Another birthday this week: Mira’s birthday, the last one of four while away from home. We have celebrated it nice and quietly with our own family. With a healthy start of the day by joining a 5 km run at 7.30 am in…

Holiday Season is over and we all picked up our regular activities. Most Christmas decorations have disappeared, only a few diehards keep their decorations (like a red nose of a reindear on the front of their car). Our favourite radio…

We hebben een heerlijke kerstvakantie samen met mijn zusje Inge, Mark, Luc, Tess en Merel. Het verslag van deze vakantie komt van Inge ….. Wat doe je als je zus een jaar in Amerika woont, en als daarmee het traditionele…

It was a busy week with lots of activities in the ‘boatyard’ behind our house. As of this week there are four boats docked. Jack has bought a nice DeFever motorboat and on Monday he brought it home from Ft…

It was an unusually cold week until Friday. People told us that it hasn’t been this cold for 10 years. Some Brazilian students of my English class put on really heavy winter clothing with two pairs of pants and a…

We were in Canada for a very nice long weekend visiting Teunis and his family in snowy weather. Quite a change in temperature from 29C with sun to -7C with snow. Oh well, we might as well have some real…

We hebben een leuke en gevulde week en dat redden we niet met één auto. Dat komt vooral doordat Marinthe nog een afwijkende schema op de tennisschool heeft met twee afspraken bij de fysio, en Toine twee dagen voor de…