There are two questions I get asked every single time I’m talking to someone here in the Netherlands and tell them I’m from Canada… Do you find it very different here compared to where you come from? Which do you like better?
This has been the weekend from hell, seriously. I’m pretty sure that when I opened the door to our flat on Friday night that I walked through some sort of gateway that took me straight into Satan’s bathroom. Let me go back and tell a little more about what was going on… You may want [...]
As you can see, I’m back posting on my blog again. I’ve been back from France for a little over a week and am just settling back in and getting used to life here in Rotterdam again. Our holiday was fantastic and I will soon be bombarding you with photos of some of the things [...]
It’s true… look!! BEANS! Actual … beans!! I don’t believe it! I grew a real and honest to goodness vegetable! I am the queen of gardening! Seriously, if you could have seen the little dance I did around the balcony when I saw these babies. It went a little something like… I have beans, baby [...]
Last weekend Penny and I went to Blijdorp Zoo here in Rotterdam. I have been a few times before, but it really is one of those places you could visit again and again. It was hotter than hell so I actually got over the whole fat arms thing and wore a tank top in public. [...]
I have it, and I’m pretty sure it’s contagious because my husband appears to have caught it too. Don’t worry, we’re not sick. Well, not really… Do you remember four years ago when I watched my first World Cup match? True to my word I made a point of following the the World Cup from [...]
Well, it’s time for another installment of The Veggie Files. It’s been almost a month now and things are going great! The plants are growing very quickly and with the exception of my lettuce, the plants are getting big and strong. You can see in this photo that my bean plants (left) have grown big [...]
On June 12th Xander and I hopped in the car and headed off to the Hard Rock Cafe in Amsterdam for Bitchsterdam 2. For those of you wondering what Bitchsterdam is, it’s a gathering of bloggers, organized by DutchBitch, that has taken place two years in a row now when Dave from Blogography and Penelope [...]
One more thing I love about living in the Netherlands? How bright it stays at night during the spring and summer. The other night we were driving along the highway at 10:30pm and this is how bright it still was. This wasn’t a long exposure or anything done to make it seem brighter than it [...]
Saturday was beautiful and sunny, about 26 degrees and absolutely delightful when we went out for a bike ride. I was talking to my friend Laila and heard that she had spent the day at Scheveningen where everyone was already swimming! I couldn’t believe it, normally I wait until July before I head to the [...]
First, let me apologize if you came here looking for info on fishing in the Netherlands. I got squat.. nada. Other than this photo, which I took yesterday during a bike ride near Groene Kruisweg in the south of Rotterdam. I stopped to take a photo when I saw these people fishing, because it looked [...]
As I mentioned in my last Veggie Files update, patience is not something I have a large supply of. I got really tired of waiting for lettuce to show up in my lettuce pot, so I stuck a few seeds a bit more shallow in the pot with my cucumber, and whattya know! A few [...]
The map was created with my favorite handy dandy My Tracks application for Android. Today my husband and I went on a nice long bike ride around Rotterdam. He was finally over his throat infection, I was over my minor cold and the sun was shining again… it was time to get out there! Initially [...]
Today me (middle), Penny (right) and Laila (left) got up bright and early and went into the city center to see the new Sex and The City movie. We chose to go early on a Saturday so that they could arrange child care and we’d have time for lunch and shopping afterward. I won’t get [...]
A while back I got a package in the mail from Xander’s step-mother which included seeds for growing cucumber, lettuce and beans. Not just any old kind, but the urban kind for people like me without gardens, they can be grown on the balcony! By gardening idiots like me! Last week I dug out some [...]
A few weekends ago my husband came in from walking the dogs and said “You might want to grab your camera, there’s some kind of motorcycle thing going on across the street!”. The sound of motorcycles is nothing new here in Rotterdam, especially in this area. So I didn’t even notice the sounds of them [...]
Today I can mark another item off my 101 List! It was a beautifully sunny day in Rotterdam today and even though my husband is quite sick with a throat infection, that still couldn’t keep him down. Both of us were really keen to get out and do something to enjoy the nice weather so [...]
Fearless Fourteen
by Janet Evanovich
