Today, four years ago, I wrote the first post on this tumbelog. Since that first post I have daily searched for interesting links to post and please my readers. While I don't have many, everybody counts. It hasn't been possible to update the blog daily, however. So now and then several days of links piled up and I had to do some catching up. Anyway, let's see if I can do another year of Plurrrr.
In the morning Alice and I took a bus to Rijswijk in order to pay a visit to The International Mineral Fair. Esme wasn't feeling well and Adam didn't want to join us so we went together. One of the items Alice wanted to buy was a Himalayan salt lamp for her bedroom.
After a short walk from the bus stop we arrived at the Broodfabriek (the bread factory) where the fair was held. Since I had bought my tickets online we didn't have to stand in line to get in.
After walking and looking for a while Alice found a nice specimen of a mineral that she really wanted. We decided to look around a bit more and pick it up later. But we forgot to remember the code of the stand. Later on we were not able to find the stand back.
Besides minerals we also saw some very nice fossils. I took a photo of a Asaphus kowalewskii trilobite, Asery formation, Ordovician, Vilpovitsy Quarry, St. Petersburg, Russia (according to the label).
Alice and I also encountered a stand selling all kinds of shells, sea urchin (Echinoidea) skeletons, etc. But the majority of stands were selling minerals.
Another nice fossil I saw was of a Sclerocephalus sp., Permian, 280MYA, Rotliegend, Niederhausen, Germany (according to the label).
After a while we went back to the stand with the Himalayan salt lamps to pick up the one I had bought for Alice. Because it was quite heavy, a few kilograms, we had decided to pick it up later. Alice had also bought a small piece of amethyst, a flat piece of a mineral for massage, three bracelets, and a second hand book on minerals; the Dutch translation of "The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Minerals and Rocks" by Jiří Kouřimský.