Our other expat friends gathered together at our house for dinner on Christmas Day
The hardest part about life as an expat is missing your family and friends, I don’t think there is an expat out there who can argue that… and in the age of Twitter, Facebook, and instant messengers, it’s [...]
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 [...]
I just saw the funniest video. It’s a parody of the X-Men films using a mixture of movies like Wolvrine, Max Payne, Batman Begins, The Hulk and Blade and then put together with bits from different Tim Allen films.
Generally I’m not a fan of spoofy movies that make fun of other shit. Scary Movie, [...]
Merry Christmas from Pixel and Bailey!
We have one year to try to teach Pixel to sit still before next year’s Christmas photos! Wish us luck, we’ll need it!
I would not want to be this guy!
Seriously… Christmas trees aren’t THAT expensive here that you have to steal one. Perhaps he feels the same as I do, that the Dutch Christmas trees are not worth buying. They are Charlie Brown Christmas Trees! They don’t even deserve to be called trees, they are Christmas Shrubs! [...]
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 [...]
It’s finally Christmas in the Soldaat household! It took me a little longer than normal but I finally got our tree up and decorations throughout the house. I haven’t taken photos of it all yet but Here’s a little something to start out.
The tree is up!
I love that we have gifts to put under [...]
For the past few days I’ve been busy setting up our Christmas tree and getting other Christmas decorations organized around the house. My friends make fun of me each year because it gets worse, and as each Christmas goes by, my house looks more and more like Santa’s workshop.
No matter how bad I ever get [...]
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 spin [...]
It was just a few days ago I was telling Xander how happy I was that I could actually have things around without cats knocking them down or breaking them. Spencer has been so good since he’s been here without Salem and I’ve noticed he’s a lot more careful about walking around things for some [...]
Holy crap, can you believe it?!! I remember when I started the countdown on my header, it was 68 days until Christmas and now it’s here!
This is where Xander and I will spend Christmas Eve – in front of the tree, behind our laptops, just the way we like it! Ok, I’m sure I’d probably [...]
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 to [...]
I have a bunch of stuff in my head but can’t really concentrate on one single thing. Welcome to my pity party…
I went to a party last weekend that had a lot of crying snot covered little kids in a small area. Having not purchased myself a plastic bubble yet, I got ANOTHER COLD. Yeah, [...]
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 [...]
Today while I was in town I took this photo of the Christmas decorations in the city center. Everywhere I turn there are people complaining about Christmas decorations and items being out already, but I honestly couldn’t be happier about it. I think here in the Netherlands we are slightly early as well because we [...]
No, unlike some places in Canada at the moment, it is not snowing in the Netherlands! As much as I love the snow, I’m glad… because I’m so not ready for it yet!
I am totally ready to do some Christmas crafting though!
A few months ago I ordered this cross stitch kit from sewandso.co.uk and have [...]
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! [...]
Every year my husband and I decide what we are going to get for Christmas. One year we tried doing the surprise gift thing and we didn’t like it much, we prefer our method of just saying what we want and going to get it. That way we are 100% sure we will like what [...]
If I didn’t know better I’d think there was a war taking place in Rotterdam these past few days. As we get closer to the New Year, more and more fireworks are being sold in the city, and more people are setting them off early. It starts in the early morning with the firecrackers and [...]
It’s hard to believe that Christmas is over already! I spent ages counting the days until it got here, and now it’s passed. Isn’t that always the way?
It was sort of weird on Christmas Eve because it didn’t really seem like Christmas at all. We ordered some Chinese food and I spent a while making [...]
Tunnels of Blood (The Saga of Darren Shan)
by Darren Shan
