Want a ride? Table for 4 sir? Which bike is yours did you say?
Most of the time, the Netherlands has the most old-fart-friendly landscape on Earth. It’s flat, has wide footpaths and bicycle lanes, and easy access to everything urban and rural. And then sometimes it snows and freezes… My word, it is beautiful! And at first, the snow is easy walking. When you walk in fresh snow, [...]
I know we are besotted by the birds here in the Netherlands and my all time favourite is the Swan, but then it could be the Jay or even the Tits or the Robin or ???. Yes we are besotted. Today I am having a Jay experience I could never have imagined. We had considered [...]
We have had a white Christmas indeed, against all predictions. There had been the heaviest December snows for thirty years (sticking it right up the gravy-trainers and chicken-lickens in Copenhagen), but the snow ceased on 22 December and the snow became hard slippery melting ice over hard slippery cobblestones. Then came the rain. Morgan and [...]
As you may see on the news should Dutch weather news hit you in the South Pacific – that we have so much snow that the Dutch transport system has quietly ground to a halt. They manage their water better than they manage getting those of their 16,000,000 people, who are not using cars, bikes [...]
We know it is a bit dopey and all that and we know that many people are having to struggle with the winter conditions they are experiencing, but we are loving it. It snowed a great deal yesterday (Sunday), and everything is pristine white outside. It didn’t snow during the night that we were aware [...]
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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Morgan and his family are coming for Christmas – and that will be a challenge as there will be 4 adults and 2 teenage boys in a 1 bedroom house – that is a bedroom in the attic roof space, a lounge, and a kitchen / dining space. In preparation for the Christmas gathering we [...]
We are enjoying all things Dutch but sometimes we are reminded of our age like when we do crazy thing like ride into the wind to the beach about 5 k’s each way on a sealed bike track on sand dunes – up hill and down dale. The sandhills form the hill and dale – [...]
JJ is studying Dutch, and came home with a new word for us last week. It appears that your local cafe/bar/pub whatever you call it, is your “Stamcafe”. In the short time we have been here we have visited more than 3 times each “a local” and we have enjoyed them all. BUT our local [...]
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