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, [...]
Just so you know how it was last evening – as reported on Expatica. Traffic around Amsterdam and Haarlem in the province of North Holland was disrupted by heavy snowfall on Wednesday evening. The roads around the Dutch capital could not be gritted or cleared because council vehicles were stuck in traffic jams. Public transport [...]
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Right now I am discovering that even though there is a lot happening because of the immense amount of snow in Haarlem – there is a silence in an environment which is completely shrouded in snow. People are moving cars, bicycles are covered in snow, children are playing, the lights are all on and everything [...]
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 [...]
We spent Friday night on the botelboat in Maastricht which is permanently tied up in the very centre of the city – on the Maas River. The BotelBoat is a quite inexpensive (cheap) Bed & breakfast. We arrived around 5pm and it was snowing lightly and very very cold. We found our way to our [...]
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Is a place you should visit if you do ever have the opportunity. We have ridden our bikes here for coffee, or wine and toasties. Once in spring we sat outside near the waters edge, and the mother ducks and ducklings were of course very interested in case there was food. And there was of [...]
