I wondered down towards the Spaarne quite early. Sinterklaas was to arrive at 1pm by boat. I started from the house and went to the Spaarne via the Grote Markt where there was much activity and many Zwarte Pieten. And there were excited children everywhere. I then wandered down to the Spaarne to pick a [...]
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Not ice skaters – too warm for ice now, but roller skaters, roller bladers, inline skaters – I think those are all terms to cover the fast moving people we met on Nassaulaan this evening. We were minding our own business. We had been for a quiet walk around town for about an hour, across [...]
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It was a beautiful day here in Haarlem and we just had to go for a bike ride. The weather report suggested rain – but it didn’t happen. Because we have not been on our bikes since the end of September, or maybe early October we decided on a short ride without any hills (there [...]
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 – [...]
This was a big party weekend in Haarlem City. In the Grote Markt (the town square) there was huge medieval village market day with people in costumes, sideshows, stalls, spinning, and more – everything you have heard about that could expected at such a market day was there. Enough for another story. And down on [...]
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 [...]
