We enjoyed the beautiful early morning light as we drove to Arnhem from Emmeloord. It turned into a beautiful, blue sky day! We have seen so many of these tree-lined lanes in Holland: Very pretty. I’m fairly sure this farm had thatched roofs: Then we arrived in Arnhem. We returned the car, and who should be waiting…
Category: The Netherlands
Last full day in Holland
Saturday in Holland was our day set aside for visiting folk in Twello, who we knew by email, but had not yet met in person (related to one of our websites). In the afternoon we went out for a walk with Hugo and Liz. We saw these huge pumpkins at the side of the path. Including all…
Living on the bottom of the sea…
Living on reclaimed land is not as bad as you might think. 🙂 In fact, it is very pretty! Aunt Janny took us to this amazing orchid house (and shop). We were quite at home there, just like being back in Kalimantan, complete with banana trees! If Aunt Joan was here, she’d be saying, “Inilah…
Exploring Amsterdam
For our first day in The Netherlands we had reserved tickets to see Anne Frank’s “house” in Amsterdam. Not really wanting to drive into Amsterdam itself, we made plans with Aunt Janny to drive to a stadium for parking just inside the ring road and then take the tram into the city. We saw lots…