Photos from March 2006

A laundromat with rows of stainless steel washing machines and dryers, one machine door open in the center.
While shopping in Antwerp this afternoon, we bumped into this old *wasserette* (laundromat). Very fifties, I might add.

· Miscellaneous

A person wearing dark socks stands on a digital scale showing a weight of 85.
Picture taken 24 hours before our wedding! In order to successfully debunk marital myths and common beliefs (read: weight gain after marriage) one needs to accurately register the past. Like that, we can fall back on traditional science and math in future.

· Miscellaneous

Clothes hanging on a line outside a building with green shutters and weathered walls.
Italians don't use cloth dryers. They just hang their clothes to dry in public. Combined with the 'terra cotta'-colored facades and the green shutters, it makes for a very characteristic view. I like this shot because every time I look at it, I discover interesting new details ...

· Tuscany

A store display with rows of designer sunglasses in various styles and colors neatly arranged on racks.
Italy is the land of designer sunglasses.

· Tuscany

A well-lit triangular piazza in Greve in Chianti at night, featuring an old church and parked cars.
The triangular piazza of Greve in Chianti and its 11th century church. For centuries this piazza has been used to run markets, serving nearby castle communities. Nowadays it still hosts a weekly market, and the morning after I took this picture, we attended such market ourselves. Only now they are selling dinosaurs and polli allo spiedo ...

· Tuscany