One of the strangest days ever: April 30th 2009. What started out as a bright sunshiny happy day quickly turned into the sobering reality of somebody crazy enough to destroy innocent lives for a mindless attack on the royal family. Koninginnedag 2009 will forever be the one with a black lining. However, as one cannot send 150.000 people back home instantly: the show on the Museumplein simply just had to go on. A good show nonetheless but obviously most people lost a bit of their partymood (yours truly included)… A weird day indeed and therefore just a small gallery this time. Full series here (19 photo’s).

Ray & Anita from 2 Unlimited, performing live again after 13 years!

Lots of legs… who other than DJ Jean?

The closing tunes of DJ Tiesto.

Respect for the artists that did perform and ofcourse respect for those who felt it was impossible for them.

Milow…

Don’t you just love it when a season starts like this… arriving in snowy conditions with a new Landrover Freelander 2. Set on wintermode… no chains necessary while some dumbass 4×4 just slides off the road in front of you because he has shitty traction control and way too much speed.

Then, you wake up to a day of grey which is an excellent excuse for a decent sleep in. Nothing beats that after a day’s driving from Holland (when you just returned from an alomst continuous trip in 35 degree weather in Thailand and Egypt the weeks before). Coffee and croissants, one can survive on a diet like that!

But we all know that after grey come blue and we hit it right on in a surprisingly quiet Les 2 Alpes, France. A resort mostly know for it’s incredibly shitty lift system and long walks because crucial parts of the area go uphill instead of down.

Anyway, the Dutch opening has landed here so we have to make the best of it… not that hard with about 40cm fresh and a bluebird. You just forget the stress we had making these (a quiet Les 2 Alpes is still busy as hell so the good bits are tracked in nanoseconds) and enjoy. Hope we all have plenty of this in 2008, it’s looking good already!

Everybody, all the best wishes!
Rutger