Photo 14
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 14
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 14
.. Shivering with excitement I lie in the wet tall grass at the edge of the orchard, the thin lines firmly pressed in my hands. It's midsummer, school holiday and I've got my first job. Above it all is the blue sky with slowly drifting, expanding and higher and higher climbing thunderclouds. There is
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 13
.. The similarity in driving experience is striking between the two Enrico Fumia designs, the Alfa GTV and the Maserati 3200. Their small windscreens forces the driver to look at the road in front of him, the only correct layout of the dashboard instruments: big tacho- and speedometers centrally behind the steering wheel, gauges
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 12
.. A few lines about what's bothering me. Your statement that jealousy is something unknown to you is the ultimate proof that you've got humor and self-mockery. Your usual unprofessional and thoughtless gossip has reached my acquaintances. Mrs. X. in the adorable provincial town of Z. told me unasked about your wronged nagging about
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 11
.. meanwhile it has been a while ago, about two and a half thousand years to be precise , when a longhaired Greek sage looked with both hands over his eyes at a Roman market which was loaded with luxury goods from all over the then known world, sighed deeply and concluded with relief
© Freddy Rikken 2016 Week 10
.. Nulla tenaci invia est via; for the persistent no road is impassable... The sturdy slogan of a tiny Dutch automobile factory which recently fled to England. The story;a planner from the East of Holland designed and tinkered nine years at a small twoseater in a shed next to his ancestral home and called