Yesterday, early evening, Friday 22nd October, we were in Amsterdam and were looking for and found the map shop – Pied a terre, to start finding maps for our proposed bike ride from the Netherlands to Switzerland. We found said shop. Said shop is huge with more maps than you could ever ever imagine exist [...]
Continue reading about What – No worthy International Rugby today!!
August 2010 is the 30th anniversary of Haarlem City Jazz. And we went last evening through the town square (Grote Markt), we went around the crowds which were gathered at the big stage listening to Jazz (Michiel Borstlap Band). We meandered through and around the throngs to our usual Thursday evening Jazz venue “In den [...]
Thank you for all the advice. We have set 4 traps (we do know it is not mouse friendly to do so – so do not remind us of that fact please), and we are pleased to report that no mouse has entered a trap since our first post on this matter – and even [...]
On Sunday we went for a short, meandering bike ride, ostensibly to pick blackberries between Haarlem and Sloterdijk. We were armed with containers for the blackberries, sandwiches and liquid – a couple of cans of beer and fruit juices. Yes we picked blackberries, Yes there were plenty, but we were wearing sandals and that is [...]
Not ice skaters – too warm for ice now, but roller skaters, roller bladers, inline skaters – I think those are all terms to cover the fast moving people we met on Nassaulaan this evening. We were minding our own business. We had been for a quiet walk around town for about an hour, across [...]
Continue reading about this evening in Haarlem – we met at least 1000 skaters
In New Zealand – people mess about in boats and then they take them out and sail, or row, drive or whatever else one does to move a boat on the waves. And of course it is usually on the ocean waves which makes it not messing about in boats. It might also be in [...]
Continue reading about We have been messing about in boats like Ratty in Wind in the Willows
Did you missed the Flower Parade? Watch the compilation video of TV West. It does take 25 minutes and is spoken in Dutch. But don’t let that put you off. You can just turn the sound down or off, So press the arrow on the screen and go. Get Flash to see this player. Flowers [...]
Continue reading about The Flower Parade 2010 – if you missed it
My Characters from Koninginnedag – Queens Day – Birthday Celebration There was much orange about as well as Red White and Blue. The Dutch flag flew with the pennant of the House of Orange flying proudly above it. Orange ballons, orange food, orange clothing and orange hats and some really interesting people in Orange.
Continue reading about It was Orange In Haarlem on April 30th 2010
Big Band on Bikes in Haarlem – orchestra on Bikes doesn’t sound right somehow. We had biked quietly to Hillegom in the late afternoon, and we watched the flower parade come through. We also had priviledged seats – seats that we had discovered when arrived in Hillegom – about 9.5 k’s from home in Haarlem. [...]
I wanted stationary photographs of the Viking Float – being a Viking, born in Denmark and because it was fantastic. But you do not always get what you want – and probably all Dutch people know that the whole parade does not end up in Haarlem for viewing because it is just too big. It [...]
