{"id":35,"date":"2006-07-18T22:29:47","date_gmt":"2006-07-18T21:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk:80\/paws\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2007-01-13T07:28:01","modified_gmt":"2007-01-13T06:28:01","slug":"week-28","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/?page_id=35","title":{"rendered":"Week 28: File\/AMS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first words most foreigners learn in the Netherlands is <em>file<\/em>.  It means &#8220;queue&#8221; and is most often used to refer to a backup on the motorways. The Netherlands is a small, crowded country and to make matters worse, its motorways form an important part of the principal north-south routes across Europe, so there is a lot of transit traffic as well. It does not take much to create impressive tailbacks. On a bright and sunny Thursday morning I set off for work; a few km down the road I entered (or rather, tried to enter) the A27 motorway towards Utrecht and further south. But instead of zipping along, I found myself in this:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/28.jpg\" alt=\"5234\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A bit further ahead on the motorway there was construction, narrowing the 2 lanes of the motorway. And this morning a truck had a problem. Not even an accident, just a mechanical failure of some kind. The net result was that I spent 55 minutes on this on-ramp together with a few hundred of my closest friends \ud83d\ude09 There was not much to do except listen to the radio and take pictures of the other people caught in the misery:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/28alt1.jpg\" alt=\"5245\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>When I finally did get to the office, I had another photo opportunity. The diesel generator that is meant to power our data centre in the event of a power outage was undergoing periodic maintenance:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/28alt2.jpg\" alt=\"5253\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 24-70mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Later in the week, on Saturday, my 17-year old son went to Spain with three friends to spend a week partying and chasing English girls. At Schiphol airport, he allowed himself to be hugged goodbye by Mom, making sure that none of his friends were nearby:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/28alt3.jpg\" alt=\"5268\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 800)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>After dropping him off at the airport, we drove into Amsterdam to have dinner at the Hard Rock Cafe. It is not a great culinary experience, but my 12-year old daughter loves it, and we thought it appropriate to compensate her for staying home with us while her brother was having fun in Spain. Anyway, on a lovely evening like this, the Hard Rock Cafe is not a bad place:<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"uploads\/28alt4.jpg\" alt=\"5283\" \/><br \/>\n<em>(Canon 1D Mark II, 16-35mm L Canon, ISO 100)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the first words most foreigners learn in the Netherlands is file. It means &#8220;queue&#8221; and is most often used to refer to a backup on the motorways. The Netherlands is a small, crowded country and to make matters worse, its motorways form an important part of the principal north-south routes across Europe, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":61,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/61"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}