BasBasBas.com

My first batch of Istanbul pictures is now online. Go check it out at Picasa.

addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.basbasbas.com%2Fblog%2F2008%2F09%2F02%2Fistanbul-pics-online%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘Istanbul+pics+online%21′;
addthis_pub = ”;

Rate this: 3.3

[Read more →]

A few years ago I was walking through my hometown Utrecht in The Netherlands quite bored, but I had to kill some time. For some reason while I was walking I looked up and suddenly found myself marvelling at a beauty I had never noticed before. I believe a lot of things in our surrounding [...]

[Read more →]

I took this shot during the Global Day of Action for Tibet on the Dam square in Amsterdam. Besides this being one of the few pictures that corresponded with the theme, I also feel quite strong about the Tibetan issue. If you haven’t already, check out the BBC documentary “Undercover in Tibet” (for free via [...]

[Read more →]

I took this picture during my trip to Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria. I was having dinner on a terrace and this stray dog kept begging people for food, shoving its head through the fence and putting it on people’s tables. First time I really saw a stray dog like that, but during my five month stay [...]

[Read more →]

Last Thursday we decided to go to a park near Apeldoorn, The Netherlands, called “Apenheul“. Literally, this means “Monkeyhill”, but I like to refer to it as Monkeyland. Before I continue and tell you about the monkeys, I’d like to direct your attention to the pictures above.
Yes, it is what it looks like. I ate [...]

[Read more →]

As I arrived in Sofia by bus from Macedonia around 8 in the morning, I was seriously considering skipping Sofia and just heading into the first bus to the Black Sea coast. I had told my girlfriend I’d be back in Sofia though and when I realized I’m too sweet to be a total dick, [...]

[Read more →]

That evening Mite and I decided to get our hair cut. For him it was his beardhair, for me it was the other headhair. In total, we got our whole heads cut. We walked a bit out of the town and into the hills. There were still a bunch of houses, but they got more [...]

[Read more →]

That evening we celebrated a birthday at a bar in town. Isabelle turned 20 and as Leni and her boyfriend Vlado joined us, they surprised her (and us) with cake and chocolate. We had a drink, chilled out and called it a night at an unridiculous hour for a change.
The next day I could sleep [...]

[Read more →]

The second day in Strumica I woke up with a bit of a hangover. We all got up and I went along with Mite to bring Isabella to the centre of his NGO where she would go to work with other American volunteers and then the plan for Mite and I was to go for [...]

[Read more →]

Bouwe, Jouke and I visited Brussels last Wednesday. Got up early, got into the train… and off we went. Not much to report. We basically walked around until our legs were hurting, sat down, had some Belgian beer and then continued walking again.
At the end of the day we visited Antwerp which was a very [...]

[Read more →]