Yesterday Marissa, Marion and I visited Artis. Artis is a zoo located in the city of Amsterdam. The weather yesterday was extreme nice, which added greatly to the mood of our visit. Because of the good weather it was also quite busy at Artis, but luckily not too crowded. It was very nice to wander…
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As some may have noticed, my weblog has been for the last two days offline. Well, maybe offline is not completely correct. The site was running, but not in a proper way. Visitors only saw blanc pages. So what happened? For a certain update I wanted (and needed) to do on the weblog a newer…
About Ouzo & Vodka
Today two surprises concerning alcohol containing beverages, Ouzo & Vodka. When Mel stayed here last week, she brought us some bottles of Ouzo from Greece (Plomari Ouzo, a very good one, made on Lesvos). One evening our mood was really after some Ouzo. So we opened one of the bottles, but at that moment we…
Less as 200 days before we travel to Lesvos… and counting down :-)
In less as 200 days Marion and I travel to Lesvos again. I know, it is still quite some time, but it sounds so much better now it is below 200 days …. and it will sound even better when it is below 100 days! *smiles* Lesvos is an island that has so much to…
Today is the day of … so many celebrations!
Of course any one knows celebrations like Christmas, Easter and Halloween, to mention just a few. And I think also almost everyone will realise that there are many more celebrations, after all every country, culture and religion has its own celebrations. But there are many more celebrations. Some serious, some less serious. So lets have…
Looking back from begin 2017 to 2016
It is always good to have at the begin of a new year a moment to look back at the year that has passed by. So lets have a short look from 2017 to 2016 I think for me personally it was a relaxed year. Of course there were things that went not completely the…
Paprika powder from Hungary
Everybody likes it to get presents (at least I think so). And so today I was happy when I got those two nice little bags with paprika powder as present. Let start with some nice to know information of the paprika: Paprika powder is made of the fruit of the “Capsicum annuum”-plant. In some countries…
Suske and Wiske 337: Game of Drones
And then there is a new comic book of Suske and Wiske” (or Spike and Suzy as they are called in English) again. This comic book has the catching name “Game of Drones” and I think that everyone will see where this title is taken from (“Game of Thrones”, for those that didn’t know). This…
Heretic Christmas
Although “tradition” seems to proclaim that you should not decorate your house for Christmas while “Sinterklaas” (which is celebrated in The Netherlands among other countries) is still in the country, we will start with the Christmas decoration this weekend. I know that I have talked before about Christmas and its origin, but it is something…
A Fellowship of Friends
It seems that everyone agrees and “A Fellowship of Friends” will be the new name of the blog. Kudos to Mel and Marissa. Well done! A nice step forward in the new structure of this weblog with multiple authors. The “About Us”-page of The Fellowship of Friends. With this please the request to the authors…