The Trip that was: September 18, 2008/2012

 2008

A random collection of photos from Utrecht. 

This is one of my favorite sculptures, ever.  Just a random collection of logs, but he's so huge. And so happy. How did they manage to make it look that waywithout a face? He was just outside the entrance of the Centraal Museum, and then he wasn't. We've never seen him again. Dutchboy inquired last year at the museum, and they had no idea what we were talking about.  Sad, that he should be tossed away. 

If you like religious art, give Museum CatharijnCovent a try.  Personally, I enjoyed the old Convent building and the garden much more than the museum.  However, they had the CREEPIEST Pieta ever. 

And Dom Tower watches over all of it. 

On the way home that evening, we apparently decided to switch to the metro at Waterlooplein, and took a couple of night shots of the Blauwbrug and Magere Brug.

2014

This was something that both Dutchboy and I had been wanting to do for a long time: tour Jachthuis Sint Hubertus, the former country house of  Anton and Helene Kröller-Müller,. Helene Kröller-Müller, sought out famous Dutch architect, Hendrikus Petrus Berlage to design their country "hunting lodge".  It was a tough battle between Helene and Berlage, and it didn't end well. But for all their stubbornness and disagreements, they created a beautiful building.  Dutchboy and I are both huge fans of Berlage, who I would summarize as the Dutch equivalent of Frank Lloyd Wright, and the father of Modern Dutch architecture.  To say we were excited to get to take a tour would be an understatement! As you can see, I was thrilled to bits! As was Dutchboy's sister. 

The tile of Sint Hubertus and a stag. Hubertus is the patron saint of hunters.  The story is that Hubertus saw the vision of a crucifix in the antlers of a stag and heard a voice tell him to turn to the Lord or he would go to hell.  It was a moment of conversion for the young man.

Jachthuis Sint Hubertus in all it's glory! 

Tot Ziens!