egonwegh's VirtualTourist Home Page

Hi,

I'm Egon. I'm a librarian working for a university library in the Netherlands, and a freelance translator. As a translator I've been working behind my desk for agencies in India, Estonia, Egypt, Russia, China .... and in our spare time I like travelling a lot!

Been to (2006):
Heino, the Castle Nijenhuis, 18 February ; Planken Wambuis and the heath east of Ede, Netherlands, 12 March.

Indonesia, an exceptionally beautiful and interesting country! We visited Sumatra, Java and Bali from 5 May to 3 June.

Bike trip "Tiel to Eck en Wiel", 8 July

Bocholt and Gladbeck in Germany (NRW). We visited the Erlebnisbad Bahia near Bocholt and the amusement park Movie World close to Bottrop, 27 and 28 July.

Kleve and Kalkar just across the Dutch border in Germany. We walked a stretch of 18 or 19 kilometers on 29 October.

Been to (2007):
Germany - Münster, we spent three days in a hotel in Münster-Roxel and made excursions to Dörenthe, Tilbeck and the countryside west of Münster, the Castle Nordkirchen and the town of Münster itself - 7 to 10 March 2007

Germany - Thuringia. We'd been here before in 1997. Our hotel was on the edge of the Thuringian forest, in Friedrichroda. We revisited Eisenach and the Wartburg, Erfurt (where Jennie accompanied her choir at the opera house "Alte Oper") and Weimar - 19 to 22 April 2007.

Zutphen, where I visited the medieval Librije and the public library and went on a guided tour through the city centre - 26 April 2007.

Italy - Visited Florence, Siena, San Gimignano, Elba, Pisa, and Lake Garda in May and June.

Enschede, the Netherlands. I attended a summer school on copyright at University Twente, 18 to 20 June 2007 (one of my colleagues brought her camera, so you'll find her pictures here)

Berlin - we spent the Christmas holidays 2007 in Berlin. Check my Berlin page for our itinerary.

Been to (2008):
Gorinchem, we did a walk of 21 kilometers to Leerdam, 9 February

Norway - we went by boat (Kiel - Oslo) in June and took our car with us, visited a friend of ours who lives up north alongside a fjord and returned by car through Sweden, Denmark and Germany. A wonderful and very exciting trip!

France - walking in Auvergne in September.

Coming up (2009):
Texel - one of the islands in the Dutch Waddenzee. Believe it or not, we've never been there! Well, hopefully there will be time to put things right this year, we've booked a hotel now, and plan to stay on the island for a couple of days in March 2009. We plan to drive back home through Friesland and Overijssel to visit my in-laws. It will also be an excuse to take the A7 ("Afsluitdijk"!) from Wieringen to Kornwerderzand, another long-cherished wish.

My portrait as drawn by Roy, a couple of years ago.

My South Park self-portrait with grey hair, moustache and wearing my Superman outfit. This portrait was inspired by OlafS's page.

My digital lookalike relaxing in a lounge somewhere in Second Life. I joined in December 2007, this snapshot was taken on my very first day there. The picture on the wall (left) I recognised as Leonardo's 'Vitruvian Man' - it reminded me of our visit to Vinci in 2007, the painting of Paris on the right is by Caillebotte - I had to search the internet for that piece of information.

News:

21 November 2006, posted our 1,500th picture today - 'Guards of the Kraton' (on Yogyakarta page)
30 November 2006, 4,000 pageviews of this page. Thanks, everyone!
7 December 2006, incorporated a link to some additional film material - to be found on Google Video - on our St. Hilaire camp site page. Great live action it's not (it's just me sitting in front of our tent...)
21 March 2007: one of my pages finally made the grade (i.e. appears in the top 5), lo and behold, it's my Eastbourne page (ah, good old Eastbourne, I spent some time there as a foreign language student back in 2001 ...). Thanks, everyone!
11 April 2007: completed our Indonesia pages, added a total of 233 pictures.
17 October 2007: two more milestones: 5,000 pageviews of this page, and added our 2,000th picture: "Straelen market place and church"
18 September 2008: 6,000 pageviews of this page, and added our 2,200th picture: "Fredrikstad (Norway), Isegran Fort"