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Snow in the Morvan (Burgundy France), and not just a bit, but huge quantities

I have not written in months, but today I can not resist writing. There is so much snow in the Morvan (Burgundy, France) and it is so overwhelmingly beautiful t...

Auschwitz, will we ever learn?

Yesterday the participants of Steemfest 3 had the opportunity to visit Auschwitz/Birkenau. The German concentration camp in Poland. I read a post about this vis...

Nicaragua Crisis Update July 13th 2018

Things have become much more dangerous in Nicaragua over the past week. Our phones are being monitored as well as Facebook, Youtube, Whatsapp and Twitter. It do...

July 4, Independence Day in the US. We even celebrated this day in our hamlet in France. But the weather!!

Our American neighbors in our little hamlet in The Morvan (Burgundy, France) invited us for a hamburger dinner tonight, (what else would you eat on the fourth o...

The longest day and a amazing sunset in Burgundy France

Today, June 21, is the longest day. When I left the kitchen at 10 o'clock in the evening and went outside, it was still so light that I could read outside witho...

Sam and cars. A real love story!

Next Saturday my husband Sjoerd and I will return to France. We have been here in the Netherlands for more than 6 weeks and have taken care of Sam a lot. We enj...

Fun with toddler Sam, how we make memories for the future.

My daughter and her partner are still very busy with their new build house. Unfortunately, Murphies' law is still applicable and things go wrong. So Sjoerd, my ...

Today it is 78 years ago that the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands was bombed. The hole center of the city was destroyed.

Rotterdam today remembers the bombing of the city 78 years ago. Four days after the start of the Second World War, the Germans bombed the city of Rotterdam to f...

A delicious lunch with @exyle and his sister on Mother's Day

As a surprise, my daughter Eva and my son Mark (@exyle) invited me for a lunch on Mother's Day in a well-known fish restaurant in Rotterdam. My oldest son could...

What a joy! Grandson Sam and the tower ....

Our grandson Sam stays with my husband and me for two days. When he came, his mother brought him on her bike, he was thirsty. He drank his bottle as he stared a...

Typically Dutch! Clouds, water and ships and some rain of course!

I want to share with you some pictures I made yesterday. I think you can only take those in Holland. Yesterday, my husband and I had to go to a little town in t...

King's Day in the Netherlands, flea markets everywhere. Today you can buy almost everything on the streets.

.jpg) Sam with his crown for King's Day. Today, 27 April, it is King's Day in the Netherlands. The king and his family visit a city in the Netherlands and flea ...

Accidents do happen! But what a mess it can be. Or, why we treated ourselves to a delicious dinner.

Yesterday I wrote about our visit to the restaurant on the lake. I told you we thought we deserved it because of what happened that day. No one was hurt and we ...

A fantastic evening at a unique restaurant in the Morvan. It is situated at a beautiful lake and the food is delicious.

Just before we go back to the Netherlands, and leave the Morvan (Burgundy/France) for about 6 or 7 weeks, we decided to dine in one of our favorite restaurants ...

Can you believe it, this is also Rotterdam in the Netherlands

Here in the Morvan (Burgundy/France), the weather is nice, but fortunately, it is also nice in the Netherlands. Yesterday evening my friend of more than 40 year...

Thoughts about life on a sunny Sunday morning and wonderful music from Allegri

It is a sunny Sunday morning here in the Morvan (Burgundy/France). It is only nine in the morning and it is already warm outside. I go outside and make the pict...

Spring is in the air! There is a lot of work to do in our garden in France, but that's good for body and soul.

After a few beautiful days with a lot of sunshine, it is again raining a lot and if it isn't raining, like today, it is cloudy and colder than a few days ago. B...

Nature will soon wake up. Can nature be compared to a lifetime?

My husband and I decided to go to our house in the Morvan/Burgundy/France for a couple of weeks. My mother had moved to a rehabilitation clinic and is well look...

The Blockchain Memory Project. Why it is so wonderful and so special to be able to record your memories on the blockchain. Part 1

When I read @ericvancewalton's post about the Blockchain Memory Project, I thought: "he writes about something that was an important reason for me to take part ...

At last, an other post after 9 days. Life can be too busy. Fortunately, you never know in advance what life has in store for you.

It is as it is, when I am in Rotterdam I have a very busy life and almost no time to write a post. Pixabay, TeroVesalainen I try to read blogs from the people I...