zandvoort – Portret-en-zo | Fotografie https://portret-en-zo.nl Photography and more Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:04:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Stormy Beach https://portret-en-zo.nl/stormy-beach Tue, 24 Jan 2012 22:02:20 +0000 https://portret-en-zo.nl/?p=234 Just a quick post to show the difference from one lovely beach day to the next. Storm, huge waves, foam, sand in our eyes, mouth, hair and everywhere else.. It was not to be compared with a week ago when it was sunny – spring time. BUT these were beachy moments nonetheless! And, like the lone wanderer, kite and wind surfers, we enjoyed them tremendously.

 

]]> Beachy moments https://portret-en-zo.nl/beachy-moments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 22:42:07 +0000 https://portret-en-zo.nl/?p=216 What wonderful 2 days we had here in the Netherlands! And as it was the weekend, me and my family went to have a few beachy moments. The first of 2012. And so happy to live close to the sea and have those precious moments at the ready whenever I feel like having them. And living in the Netherlands, those ‘sunbaked’ beachy moments are rare – whether on cold days, or warm ones. It was a great cure against the ‘end-of-year’-blues I always suffer from in January. Having lost the Christmas tree for another 360some days always does that to me. The feeling of having lost something…. It takes a week or so and then I come to realize that there’s so much to look forward to in the upcoming year, and those beachy moments inspire the first of this year’s future memories: a weekend on the island Texel, skiing in Austria with my 6 and 3 year old, Philippine’s 7th birthday, Easter at my parents, Pierrick’s ever expanding vocabulary, dinners with friends, Josephine going to school when she turns 4 in May, Xavier’s birthday (alas, 42), Mother’s Day (and yes, the Father as well), ballet perfomance, summer holidays in spent in France (yes, another summer), me reaching the big 4 0, the biking evening at school, Pierrick’s 2nd birthday – by which he walks of course, Sinterklaas on the roof and then… Christmas … and much more.

But let us start at the beach, yesterday. Philippine was at a friend’s birthday party. So we went just the four of us (and about xx1000 other people, let’s not over-romantisize of course) for a stroll and a hot choclate, and apple crumble pie, and brownie at Tijn Akersloot and then back. Simple as that.

If you want to see more of our moments: Flickr Beach

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