Celebrating fifty years of friendship

Looking back, what appealed to me in Charles Gesner van der Voort's life story were the foreign adventures, the friendships made and finding the love of his life abroad.

It reminded me of my adolescent years when I first traveled abroad without my parents. In 1986 and 1988 I made Interrail train tours through Europe with my friend since childhood, Han Dirk Hekking. It brought us to exotic places like Istanbul, in a time you made telephone calls home in phone booths and got your money cashing a cheque. In Greece I met my future wife (an intelligent woman, with beautiful eyes of Greek-Indian origin I often tell her, born from the people who traveled with Alexander the Great as far as India. You're a romantic fool she then tells me, which I have to admit...).

My friend became a journalist and redid our European train journey thirty years later in 2017, covering the current situation in each country visited for his newspaper. fd.nl/economie-politiek/1207892/spoor-door-europa-de-weg-...

It was a coincidence to find out that my friend was related to the Hekking family which lived in Shanghai and was interned in Chapei Civil Assembly Centre, where Charles Gesner van der Voort was also interned.

Photo by Pieter Lommerse

Taken in: Holland / North Holland / De Wallen (show map)

Taken on: July 1, 1986

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Camera: Canon EOS 550D, f/5.6, 1/100 sec, 55mm, ISO 400 (more info) (hide info)

Camera:	Canon EOS 550D
Lens:	EF-S18-55mm f/3.5-5.6 IS II
Aperture:	f/5.6
Exposure Time:	0.01 sec (1/100)
Focal Length:	55mm
ISO:	400
Exposure Bias:	0 EV
Flash:	Off, Did not fire
Exposure Program:	Not Defined
Exposure Mode:	Auto
Metering Mode:	Multi-segment
White Balance:	Auto
Color Space:	sRGB
Software:	Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 (Windows)
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