\nBefore going to pick Lars up at Schiphol, I went to visit a place of quiet reflection, the monastery in Achel in Belgium:
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<\/p>\nAlternate 1<\/em> Alternate 2<\/em> Alternate 3<\/em> Alternate 4<\/em> Alternate 5<\/em> Alternate 6<\/em> Alternate 7<\/em> Alternate 8<\/em> Alternate 9<\/em> Alternate 10<\/em> Alternate 11<\/em> Alternate 12<\/em> Last weekend, Lars, my best friend from our high school days in Denmark, came to visit. Main Before going to pick Lars up at Schiphol, I went to visit a place of quiet reflection, the monastery in Achel in Belgium: The alternates: Alternate 1 A monk’s day starts early and is structured throughout: Alternate 2 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":60,"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\/82"}],"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=82"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/82\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/60"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fotocycle.dk\/paws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=82"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThe alternates<\/strong>:<\/p>\n
\nA monk’s day starts early and is structured throughout:
\n![\"0998\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt1.jpg\")
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\nBut the real reason I went to Achel was to prepare for my friend’s visit by stocking up on the excellent beer produced by the monks when they are not praying:
\n![\"0994\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt2.jpg\")
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\nOn Saturday, we went to Rotterdam to explore the city on foot. We are both photographers. I prefer people, especially girls, whether short or tall:
\n![\"1021\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt3.jpg\")
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\nRotterdam has a lot of striking architecture:
\n![\"1031\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt4.jpg\")
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\nMore Rotterdam architecture. Allegedly, the floors and walls in these apartments are straight:
\n![\"1041\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt5.jpg\")
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\nLars looking for a good view on one of Rotterdam’s many bridges:
\n![\"1037\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt6.jpg\")
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\nWe kept walking around, photographing this and that:
\n![\"1061\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt7.jpg\")
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\nOn Sunday, we decided to get out of the city and explore the Dutch countryside instead. We drove to Friesland, my favourite part of the Netherlands:
\n![\"1075\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt8.jpg\")
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\nFriesland exists mainly because of the many dikes, which also provide good vantage points:
\n![\"1079\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt9.jpg\")
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\nThere are idyllic sights like this all over the place:
\n![\"1103\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt10.jpg\")
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\nA cyclist in the landscape:
\n![\"1113\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt11.jpg\")
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\nFinally, we drove home over the outermost dike in the Netherlands, the Afsluitdijk. In the meantime, the weather changed and our summery April came to an end:
\n![\"1197\"](\"uploads\/2007\/18alt12.jpg\")
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