Persoonlijke aantekeningen door Niek de Greef over cultuur, politiek, media en maatschappij. Doorleefde essays over het hedendaagse leven.

Private property

Can’t help myself finding this a funny a anthropological manifestation.

Frog / toad

Frog in windows till at Key Largo. Probably a Cuban tree frog.

Notice

I cannot get used to seeing this in a civilized country.

Hoos

Hoorn, Terschelling, a walking island and an ugly watch

What was a white beach in my youth – 45 years ago – now seems to become an illustration of a walking island.

I once lost one of the first digital watches here—a Trafalgar with red numerals that lit up only when you pressed a button. My father had gotten it from a colleague, who had gotten it as a business gift but thought the thing was too ugly—something like the one below. Very ugly indeed.