If you want to know more about the city Papendrecht where I live, you can visit The Papendrecht Portal www.papendrecht.net with lots of links to sites from Papendrecht. There also is the official page of the municipality of Papendrecht.

  For lots of information and links about the city Dordrecht where I work. There also is an official page of the municipality of Dordrecht.

is the place where you can find more information about the region I live.

is a new (1 March 2000) Dutch internet magazine with backgrounds of lifestyle, art & culture. It's made by some friends and colleagues of me in Dordrecht..... but they have to update more often...

Look at the site of the regional Police South-Holland South (in Dutch).

You also can take a look at the site of the Justice Department or the Court in Dordrecht (both in Dutch).

For more info about the traffic in this region you better watch the real-time updated site of the Rotterdam Traffic Information Centre before you step into your car (in Dutch). You have to know that 'file' in the Dutch language means 'traffic congestion'!

More about music groups from Dordrecht at my friend Ton van der Kolk site Stichting BCA or his yearly regional music festival Scheffer's Pop (was on 24 May 2001). Other big music festivals in Dordrecht are: Wantijpop and Rainbow Park.

Information for the young people from Dordrecht you find at the site of  SWD Jongeren.

Find all telephone numbers in Holland at PTT Telecom or look how to travel by Dutch public transport.

  Lots of pictures on this site are made by my friend and photographer Etienne Busink. Most of them are made in Dordrecht and were published in several newspapers, like the newspaper De Stem van Dordt where I worked for. Since the beginning of December 1998 he has his own home page at Fotopersburo Busink. It has lots of recent pictures. But beware, this site is still very under construction and Etienne is very busy....

Another friend and photographer for the daily newspaper De Dordtenaar also has his own home page at Cees Schilthuizen Home Page. Before it was fun to see how someone else used the same background and style as I do. Recently his 10 years old son Mark took over the site...

The best World Map of clickable webcams.

Look into people's homes with these webcams of Camarades.

The Digital Camera Network is another provider of webcams around the world.

  Lookup a satellite image of where you live at the new Microsoft service at TerraServer.

  Other satellite images & links can be found at the European Space Agency.

  You can read the latest news from Medan in Indonesia (hometown of my wife Susy) in the local newspaper Waspada in Indonesian language.

  Listen to Kiss FM, the local radio station of Medan with RealAudio.

  You can read the latest news from Indonesia in English or Dutch at the national daily Indonesian newspaper Kompas or the former illegal newspaper Tempo.

  The national news agency is Antara, that also has daily news in English.

More information in Dutch language and lots of links about Indonesia can be found at the Indisch Informatiepunt.

  You can lookup the weather at Sumatra with nice satellite images of the Sumatra and Singapore Meteorological Service Singapore.

  Of course there is CNN for the international news.

  At the Paperboy you can find lots of links to newspapers around the world.

The home of journalists from Holland (and a great source for Dutch journalists) is Villa Media made by the Dutch Federation of Journalists.

Gives you up to date newsflashes in Dutch, like over here:

Dutch quality newspapers are   ,   and

Read the Teletext of the Dutch national televion or visit the Dutch broadcasting companies.

Always the latest weather all over the world at The Weather Channel or WeatherPost.

From Weather Underground the latest weather in Rotterdam in Holland and in Medan in Indonesia:

For the weather in Holland you can look at KNMI ,De Weercourant or for the regional weather Ed Aldus.

Look what your money is worth today or in the past in another currency at the OANDA Classic 164 Currency Converter.

  Take a look at George W. Bush's White House Home Page.

  At the FBI site you can find America's Most Wanted.

  The CIA has lots of information about countries all over the world.

More about the Dutch government you can find by clicking here.

Amnesty International

This is a Dutch organisation against useless violence (isn't violence always useless?) in Dutch language.

Download the latest version of RealPlayer to make more fun of Internet

  Listen to the best listened regional news radio station Radio Rijnmond which also is available on internet in RealAudio or Windows Media Player (in Dutch). Since 1 november 1999 I work there as a journalist! You even can take a look on the unoficial site Radio Ratseflats and see surprising photos of the people working there, like me. Also some of my colleagues at Radio Rijnmond have their own home pages, so take a look at the sites of Cees den Bakker, Iwan Pronk, Jacco van Giessen, Ronald van Oudheusden, weatherman Ed Aldus or read what tvbabes.com has to say about newsreader Martine Boerkamp.

Find all kind of RealAudio radio stations all over the world at .

All the latest news of my favorite band at the official homepage of Simple Minds. Unfortunately this site is still under construction.

The official Yello homepage. With new soundbites!

The Cure official home page.

Echo & The Bunnymen official home page.

  Listen to the police radio in New York or Los Angeles (USA) with the Police Scanner

First program I can recommand to eveyone with Internet is ICQ (I Seek You). You can download it and use it for free! Therefore over 100 million people all over the world are using it. With ICQ you can see if Internet friends are online, you can send them (voice)messages, files and URL's, but you also can chat in real time and make connections with other programs. Look at the homepage of ICQ and you can learn all about it. When you have it installed you can find me at 1600149 and Susy at 20515576.

Tucows has lots of freeware and shareware.

Rocket Download is a very interesting site for downloading either.

If you have your own homepage, submit your page to lots of popular search engines for free, using one form!

has some nice cursors for your site.