He was born on 11 April 1927 in Amsterdam. In 1997, he passed away when he was 70 years old… My father. So yes, today would have been his birthday. Like everyone, there were good times and bad moments in his life. Thankfully, we tend to forget about the bad times and remember the good…
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Haaksbergen
Haaksbergen is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands, in the province of Overijssel, in the Twente region. There are around 25.000 inhabitants. Haaksbergen covers 105.55 km² ground (of which water: 0.27 km²). First signs of people living in the area of Haaksbergen were found at the Buursebeek and are from around 800…
De Markt 2, Haaksbergen
Today Rob and I had lunch at Grand Café Central in the town of Haaksbergen. Their omelets and fried eggs are very good. We have there many times before. We had a very nice chat, but I noticed that both our eyes drifted to the building were once was café “De Markt 2”, which had…
“Recreatie-vijver” Haaksbergen
This weekend Marion and I made a nice walk at the large pond just outside Haaksbergen known as “De Recreatie-vijver” (The Recreation Pond). But folks from Haaksbergen will most likely know it better as “De Bergingsvijver” (The Storage Pond). This pond is artificial and was created in 1975. The goal of this pond was to…
Life is there to… see Haaksbergen again…
Although I was born in the city of Amsterdam, I spent the most of my live in a town called Haaksbergen. Haaksbergen is a town in the eastern part of the Netherlands. My parents moved from Amsterdam to Haaksbergen when I was very young (I was around one and a half years old). I have…
An old movie from 1972….
My brother sent me a link to an Youtube-movie of which he thought that would be nice for me to watch. And he was right… It was a movie from 1972 and it about the blood transfusion campaign of Dutch Red Cross Haaksbergen. In 1972 I was 9 years old. The nicest thing about the…
A view from the past…
I don’t know why, but today I looked up on Streetview of Google Maps the house in Haaksbergen where I lived for so many years. When you look up something on Streetview of Google Maps you expect to see the current situation, but that is of course impossible. But still it is very weird to…
“Twente Ballooning” and being in Haaksbergen again…
Last Friday, after work, I travelled towards the town of Oldenzaal. I took the afternoon off, so I would arrive in time. Main goal of this trip was to visit my mother, who stays in a home in Haaksbergen. As I wrote already before here on my blog, I am very worried about my mothers…
A sad job to do….
Those that know me or read here regular might know that the health of my mother got rather bad over the last years. Even so bad that she was not capable to care for herself anymore. Now more then a year ago she was taken into a nursing home. They wanted to try to teach…
A picture of old times…
The nice thing about packing all your stuff to move to another place is that you find all these things where you had no idea about that you (still) had it. So today we found a postcard of the block of flats where we used to live. This was the first home of our family…