Yay. Another New Year’s celebration at Roger’s place. First we had gourmetten (yummm – I highly recommend putting pineapple slices on the grill) and then we watched the Avengers movie which was a lot of fun. We finished about 10 minutes before midnight, and then rang in the New Year watching a music channel which had a clock and a countdown in the corner.
Here are some pictures that I took. Note as always that Netherlands is rather insane with its fireworks, but I always find it harder to get pictures of fireworks so I mostly focused on the things that were being burned…
“tidelijk buiten gebruik” – temporarily out of service. The black part is covering the slot where the mail usually goes, as the post office does not like people shoving lit fireworks into them. Mail resumes tomorrow on the 2nd.
The police were happy that the weather was a bit less than stellar – you can see how windy it is here, plus it was also raining off and on.
Some fireworks in the sky. As you can see, you can buy professional-ish fireworks, although not really the largest type.
Random person setting off a firework (and someone else with one in the background)
Awesome burning bench. Most of the photos I took were of things burning, but I decided to tone it down for this blog post. ;p
Leftovers. Just a small example of what the streets looked like in places.
Life in the Hague 