Eyes on Leiden

Some impressions from the beautiful and nice Dutch city of Leiden:

A nice restaurant, close to the Singel

One of the remaining city gates

Leiden celebrating 3 October, the day Leiden defeated the Spanish invaders a couple of hundred of years ago.

One of the churches, seen from the castle of Leiden

Watertransportation in Leiden, a nice way to get around all the lovely canals

Street scene

The church in the pedestrian (Harlemmererstraat)

Statue of mayor van der Werff in the same park

Antje, a homeless person of Leiden (picture taken during an exhibition at the local paper Leidsch Dagblad)

Another church in Leiden

House

University of Leiden (Huizinga Building)

View of the Breetstraat with city hall in the background

Leiden during the winter

A joint in Leiden

Supermarket in Leiden

Leiden Central Station

Restaurant in Leiden

"Two generations on one bench"

Holland is beaten - Chaos in Germany's top news magazine

The unexpected happened: The top team in the beginning of the European Football Championship, the amazing Oranjes, are kicked out. This fact let to a lot of unhappy reactions in the country of cheese and wooden shoes. It feels like a whole new industry, the 'oranje fewer', vanished overnight. Cities are slowly peeling of their charming orange peel and showing their real face again.

But not only the Netherlands have difficulties to deal with this unexpected situation. One of Germany's most renowned news magazines of the ARD, "Tagesthemen", was not able to deal appropriately with the great revival of Germany's football diligence: This lead to the quaint mistake shown in the video below:



The news-team put a wrong German flag next to the Turkish flag. Even though the colours are chosen correctly the order is a product of creativity: RED - BLACK - GOLD.