Overst Wine

Following my recent cycle ride past the vineyards near Voerendaal, we managed to track down a couple of bottles of wine from these vines, produced

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Drielandenpunt

Today we went for a drive to Drielandenpunt, where Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands meet. I really wanted to climb up the observation tower on

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Nine Pictures

Digital photography has always fascinated me. I first bought a digital camera back in 2002 and my online gallery at SmugMug contains over 22600 images

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What Can You See?

When you look at the graphic on the left, what do you see? A stylised bicycle? My initials (C J H)? Both, neither? You’d be

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Header Image

This blog has a growing selection of header images, taken from my photograph galleries over on SmugMug. I’ve put the current selection all in one

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Summer Solstice

The view from our lounge ‘porthole’ window is constantly changing so I thought I would conduct a photographic exercise to capture the changing views. Yesterday

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European Elections

Feeling very ‘European’ today. Having registered with my local municipality back in March, I am entitled to vote in the Dutch elections to the European

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What’s in a name?

For as long as I can remember, probably early childhood, I have been known as ‘Dutch’ or ‘Dutchman’, hence the name of this blog. But

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Photographs

For many years now I’ve been using the SmugMug online photograph hosting platform, started by my motorcycling friend Chris MacAskill & his son Dan in

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Home Improvements

In 1982 I built my own house, in my spare time, while in full time employment as a police officer. Located in Northwood Green, Gloucestershire,

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