Hotel New York


① memo 20181008 ~ Hotel New York ~ Diner at sunset last weekend in Hotel New York , set in the historic Holland Amerika Lijn building on the south bank of the Maas river in Rotterdam , Holland

Flood Aware


① memo 20181006 ~ Flood Aware ~ Repairing and strengthening the dikes started this week here around Alphen , some 20 feet (6 meter) below sea level , in the Rhine-Meuse river delta of Holland

Watertaxi Rotterdam


① memo 20181005 ~ Watertaxi Rotterdam ~ From the old harbor ‘Leuvehaven’ crossing the Maas river to Hotel New York in the Holland America Line building , Rotterdam , Holland

Quay between Mills #2 and #3


① memo 20180921 ~ Quay between Mills #2 and #3 ~ Walking the quay (dutch ‘kade’) along the waterway – close to the ‘siphon’ – between Mills #2 and #3 of the quartet of windmills together dewatering (regulate the water level of) the polder west of the village Aarlanderveen (Alphen) – draining the surplus of water into the Old Rhine – last sunday in the Green Heart of Holland .

Pearly Mussel Shell


① memo 20180918 ~ Pearly Mussel Shell ~ Pearly interior of freshwater mussel shell , last sunday , on the quay of a polder waterway near Alphen in the Green Heart of Holland .