Country: The Netherlands

What can I say…sometimes you just want to carry around an umbrella and wear a top hat.

Rotterdam – New Year’s Umbrella Party

Even dainty girls know how to throw down on New Year's. Lift up your skirt, embarrass your parents and lose your umbrella for the first time.

Rotterdam, The Netherlands – 2013 Trapped in a dark, cold and rainy place for New Year’s 2013, I decided to sleep through fireworks so I could wake up dreary and early to clean up the mess other creatures make in their celebratory behavior of another bleak year. After stepping out of the house a bird shit on my head before I had even walked 10 meters. Thankfully I was wearing a hood because I like pretending to be the Grim Reaper. While I was looking for people to brutally murder I found nothing but empty streets and broken umbrellas. Yeah, I know…slightly disturbing, but my mental state had eroded so much that I didn’t give a flip. Anyway, here’s the result of too much alcohol and a lack of respect for the environment.

Amsterdam: Noncultural Edition

Sometimes I think in a past life I was a thief or spy, mostly because I like street photography and the occasional action movie.

Amsterdam, The Netherlands – 2007 In 2006 I took a trip with my friend Sondra to visit her family in Bremen, Germany. From there we went on some excursions like this one, to the Amsterdam, an unknown but up-and-coming city…