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 [...]
We happened upon part of the parade to welcome Sinterklass to Haarlem City and we had no real idea what it was all about. We have since found that Sinterklaas arrives from Spain on a ship and as you can see from compilation of photos on the Youtube clip that in 2009 it was the [...]
We have been here now for nearly 14 months apart from my 1 month in NZ. It is truly autumn and the temperature outside was 4.6 this morning – I know this because Best Beloved bought a gadget while he was in Denmark which has a unit outside which tells us the outside temperature – [...]
Then believe it or not, Best Beloved and I had 12 marvellous days in Denmark, we went everywhere, we were taken everywhere, and had such a fantastic time. My Danish family were amazing and gave us a holiday to remember. Some of you will have heard the story that Best Beloved said 44 years ago [...]
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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Here we are in the Netherlands alone, together for New Years Eve 2008. Our first ever here, but our second in Europe as we spent New Years Eve in Switzerland in 2005 with our son. We haven’t even partaken of schnapps or herrings – all the normal things that we would be doing in New [...]
