Boracay, May 2007

Friday, June 29, 2007

Peter Gabriel Revisited

Marieke and I had gone to Peter Gabriel's Growing Up tour back in 2003, and we absolutely loved it; one of the best - if not the best - I've ever seen. So when I saw that he was coming to Amsterdam to do a special concert (not tour related), I jumped on the occasion. We called Marieke's dad, my parents and Emiel and everybody was in! We picked up my mom and dad near Eltjo where they parked, and after a short stop at Emiel's place we all went down to cafe Gent aan de Schinkel where we ordered wine, cheese, salad, soup, bitterballen, the works! Harry and Bep joined us as well a little while later, and we managed to anchor ourselves well on the terrace, despite a few flooding attempts by the rain clouds above us. It helped we were the only ones (insane enough) to stay outside and there was a balcony, overgrown with grapevines, that covered just enough space for us to stay relatively dry.

We left Eltjo and Bep at the cafe (neither in for concerts in general) and made our way to a superb location for concerts: the Westergasfabriek. It's an old gas factory that's kept in perfect state; the architecture is typically Amsterdam and it is simply stunning! The concert was outside on the field behind the factory and it was brilliant. As the concert went on, the sun started to set behind the stage which made for a truly magical view. At one point we also had the sharpest rainbow I've ever seen in my life behind us. As location, weather and surroundings go, this was ace!

My heart going BOOM BOOM BOOM!

Oh by the way, these pictures were taken with my old camera. It's digital but the display
is broken and there is no 'looking glass'. So basically you have NO IDEA what kind of
picture you just took! Even more 'spontaneous' than the olden days!
(Also explains the weird shots )

Read the full story at the entry for June 2007 (either in recent or in the archives...)