Marion suggested some weeks ago to go sometime to the city of Utrecht again. Utrecht is a beautiful city to have a good walk, visit some shops and enjoy some good food. I found this a very good idea and so we planned already a few weeks ago to go there today. As we do…
And so our weblog became a little more safe!
There was something that I planned already for a long time to do, move the weblog from http to HTTPS/SSL. HyperText Transfer Protocol, that is where HTTP stand for and it is the protocol that is used by a browser (Firefox, Chrome, Internet Explorer/Edge) to communicate with a web server. So basically this makes it…
My grandmother’s christmas cactus
The Christmas Cactus (or “Lidcactus” as it is called in Dutch) is a very popular plant for indoors. They belong to the genus Schlumbergera (part of the Cactaceae family). Its origin are the coastal mountains of Brazil. Cultivars of the this plant can have white, pink, yellow, orange, red or purple flowers. It is an…
We have added a map to our restaurant overview ;-).
As regular visitors of our weblog will know, there is an overview of restaurants of which consider they are good to exceptional (you can find that overview of Cafe’s and Dinners here. As Marion and Rob go often out for dinner during their weekends together, I guess you can say it so kind of hobby…
The Holiday Cup of Starbucks
Yesterday I was at the Central Station of Utrecht. There we decided to get some coffee at one of the Starbucks there. Every year Stabucks has a specially designed cup for the Holidays Season. So they have this year, a colourful and bright design I would say. I really like it, but again is not…
10 Years “dimrost.nl”
It almost slipped by without noticing it. By coincidence, I just saw it today: Our weblog on “dimrost.nl” was in October 10 years old! On 26 October 2007 the first article on this weblog was posted. And now we are more as 10 years further. I remember well how at first the weblog was titled…
A longing for Lesvos…
(Click on the image to zoom in) Rain, cold wind, temperatures that start to call to turn on the heating, all signs autumn is really arrived. And that is how it is here now: Wet, cold and wind. I was standing in front of a window looking outside, Marissa and Marion behind me sitting on…
“Suske & Wiske, Het Monamysterie”
Just as Rob I am a big fan of the comic series Suske & Wiske (or “Spyke & Suzy” as they are called in Britain or “Willy & Wanda” in the US), but unlike Rob I don’t collect the albums. So every time I see a new released album, I warn Rob not to buy…
“Buy a cow” (koopeenkoe.nl)
Last weekend Rob and I chatted through Skype.and the conversation turned to meat. Don’t be scared, this article will not be about vegetarianism. Not that anything is wrong with that, but Rob and I both can appreciate some good meat. But having said that we both also care about the well being of the animals….
“Koetjesrepen”
Yesterday, when I was doing my weekly shopping for groceries and alike, I suddenly saw something in the supermarket that surprised me: “Koetjesrepen”! I was convinced that they were not made and sold anymore. Turned out I was very wrong. But maybe let me first explain what “Koetjesrepen” are, because I assume it is something…