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 [...]
Our family came from Switzerland for Christmas and we were a little worried.
Not because our house is small, with one tiny bathroom on the ground floor.
Not because we have only one bedroom and they all had to sleep in the lounge on one fold out single bed, one 3 seater couch, and one [...]
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 that [...]
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 hard [...]
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We left by train for Munich on the Monday morning after the birthday garden party. Fortunately M had looked up the trip for us on the internet because we had missed the train we had intended to catch and were very surprised at all the changes that we had to make. That is, we had [...]
A Birthday in Untersiggenthal or was it a visit to Bad Säckingen?
We have just been to Switzerland for A’s (M’s partner) birthday, followed by a meandering through Germany.
The party was held in their garden, the weather was great and the garden looked absolutely lovely all set up for the day. Lots of tables, [...]
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Mostly by JJ
There are literally more bicycles than people in Amsterdam, as many people own two or three for different purposes.
They will have a light, fast bike for pleasure and a bike with kiddie carriers for taking their small children. Many bikes have two kiddie pillion seats complete with foot-rests, plus a [...]
JJ has been offered a job in the Netherlands and he has accepted it.
This is the man who didn’t want to travel, the one I have been giving heaps to for over 40 years . This is the man who said yes we would travel and live overseas prior to those wedding vows. This is [...]
