This week the latest issue of the Holland SF magazine was placed in my mailbox (real mail, no email :P). It is issue 271, year 51, 2020/3. It is always very nice to read this magazine. Holland SF is the Magazine of the NCSF, Nederlands Contactcentrum voor Science Fiction (Dutch Science Fiction Society). This society…
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Sharing joyfully my life with Marion. Gaming. Cooking. Whisky. Greece/Lesbos. Photography. Computers. SF & Fantasy.
“Griesmeelpudding” (Semolina pudding)
I think that it is well known that I love to cook and try often new things. I am always interested in recipes from different parts of the world. But some times it is nice to look a little bit closer to home.Some days ago I was doing in the local supermarket and there I…
Schiermonnikoog
Luckily, after the cancelled holidays of this year, there was finally some time away for us. Not aboard, but to the island of Schiermonnikoog. Schiermonnikoog is one the islands north of the Dutch mainland. It is the smallest inhabited island of our country. There are living around 950 persons.“Oog” is another word for island, “Schier”…
As it seems, no holidays abroad this year…
Well, it seems definitive now: No holidays abroad this year. Both holidays that we had planned were cancelled. And yes, both cancellations are related to the Corona-virus…. We had two holidays planned for this year… A week to the city of Prague, the capital and largest city in the Czech Republic.And 3 weeks, as every…
Conspiracy theories
In this strange time that the world is captured by the Covid-19 virus, it seems that a certain group of people is more open to so called conspiracy theories.I wonder why. Maybe people are scared or they cannot follow what all is happening and want a for them to understand answer. That the G5 network…
Flights to Prague got cancelled today…
As many will know, Marion and I were planning to end of May for a week to Prague, where we would meet up with Mel. Mel her flight tickets were already cancelled last week and today our tickets got cancelled. This of course all because of the crisis around Covid-19 (commonly better known as the…
Klapados, another place to visit on Lesvos.
And we have set another place we would like to visit this year during our holiday to Lesvos: The town of Klapados ( Κλαπάδος ). We have visited Klapados shortly before, but we would like to go back there and have a better look around. So what makes Klapados such a special place that we…
What I always forget to mention about our Olive Oil
This week I was talking with a colleague about using olive oil for baking meat and fish, among other things. When I give someone an example of “our” olive oil, I tell not to use it for baking and frying, but now I realized that I hardly ever mentioned why not to do this. First…
The Oracle of Orpheus
As our holiday next year to Lesvos is planned, Mel (as she does every year) starts to send suggestions of places to visit. It is amazing, every year she surprises us with so many beautiful sites to see. There was one spot she was planning to show us this year, but didn’t as there is…
About Surgery and Greece…
Posted yesterday… “Okay, somewhere begin this afternoon I woke up from a very deep sleep. The temperature around me was very nice and I must have been dreaming about Greece, because I was convinced that I was in Greece… Until I felt a hand on my shoulder, I opened my eyes expecting to see a…