Most of the information in this site is presented in English. I am to lazy to create a fully bilingual site, so, if you don't like it: GO AWAY! If you do like the site (or don't and feel like complaining) you can drop me an email.

My latest deviantArt submissions:

You can find the rest of the gallery here...

More pictures.

Hetty and I visited Paris for a long weekend. The tow of us had a great time wandering around the city, enjoying the scenery, the food, the culture and the drinks. We also ended up shooting lots of piccies ...

Here are a whole lot of pictures taken while visiting the Keukenhof with friends...

This links to the long promised pictures of our US holiday. We visited the Delmarva region and Idaho...

The India slides, some five score of them, are still online...
I translated a small section of the travelogue into English, which can be found here...

More photo albums can be found here...

I managed to find a little time to scan some of the watercolours and ink drawings I made and put them online. It's a simple page and needs work, but you can at least view the images. ...

Most of the poems I have written between 1983 and 2001. The larger part of these are written in English, a few in Dutch. More will be added when they become available.
To go directly to the latest poem click on the pen...

This section contains some twenty years of travelogues and travel photography. They cover my trips to the Near and Middle East, India, China and the US East Coast. They are currently only available in Dutch. Click on the pen to go to the Travelogue page...

I still haven't put up the remaining Mexico pictures the first odd 100 you can find here...

Neither have I added the remaining Durham ones, but I did scan a hundred odd images of my trip to Syria and Jordan. You can have a peek at them here... The Friesland ones can be found here...
The Tales from the Middle Kingdom and Seven Days in Tibet travelogues are now online in their entirety. You can find the story and the images here...
The Egyptian travelogue, in English, is still not finished, but you can find the beginning here...
Some information on the ski resorts I've visited these past years has been added. It concerns resorts in Italy and France. To go directly to the ski resorts, click on the pen...
Around my birthday 2003, we spent a lovely week in France's Les Menuires for a bit of skiing. It had been a while for both of us, but we really enjoyed it and hope to go again some time. I put up some of the many pictures I took while we were there...

Between 1984 and 1991 I studied at Utrecht University, during those years I had close to a dozen field trips and excursion. Browsing through my slides, I decided to put up a few of these images and their related tales...

I love history, and I love playing games with an historical background, especially the city-planing, country-running type. Through these games I've become active on the Heaven Forums for Pharaoh (...), Caesar III (...) and recently, Zeus (...)
In the Caesar forum I took up a suggestion there to facilitate the making of maps. It basically involves HTML tables and pictures, so if you want to have a look, follow the pen...
Additionally I've been asked so many questions about sites with historical contents on the web, I thought I'd add a page with historical links. Again just follow the pen...

A friend of mine, by the name of Yolanda, suggested me recently to add my favourite recipes to my web site. There seem to be quite a few people out there who enjoy my cooking, even though some of my friends have only heard the rumours. They must hold some truth as most of my dinner guests come back for more and other spontaneously invite themselves for a trial dinner.
Maybe I'll add a fork, but for now, just follow the pen...

My Dad spent quite some time gathering information about our family tree, and has revised it since I first put it up. There are now more pictures of my early relatives as well. So far, he traced it back to the early 18th Century, a marriage in 1711. I suggested to put the results on the web and he accepted. So if you want to trace the surname 'van den Hurk', just follow the pen...
The layout of the genealogy section is a bit different from the rest of the site, as most of it was created automatically by the genealogy program he uses to store his data. More on this genealogy program can be found in the genealogy section itself.

If anybody wants to know about me, my parents, my kid brother, my girlfriend or any other of the not so sordid little details of my life...
Just click on the pen...
For links to some of my friends websites and some other sites I fancy, follow the pen...

Last updated: 2007.03.01

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