Saturday – the Annual floral parade to Haarlem, from Noordwijk – so if you are in the Netherlands and close to Haarlem or anywhere on the route – check with your hotel concierge – because this a parade that should be missed. The theme this year is “Journey through Europe” This will be the 63rd [...]
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The law has been changed or is being changed to make it illegal to use a mobile phone in a car. Hey, that is good, isn’t it? But the mutterings are regarding mobile phone use, you guessed it, on bicycles. Why not make it illegal to use a mobile on a bicycle as well? Well [...]
We three (Best Beloved, son, and myself) took a ride on our bicycles to the beach at Parnassia on Saturday. Of course we rode into the wind going out and into the wind for most of the ride back home again. The starting point was Haarlem, out throught the Kennemer Dunes (Duinen) to the beach [...]
It was a beautiful day here in Haarlem and we just had to go for a bike ride. The weather report suggested rain – but it didn’t happen. Because we have not been on our bikes since the end of September, or maybe early October we decided on a short ride without any hills (there [...]
Expat Voices: 25/01/10 ConnieLene Johnston on living in the Netherlands Danish expat ConnieLene Johnston, who moved to the Netherlands from New Zealand, is ecstatic about Dutch bird life but cannot abide the way the Dutch simply park their bikes at any spot convenient to them. However, she has managed to join a group to continue [...]
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Want a ride? Table for 4 sir? Which bike is yours did you say?
I know those of you in my family who are in Denmark are negatively affected by how much snow you have had, as well as the experience of the Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen. I wonder if anyone wonders about global warming when they are in the midst of a great deal of snow and [...]
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We have had some of my Danish family here for a week – they stayed in Den Helder in the north of the Netherlands, and we visited them and they visited us here in Haarlem. We even took our bikes to Den Helder and across on the ferry to Texel for the day. That was [...]
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A day at the beach – a beautiful day at the beach. A day at the beach – a beautiful day at the beach. We rode our bikes out here, through the sand dunes (and it was very very hot), past all the animals which roam freely in the Kennemer Duinen (Dunes). On the way [...]
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