In short – no we are not We are not in good shape for our ride – but we are working on it. And we will have time to do it, the trip I mean, after all Best Beloved will have retired – (forced to retire, unheard of in New Zealand), so we have nowhere [...]
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Last winter Best Beloved waited by the door to take photos of me as I returned after being caught in a snow storm. This year I returned the favour. Best Beloved was out purchasing serious supplies – (I think wine), and returned in rather snowy conditions. The photo was taken on 4th December. The effect [...]
There you go – we have succumbed to the lure of the car. Tis out now – we have driven ourselves by car – not public transport and bicycles in the UK We arrived home Sunday night, 10th October rather late, after a 10 day journey from Haarlem by train, via Ghent in Belgium, on [...]
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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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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 [...]
This has been a hard subject to consider and then write about. But I must before the memories and the strength of my emotions and feelings are reduced. We decided to hook up with a tour guide, not being German speakers and also not being fully cognisant of the story of Dachau. We were instructed [...]
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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 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 [...]
Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site This camp served as a model for all later concentration camps and as a “school of violence” for the SS men under whose command it stood. In the twelve years of its existence over 200.000 persons from all over Europe were imprisoned here and in the numerous subsidary camps. 41.500 [...]
JJ was on the morning train to Maastricht and sent this email to Bruce in NZ. It is not quite verbatim. On this misty morning at 8:07 AM JJ having caught the 6:30 from Haarlem to Amsterdam, then boarded this one – the lizard train at 7:07 bound for Maastricht. I can see the fields [...]
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