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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I had so many hand knitted scarves here, comes from being a crazy knitter – that I hung 5 outside our little steeg on the railing along side the road, and 2 on the bridge railing close by in early December when the weather turned and it became really really bitter and cold. I wondered [...]
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 [...]
It is a very wet day in Haarlem today and I have just watched a purple umbrella through the window. I am on the second floor of our very little house. The flash of purple just hit me and it made me get up to see just what had arrived. It was a lovely young [...]
Today we dressed up a little – well I put lipstick on and my reasonable black trousers instead of my bike riding gear and we rode on our bikes in weather that would have kept us close to home in New Zealand, to the Cafe Terras Fort Zuid at Spaarndam to listen to jazz played [...]
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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This is the News from the Netherlands We are fascinated with all the different varieties of birds that we have seen in the Netherlands. But the best two bird experiences have been the Swans on the Spaarne. I have already told the story of the swan that I met one freezing cold day by the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
