feeling blue
The sun and the moon take turns in the sky
The days drift on by too soon
The meadows are kissed by a cool autumn mist
Far away now is june
(Summer is over – Dusty Springfield)
Archief voor augustus 2009
Holding on to that summery feeling
augustus 30, 2009
Sunflower
augustus 25, 2009
All I want is to be your sunflower
To watch over you from up high
When the wind blows
I will kiss you like sunshine
Stealing pieces from a perfect sky
(Sunflower by Tonic)
If u were a sailboat (Willemstad -Curaçao)
augustus 23, 2009
Wilhelminabrug Willemstad Curaçao
Otrabanda as seen from Punda
Martime Museum : Scharloo (Willemstad)
Maritime Museum Willemstad : Scharloo
Passenger's trunk
If you were a cowboy, I would trail you
If you were a piece of wood, I’d nail you to the floor
If you were a sailboat, I would sail you to the shore
If you were a river, I would swim you
If you were a house, I would live in you all my days
If you were a preacher, I’d begin to change my ways
Sometimes I believe in fate
but the chances we create
always seem to ring more true
you took a chance on loving me
I took a chance on loving you
If I was in jail I know you’d spring me
If I were a telephone you’d ring me all day long
If I was in pain I know you’d sing me soothing songs
Sometimes I believe in fate
but the chances we create
always seem to ring more true
you took a chance on loving me
I took a chance on loving you
If I was hungry you would feed me
if I was in darkness you would lead me to the light
If I was a book I know you’d read me every night
If you were a cowboy I would trail you
If you were a piece of wood I’d nail you to the floor
If you were a sailboat I would sail you to the shore
Katie Melua – If You Were a Sailboat
Reading more on the history of Willemstad , Curaçao : http://kaleidoscope.caribseek.com/Rene_Romer/Development_of_Willemstad/
Meyboom : Roue de la Fortune – Charles V – Vendelzwaaiers
augustus 17, 2009
Roue de la Fortune
Charles V and Les Milices communales – De Gemeentenaren
Vendelzwaaien
Meyboom 701° edition
augustus 15, 2009
Het planten van de meiboom of de vreugdeboom is een van de meest kenmerkende en oudste Brusselse volksevenementen. Het ontstaan van dit gebeuren moeten we zoeken in verschillende middeleeuwse legendes. De stoet vertrekt omstreeks 14u voor het Belgische Centrum van het Beeldverhaal, in de Zandstraat. De boom wordt meegedragen in de optocht naar de Grote Markt tussen de Brusselse reuzen, het “rad van fortuin” en een stoet ruiters onder aanvoering van Karel V. Daarna gaat het naar het kruispunt van de Zandstraat met de Broekstraat. De boom moet vóór 17u geplant worden! Het feest rond de meiboom gaat tot laat in de nacht verder. Dit beroemde evenement wordt al sinds 1213 georganiseerd, en herdenkt de Brusselse overwinning op de Leuvenaars.
The planting of the May tree or the tree of joy is one of the oldest and most typical events in Brussels. This festival has its roots in the many medieval legends from the olden days. The cortège leaves in front of the Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, rue des Sables, (around 2 pm). The tree is part of this cortège which includes the Giants of Brussels, the “Roue de la fortune” and a cavalcade headed by a Charles V. They march to the Grand Place and then return to the corner of the Rue des Sables with the Rue des Marais. The tree must be planted before 5 pm! The Meyboom festivities continue until late at night. This famous event has been organized since 1213 and celebrates the Brussels victory on the inhabitants of Louvain.
Issue de différentes légendes médiévales, la plantation de l’arbre de mai ou l’arbre de joie est une manifestation populaire bruxelloise des plus typiques et des plus anciennes (13ème siècle). Prenant son départ devant le Centre Belge de la Bande Dessinée, Rue des Sables (vers 14h00), l’arbre est amené en cortège entre les géants de Bruxelles, la “Roue de la Fortune” et une cavalcade conduite par Charles Quint vers la Grand Place, avant de revenir au coin de la Rue des Sables et de la Rue du Marais. Il doit y être planté avant 17h00 ! Les festivités se prolongent autour du Meyboom jusque tard dans la nuit.
Cette manifestation célèbre, depuis 1213, une victoire des Bruxellois sur les Louvanistes.
Madame Chapeau (Meyboom 701° edition)
augustus 13, 2009
Une madame Chapeau
Un bisou
Le plus beau de tous les chapeaux du monde,
C’est celui que port’ les Madames Chapeau.
J’ai coiffé d’autres chapeaux à la mode,
Mais ma tête ne coiff’ra plus que celui-là.
Je m’appelle Amélie Van Beneede,
Mais les crapuleux de ma stroïtje,
M’appelle, tous, Madame Chapeau,
Les asticots.
Je bois ma gueuze à l’aise sur une terrasse,
Jefke, mon lapin dans ma cabas,
Mon boustring, mon her’f et mes poireaux,
Mon chapeau
Goein zü geire ne match football zeen,
Union teige Daring en ik spring,
Daa’n derby mok ma zot, ik verlees
Meine kop
De schoienste van al d’hoetchjes
Van de weireld,
Es de hoed van ons tantje Amelie,
En daa’n hoed, just vanbove op eu fuur,
Es pesses en sneï boempanch op en taluur
Madame Chapeau 2009
