Going to Cologne!
For the last number of years I’ve been dying to visit the Christmas markets in Germany. Since my husband was never too keen, it never really happened. This year I was talking to my friend Penny about it and we decided to book a trip for the two of us to go. On December 13th [...]
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Least Favorite Places - Huisartsenpost
If I were to make a list of my least favorite places to be here in the Netherlands, it would be here. The waiting room at our local huisartsenpost (kind of like outpatients, where you go outside of office hours, only … different). I took this photo with my mobile while sitting there being miserable [...]
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The Corpus Experience
In an earlier post I mentioned that while my parents were here we were going to Corpus, which I was pretty excited about. I’d first seen info on this place months ago and was keen to take my parents there because I thought it’d be really cool.
When you look at their website it gives [...]
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My Old Man
Today my crazy husband turned 34 years old. The other night in bed he threatened to divorce me because for some reason or another I thought he was going to turn 35. In my defense, he had me up talking for ages and I was so tired my eyes were starting [...]
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Diergaarde Blijdorp v2
While my parents were here we took them to the Rotterdam Zoo. I really love that place. I went there one other time with some girlfriends but even in the 1.5 years since I’ve been there, so much has changed.
My (sort of) favorite change is that they have POLAR BEARS. I was so excited I [...]
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Christmas in the Netherlands
It’s now only 29 (oops - Typo!) 69 days until Christmas and as my latest shopping excursions have shown, the Dutchies have their Christmas items out on the shelves already!
So far we’ve found Christmas items for sale at Blokker and Xenos, and our local Intratuin is currently about 50% through setting up their winter wonderland! [...]
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