The view from my balcony last night as my neighbours brought in the New Year with a bang! Every year on New Years Eve I am on my balcony in hopes of getting some good firework photos. Back in 2007 I was bummed because it was raining on NYE so not as many people were [...]
Before Friday I had no idea that there was a Christmas Market at Kasteel Keukenhof, but thankfully DutchBitch not only told me about it but gave us her mother’s free pass to the grounds! So not only did we get in for free, but I finally got to meet her after years of reading each [...]
Back in May, my friend Penny got me a ticket to see P!NK for my birthday. I was SO excited but it seemed like it was ages away at the time. May to December, that’s a long time to wait! It got here in a flash though and I sat here yesterday saying “I can’t [...]
This past weekend I went on a sailing trip to Friesland with my photography club. It was organized by one of our members who is from there and used to work at a sailing club teaching lessons when he was younger. It was SO much fun! On Friday night we arrived in the village of [...]
Ok, so yesterday I wrote about a teacher who was canned from her job because she decided she didn’t want to shake hands with men anymore. Apparently, she made this decision for religious reasons and that didn’t really jive with the Dutch way of life. Now today I read this article over at DutchNews.nl about [...]
A recent article caught my eye about a teacher here in the Netherlands who faced losing her job because she decided, for religious reasons, that she didn’t want to shake hands with men anymore. Here is the article from DutchNews.nl: A school in Utrecht was within its rights to sack a female teacher who refused [...]
Sunday morning I woke up and my back was still killing me, but I couldn’t stand the thought of not making it to Keukenhof. The last time I was there was about 8 years ago and I was due for another visit. I packed my camera bag with painkillers and tried to take the Suck [...]
This weekend I went on my first outing with my new photo club. I was a bit nervous as I didn’t know anyone other than my friend Heather, but I liked the fact that it was a smaller gathering. I’m more comfortable in those kinds of situations and thought it would give me a good [...]
Well this is something I haven’t heard of happening since I’ve been living here. Yesterday at approximately 2:25pm in the afternoon tram 23, heading in direction Holy smashed full speed into the back of tram 21, which was standing still at the time. The crash took place in Rotterdam West in the Vierambachtsstraat near Mathenesserplein [...]
I have a new lady power tool! That’s what I call kitchen appliances because my excitement over a new blender or crock pot is pretty much equal to the joy my husband shows for a new saw or drill. It’s a slow cooker and I looooooove it! It’s the best thing that has ever happened [...]
This morning a plane crashed near Schipol airport in Amsterdam. It’s still breaking news so there isn’t a lot of info out yet. Here is what is known so far (from cnn.com): (CNN) — A Turkish airliner crashed at Amsterdam’s main airport about 10:40 a.m. Wednesday local time, Dutch airport officials said. Images from the [...]
OK, about 42,000 people have tagged me on Facebook to do this ‘25 things’ meme, so I’m gonna do it here and not tag anyone. If you read this and want to do it yourself, by all means – meme your little heart out. Since I’ve been in winter hibernation and feeling a little Fuck [...]
If you are a friend of mine on Facebook or have followed me on Twitter, you’re fully aware that my anxiety levels were through the roof this year during the holidays. Mainly between Christmas and New Years. Why? – Because of the firecrackers, bangers, fireworks and everything else that went off causing my dogs to [...]
Saturday myself and Penny were off to the Christmas market in Cologne, Germany. We’d been looking forward to going for weeks on end so we were both totally stoked. I think we weren’t really prepared for what was waiting for us though. We knew it was going to be busy, since it is getting closer [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
