Hair today, gone tomorrow...

When Rianne, Rinyand I were walking back from my post-birthday high-tea in Bagels and Beans in Hilversum Riny decided she needed a photo of her hair as she's going to get it twisted into dreadlocks this week.

Rianne and Redmond at Sail

We had tickets for the premiere of the film 'Darwin's Verstekeling' (stowaway) which was really just a way of cobbling together lots of the bits Redmond O'Hanlon featured in during the VPRO serie about the journey that was made with the ship Stad Amsterdam following in the footsteps of the Beagle. Redmond his very self was there to see the film, along with Sarah Darwin and her children (who, it just now occurs to me, were remarkably well-behaved for the size of them).

Before the film there was a short concert with a full version of the theme music from the series alongside some other sea-themed pieces. And before the concert we had a brief look around the ship itself and saw some of the other tall ships which are docked in Amsterdam for the 5-yearly Sail festival. I'm glad we got there early as when we came out from the film it looked as if the whole world was walking from the station to the harbour.






























































Rianne had brought her copy of his first book along with her in the hope that he'd have a chance to sign it and during a pauze she did indeed get into conversation with him and he signed her 'Into the heart of Borneo' and my 'Trawler'.