Day to Day Life

Today Xander had to go in to the office for a few minutes.  He is on a new project with the government in Dordrecht and the first day he was there he went to hunt and gather for lunch.  He phoned me telling me that there was a quilt shop around the corner, and a deli with import items up …

You know that saying ‘Stick a fork in me, because I’m done’?  Yeah, that was me yesterday afternoon. We went to a BBQ at a friend’s place in Beneden Leeuwen, which is about an hours drive from here.  It was a gathering of an expat group that I belong to online.  The same one that we met up with the …

Last week when I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal, I realized that it was the first time I was on a train here in the Netherlands in over 2 years.  Since we got our new car! I used to hate having to take public transit so much that when we got the car the long distance public …

I recently finished reading this book, and I loved it.   When I was in the south of France a few months ago my brother-in-law gave it to me to read because he loved it as well.  He had spent some time in South Africa and picked it up while he was there. I’m sure it brings back memories of things …

When I was out with my friend Penny the other day we were talking about Rotterdam and how it’s changed because of World War II, and it got me to thinking about how different things might be here had it all never happened. You see, during the war, the Nazis bombed the city center to bits.  They didn’t just blow …

Today I went to visit my friend Penny in Roosendaal.  She showed me around the city center of Roosendaal, including this really beautiful shopping area that serves as a walkway between one side of the city center and the other. It’s been renovated recently and it just looks so nice!  I have no idea how it looked before but it’s …

Over the last while we have been making some changes to our living room as we decided that it was time to retire our sofas and redecorate a bit.   It’s still a work in progress but I do have some photos.   I figure I’ll do it the same as our dining room and show how it’s changed over the years. …

Aaaah, it’s a wonderful thought, isn’t it?  I’ve bitched in the past about how much I hate mosquitoes but ugh, I’m fed up.   I have put screens on all our windows and doors but they still manage to get in somehow.  I think they have a secret breeding ground somewhere in my house.   I’m also convinced that the mosquitoes here …

That’s how long until the first day of Autumn.  It sounds like a long time but it’s not really, and we’ve not even had a summer yet (we didn’t last year either).   I want to go back to France, where it was warm and dry.   Barring my horrid sunburn, I loved it there… and I only got the burn because …

I’m ripping this post off from A Touch of Dutch where she also posted this video today (linked same video for Facebook notes cuz the stupid thing doesn’t import them properly).   It’s a video with just music and photos showing typisch Nederlands (Typical Dutch).   It shows what the Netherlands is mostly made up of and gives you non-Dutch / non-Netherlands-dwellers …

From DutchNews.nl: The police officer shot dead in Amstelveen on Wednesday night has been identified as 28-year-old Gabriëlle Cevat, news agency ANP said on Thursday. A 49-year-old man from Amsterdam has been arrested in connection with the shooting. Amsterdam police chief Bernard Welten said her station was extremely shocked by the death and sent his condolences to friends and family. …