Ilanit's European Adventure 2002 a trilogy in four parts
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Birthday Bon Voyage Party, August 2002, Melanie, Meaghan, Inna and I. |
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School friends - Tammy, Alissa, Nicole and I at the party. |
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Dorothy, Peter, Amnon, Merryl, Cameron, my Dad and I at Rosati's, Melbourne. |
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Me and Rodney. |
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My Dad and I at the party. |
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Birthday Bon Voyage Mark II at Lotus Bar, Melbourne. Kelly, me and Meaghan. |
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Doing the tourist thing at the Zaanse Schans, Holland. |
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Who's a real Dutch girl, now? |
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Stand here and be intoxicated by the aroma from the Dutch cocoa factories across the water at the Zaanse Schans. |
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Big shoes to fill in Marken, Holland. |
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Federation of Damanhur, Valchiusella, Italy being watched over by the ruins of the ancient Roman lookout tower. |
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A Damanhurian building - artwork is changed periodically on all buildings to keep the atmosphere fresh and alive. |
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Mark is accompanied by a friendly plant. Or is it the other way around?! |
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When I gave the plant some (filtered) water, the electrical potential it produced and was heard by us as sound through a synthesizer, changed. When I gave it too much water, it scared me by going completely quiet. Then is started again. Phew! It had only stopped singing to drink! |
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Mark inspects an electric car at Damanhur. |
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The beautiful city of Turin, Italy. |
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A friendly squirrel in the grounds of Hampstead Heath, England. |
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The famous house from the movie Notting Hill in the grounds of Hampstead Heath, England. |
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Inside the grand manor house. |
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The monument to the Great Fire of London. |
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The spiral staircase inside the monument - the ultimate fitness challenge! 311 steps, phew... |
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The climb to the top was worth it for this view. |
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The Tower Bridge. |
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Setting my watch to Greenwich Mean Time. |
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Mark and I at Greenwich. A borough of Greater London. It is the site of the original Royal Observatory, through which passes the prime meridian, or longitude 0°. |
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I danced in two time zones at once! |
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Seeing stars at Greenwhich Observatory Museum. |
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Getting up to monkey business with Natalie and Patrick and their mum, Lise, my Cambridge cousins. |
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Boys will be boys! - My little cousins, Joshusa, Sasha and Greisha and I in London. |
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Me reading Muizen Verhalen, (Mice Stories) a favourite book of mine when I was little to my little cousin Leah in The Hague, Holland. |
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Leah kept me entertained with her antics. |
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Castle Overcinge's fortress gates, Havelte, Holland. |
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These doors will keep any uninvited guests away. |
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The yellow brick road had nothing on this place - magical paths in the woods surrounding Castle Overcinge. |
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The top right hand window was my room in the Castle. I should have grown my hair long and waited for my macrobiotic prince to come... |
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A girl could get used to a royal residence like this. |
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Ain't Mother Nature grand? |
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A sun-kissed canopy of trees line this picturesque avenue in the Overcinge woods. |
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Is this my knight in shining armour? He sure hung around a lot in the entrance hall of the castle. |
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The Kushi Institute Macrobiotic Art of Life School Level One class, Autumn 2002, Castle Overcinge, Holland. |
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Two of my roommates, Takako and Eman from Japan and Saudi Arabia and me on graduation night. |
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Eman and I had lots of fun in Havelte. |
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All the students of the Kushi Institute course on graduation night. |
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Mmm... our taste buds were well looked after during the courses. |
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I'll bet the locals don't see many tourists excitedly photographing the sign to this sleepy little town in Noord Brabant, Holland. But this isn't any old town - this is where I lived as a small child. Pronounced as Couwk. |
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Waiting for the Pont - ferry on the banks of the Maas River, Cuijk, Holland. |
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This is where we used to wait for St Nicholas. No sign of him today... |
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Mijnheer Van Duijnhoven and his daughter Marian - our former neighbours take a rest during our hike at the Mookerheide, Holland. Marian and her siblings used to babysit for me when I was a toddler. |
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The view of the old church in Cuijk from across the river Maas. |
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The playground from my childhood was still there - and the giant toadstools stood the test of time. |
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Can you see why I fell in love with Amsterdam? |
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The street where I stayed during my last month in Amsterdam. |
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Minervaplein, Amsterdam, around the corner from the apartment - perfect for all public transport connections. |
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A canal at dusk. |
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The world famous macrobiotic study centre in Amsterdam. |
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I always received a warm reception here. |
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With a selection like this, you can understand why I often dropped in for lunch. |
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The well stocked Kushi Institute store. |
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Cooking lessons from the queen of the kitchen - Wieke Nelissen. |
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Guasha tools from around the globe on display at the Guasha course in Rotterdam, Holland. |
To revisit any part of my journey:
Part 1: Schiphol
Part 2: Damanhur
Part 3: England
Part 4: Holland
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