 02-1167-01) courtesy of Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid | OpenImages.
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Deportation Train | 20200414 v20200415 | Michel van der Burg | Settela•Com

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Fresh Air

Fresh Air
Breath of fresh air in Holland during self-isolation time , filmed at home in the garden yesterday (April 6) and produced April 7, 2020 for The One Minutes Collection. File name : Michel van der Burg_Fresh Air_2020_Netherlands .
Film : Fresh Air (20200407) Michel van der Burg | michelvanderburg.com | miracles.media