Back in the Stone Age, uh, the very early 1960s, when I was just a tiny kid, I’d noticed that everybody in my family loved reading, which fascinated me a lot. Unfortunately, whenever I looked into those books, there were only meaningless scribbles, which at 4 years of age, I couldn’t read yet… However, there were also books and magazines with pictures, lots of them, and those were much more interesting. Despite the scribbles, those images were fascinating, and I could more or

Over the years, I moved from physical objects (photos, books, vinyl, CDs, etc.) more and more to digital versions (jpg, epub, pdf, mp3,...

Here follows a pictorial overview of my recent visit to the Netherlands, which turned out to be very enjoyable. Classic old farmhouse in...

Another reason I went to Amsterdam was to meet Bert, an old primary school friend. After a decent enough career as a teacher, Bert had...

This year’s annual Holland visit turned out to be very sunny, in fact it’s the warmest spring ever! As it was combined with an...

Towards the end of my stay in the Netherlands my sister suggested to go to a place I'd never been before in the South of Holland: the...

Exploring the countryside, old historic places and Kringloop s (popular Dutch 2nd hand stores), either with a family member or on my own...

One of my first trips I made with my sister during my annual trip tot he Netherlands was to the medieval town of Buren. With only just...

A musical interlude that became a Shakespearean tale of epic proportions, interspaced with critical comments by the Dishonorable Edward...

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away…., I grew up in a quaint village somewhere in the Dutch countryside called Nieuw Loosdrecht. At...