CJ on December 1st, 2009

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 [...]

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CJ on August 20th, 2009

At Uncle Bruces – reminder to add stuff

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CJ on January 11th, 2009

We started gathering photographs and memories from family for a birthday book for him in November, and everyone was very helpful because of course our photographs etc are not all here in the Netherlands. Boxes of our personal things are at various homes in New Zealand still. We did not remember in the 8 months [...]

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CJ on December 31st, 2008

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 [...]

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