The Dutch decided to build a 30km long dike between the provinces of Friesland and Noord-Holland. There is a monument in the middle looking out over the lake that is no longer a sea.

Reflections of me in Museum Voorlinden in Wassenaar, the Netherlands

Taken from Wadden island Texel, the Netherlands

These ducks (real ones, unlike my rubber ones) were peacefully floating on the IJ-lake at IJburg, Amsterdam during a red sunrise.

My ducks did not like it as much

From Eye film museum, with amazing view on the IJ ![IMG_20170702_212429.jpg](

Despite any weather conditions (except thunderstorms, thunderstorms are dangerous), beachvolleyball tournaments are never cancelled. Last weekend I played on Ameland, one of the insanely beautiful Wadden

This picture I took in Istanbul, Turkey, on a near perfect evening in late spring. The sun had almost set, and the water fountain on the square in Sultanahmet between the Blue Mosque and this historical