Diner

diner!

Wedding

The Invitation and a corsage.

Walking to the chapel.

 The rings

 The wedding cake.

And it was a good cake!

Honeymoon

More pictures might follow on a later moment.


You can find more information on Soetenso (the great cake (and chocolate) maker): Here!

"scherven brengen geluk"

There is a Dutch saying: "scherven brengen geluk", but I am not sure what kind of luck/happiness we should experience right now...

yes this is work....

yes this is work....

Enjoying the nice building of Amsterdam in the evening, unfortunately I had to skip the last Yushinkan iaido-training before the Haru seminar to attend this meeting.

You can find more information on the Hermitage here.

Haru seminar

Just came back from the Haru (spring) seminar. We really had good keiko and could enjoy the spring sun during the breaks.
Thanks to the good training-atmosphere we all could demonstrate nice waza to the sensei during the taikai.

Although I didn't meet my favorite opponent (and buddy) in the matches, I really enjoyed this taikai, as everybody was able to outperform themselves and rise to a new level.
And if I have met other people in the shiaijo, things might have turned out completely different, but now I am just grateful I can go to Japan.

Why was everybody looking at me?

Samurai with a broom!

good training

I had a very nice training in Eindhoven this weekend and it is always nice to see some familiar faces from outside my own dojo again.

You can find more information on the dojo: here

ps. I shamefully have to admit that I have to skip the training in my own dojo tonight.

Nihon Buyo

This is where we are going! I am very curious how it is going to be.

Special thanks to:gpag

other accessories

Talking about accessories made from money, I got these last week.

Don't put money on the bank, use it!

(by the way: great year!)

This is it...

Last week I posted: this well, this is the result!

Everybody knows this accessories? And a banker should use money as an accessory, right?

More information on Collar stay: here

guess what...

Does anybody have an idea what I am going to do here?



I'll give you a hint:

tatami

Tatami!

Some nice tatami for Elements, now patients and therapist can enjoy some more Japanese feeling and softness.

stonehenge

Ow and on our way to Plymouth we made a small detour to visit Stonehenge. Me and miss Red Riding Hood....

Town Miller Bakery

This weekend we went to the Bakery, really nice food and atmosphere. This is how I could have my breakfast every week!

If you would like to know more click: here

one more element

just added one more element to Elements: life! (well, okay, a plant)

website of Elements

dirty dozen

Just subscribed a dozen (yes! 12!) Yushinkan iaidoka for the open Dutch iaido championships.

I am so proud to be a part of such active dojo.