pearwaldorf: donna noble looking up at something. light falls on her face from above (dw - eleven amy TARDIS)
[personal profile] pearwaldorf
I was transferring old correspondence from one box to another and I found a bunch of random shit from my trip to the Netherlands and Belgium in August 2008. So I scanned in the more amusing (to me) ephemera:


a picture of a man and a dog, with something about poop in the sack in Dutch

These were everywhere in Delft. I guess they really had a problem with people not curbing their dogs.

a postcard with the famous Shepard Fairey portrait of Barack Obama and a list of meeting times and locations

a picture of a boy holding up an Obama campaign sign, with a bunch of text about whether or not Obama will really change things, and a discussion of socialism

The Socialists took advantage of the worldwide interest in Obama to initiate discussions about real change and such. I think. My Dutch is really bad.

a photo of a list of beers on tap, flanked by statues of Jesus and an unknown saint

This was in a pile of promo postcards for Schiedam, a small town next to Rotterdam. They have a jenever museum there.

a picture of a schoolgirl with a bazooka on a promo postcard for a band called The Suicidal Birds

SO MANY WEIRD POSTCARDS IN ROTTERDAM. My favorites were the STD PSAs done in the style of old horror movie posters, very similar to this one. I thought I kept some, but apparently not.

Front of flyer promoting ABBA: The Story

inside of flyer promoting ABBA: The Story

Apparently they are very hard-up for entertainment in Antwerp.

Profile

pearwaldorf: donna noble looking up at something. light falls on her face from above (Default)
a very Nietzschean fish

July 2025

S M T W T F S
  12345
6789101112
13141516171819
2021222324 2526
2728293031  

Style Credit

Expand Cut Tags

No cut tags
Page generated Mar. 13th, 2026 10:21 am
Powered by Dreamwidth Studios